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...country's favor. Manufacturing and trade throughout Asia are perking up?economists are projecting Korea's 2002 gdp growth will near 6%, while Taiwan is expected to grow 3.7% and China as much as 8%. That in turn is spurring demand for Japanese parts and materials such as steel for Chinese factories...
...Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. It was also great theater. Crammed together into a custom-made, bunker-like courtroom, the accused seemed straight from a Hollywood casting call for Mob thugs: often unshaven, sweaty and in short-sleeved leisure shirts, the Mafia men pointed fingers and hollered threats from inside steel cages that ringed the back of the vast, underground trial chamber. Though prosecutors won more than 300 convictions by 1987, both Falcone and Borsellino eventually paid the ultimate price for their Maxi-Trial assault. Now, as Italy marks 10 years since the Mafia's brazen murders of Falcone (blown...
...shouting reassurances, hoping they might find a survivor, miraculously clinging to life in the midst of the rubble. Later, the last, dogged hope abandoned to the harsh realities of the site, it became a salvage job: Pull the wreckage apart, keep your mask on, pray none of the broken steel beams falls on you. This was a daily grind cloaked in mindfulness, punctuated by constant, grim reminders of death and loss, spent sifting through the wreckage in hopes of finding human remains...
...wonder at the cool efficiency of the cleanup effort. "It's amazing," we marvel to ourselves. "It's like a clean slate." The workers are carrying our demons for us, having removed them from our sight. They'll struggle to exorcise their memories of glass and steel and gore for longer than most of us can imagine. And for that alone, we owe these men and women our gratitude - as well as our compassion...
...project has Childs thinking big. Granting that very tall skyscrapers are out of fashion these days, isn't there still an impulse, he asks, to see something tall and triumphant at the site? So what about, say, a 70-story office tower with a sculptural steel lattice at the top that climbs to the 110-story height of the original Twin Towers? And what if it becomes more delicate as it rises, suggesting spirits released into...