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...photograph fast became part of the redemptive fairy tale spun by Americans to make some rough sense of Sept. 11. The good guys like Mike saved the day, the evil ones were blotted out, and we all bought F.D.N.Y. HEROES caps and pinned red-white-and-blue ribbons to our lapels to celebrate the victory. But to those who lived that story and now rub up against its shards every day, resolution is nothing more than a mass-marketed myth. Their reality is raw and unending. Fire fighters and police brawl at ground zero. Tales of divorces spawned by Sept...
...MARKETING CAMPAIGN Love the Spielberg movie or hate it, this stealth campaign for the robo-Pinocchio story was popcorn entertainment itself. A network of websites spun a complex murder mystery, never mentioning the movie's plot or its main characters, but hardwiring curious surfers into AI's fictional future world...
...bottle was big enough to let him smell the goodies but small enough to keep him from reaching in with his tongue. He would hop around in circles, trying vainly to push his snout into the thing as it slid and spun away from...
...CARLOS SLIM built a business empire and the largest fortune in Latin America by turning around railroads, restaurant chains and retail outlets, mostly in his native Mexico. He also controls TELEFONOS DE MEXICO, the country's leading telecom, which last year spun off a wireless subsidiary. Slim, 61, rescued the sinking Internet service provider Prodigy in 1997, adding a Spanish interface and helping boost membership past 3 million from fewer than 200,000. Not bad for a guy who says he is afraid...
...Homespun, Ulrich studies what 11 objects from colonial everyday life have to say not only about their owners but also about the development of an American icon—the home-based rural economy in which virtuous women spun clothes and household linens while virtuous men tilled the soil. Each object—from an Indian basket dating from 1676 to an unfinished stocking of 1837—was specially chosen for its particular ability to flesh out the romanticized notion of “the age of homespun” that Horace Bushnell coined during the centennial celebration...