Word: subways
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...back from war," he says. His father would love to see him leave the big city and finish school closer to home. "He's aged five or six years since I dropped him off at that school," his mother says. "And he has no fear; he gets on the subway and goes all around the city. And I'm so on edge that every time he calls, I think something new has happened...
Before Sept. 11, there was March 20, 1995. On a sunny spring morning, five members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult entered the Tokyo subway and pierced plastic packs of liquefied sarin gas with their umbrella tips, leaving 12 people dead and thousands injured. Only two months before, more than 5,000 people were killed by an earthquake that shook the western port city of Kobe. "Some strange malaise, some bitter aftertaste lingers on," writes novelist Haruki Murakami in his account of the times, Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche. "We crane our necks and look around...
...year after the Tokyo subway attacks, Osaka-born Kenji Yanobe began creating his radiation-proof suits and cars, as well as traveling to nuclear test and accident sites such as Nevada and Chernobyl. "I'm not really a strong man mentally or physically," says the artist. "That's why I have to make something, a protective suit, because I'm really a coward, afraid of many things. I have to create something. I have to survive." For Sydney's Antenna of the World, 2001, Yanobe places a life-size figure of himself amid 400 miniature "Atom" figures, some of which...
...Chambers, 56, worked as an elevator starter, someone who monitored the cars--and helped people if they got stuck--for 27 years at the north tower of the World Trade Center. His station was on the 78th floor, and his instinct to help kicked in when he exited the subway in lower Manhattan on Sept. 11 and saw the gray ribbons of smoke streaming from the building. "I have to go in," he said to a friend. "I know people in there. Maybe I can help." Instead he soon found himself running from hell, trying to escape the crumbling tower...
Perhaps any pol would know to use a World Series game being played nine subway stops from the World Trade Center to teach a lesson in easy American resolve. Bush says that when he owned the Texas Rangers, the Yankees were the team that most often broke his heart. But he knew that this time the toss of a ball at the House that Ruth Built would mend more hearts than anything he could possibly...