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...former President and First Lady had been at the White House the night before the terrorists struck. They were flying to St. Paul, Minn., when the first news was flashed to their Secret Service detail. Their plane was diverted to Milwaukee, Wis., and they were rushed off to a motel beyond the city limits. They could do very little but follow events on television as the rest of the nation was doing. The grief, the horror of the atrocity, pervaded their small outpost. The President, flying out of Florida, put in a call to his father. "Where...
...York is not actually a Sex and the City episode. Mostly, singles look at each other across crowded rooms and sit in frozen wonder at the presumed conversational chasm between them. But with tragedy as a common bond, "What to Talk About" has not been a problem. "I was struck by how easily we could just jump into a conversation," says Allison Brown, 34, a lawyer who chatted up a stranger in a cafe the day after the disaster. "We started talking, and it was only about what had happened, but it was in the context of our personal lives...
...signs on the road to Larik, the family's ancestral village 250 km north of Karachi, suggest otherwise. Visiting for the first time in eight years, Attiya is struck by the number of jihad slogans scrawled on the roadside walls. They weren't there before, but Kashmiri militant groups now recruit fighters from all over Pakistan, even in the remotest areas. Sind province is known for its mellowness; Sufism, the most tolerant brand of Islam, flourishes in the numerous shrines. So it is jarring to see the invasion of graffiti along Sind's national highway, which cuts through vast fields...
Since the sheiks struck oil in 1966, they have driven Dubai toward the future with a high-octane fury somehow appropriate in a country sitting on one of the world's fuel tanks. In just over a generation, the area has grown from barren desert to lurid long-haul stopover to modern metropolis. Dubai used to be famous only for funneling bleary-eyed passengers through endless duty-free malls, a drab modern-day souk experience only slightly enlivened by some sensational bargains. But now, offering beaches with year-round sunshine, million-dollar horse races (see Detour) and the world...
...terror that has struck our country does not have to cripple it. Americans must not be afraid of returning to the streets of New York, Boston and other cities throughout the nation. As we donate blood and contribute to relief efforts, we are also needed to fill the theaters, the airplanes, the taxi cabs and the hotel rooms. We are the fabric that holds the nation and its economy together, and we must not be frayed by fear...