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...used in the towers, which were completed in 1973, it may have been used elsewhere in the area. "We have not seen anything that would lead to long-term environmental or health problems," says EPA Administrator Christie Whitman, who toured the site Thursday. The bodies trapped in the twisted-steel mausoleum also pose no major health threat; undiseased bodies do not spread disease when they decompose...
...valuable, too close to the epicenter of capitalism to be abandoned. And the business of making money can be put off for only so long. So the lawyers and brokers and secretaries will go back to offices and trading floors and restaurants that are eerily close to the twisted-steel mausoleum. And they will look away whenever they can. They will come home this week with soot on their shoes, the earth and ash and dust of buildings that no longer exist...
...SPIELBERG, film director Every Sept. 11, at 8:45 a.m, the nation should pause for as many seconds as the number of souls who lost their lives--perhaps 5,000 seconds of silence, contemplation and prayer. We should erect memorials from some of the fragmented remains of masonry and steel. Schools should declare it World Tolerance Education...
...smell their hair, and in taxis we put our lives in the hands of other random strangers who may or may not speak our language or know where they're going. We walk down sidewalks insanely dense with people and data, sidestepping peddlers, beggars, dog turds and gaping steel holes that descend into basement caverns. We live in a teeming throng, exposed. And we like it that way. Because life in the open has two sides: we make ourselves vulnerable to ugliness and annoyance and danger because that's the price of remaining vulnerable to serendipity and beauty and even...
...Israelis do it? For one thing, El Al puts at least one armed, plainclothes sky marshal on all its flights. One such agent foiled a hijack attempt over Holland in 1970. During El Al flights, the cockpit door, made of reinforced steel strong enough to repel fire from a handgun, remains locked...