Word: subways
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...remember flying into New York at about this time last year, just before the Subway Series between the Mets and the Yanks was set to begin. I remember paying little attention to Lower Manhattan, instead zeroing in on Shea Stadium during the descent and feeling an indescribable surge of electricity and anticipation of the coming games...
After a visit to the dentist Saturday morning, I decide to take the train to City Hall and walk south to see how close to ground zero I can get. The subways are different. Last year at this time, the 4 trains were decorated with pinstripes, to match the orange and blue 7 trains that commemorated the Subway Series. Now, each train has little American flags on a couple of the cars. But they haven’t adjusted everything. There are still ads on the subway walls for courses at NYU, in which a happy, upwardly-mobile woman grins...
...Years Ago in TIME Despite the terrible threat of chemical and biological terrorism, it has never been very effectively accomplished. One exception was a horrifying event in Tokyo, when a nerve gas called SARIN, an agent originally used by the Nazis, was placed in five subway cars during rush hour, killing 12 and making thousands...
...subway poisoning seems to represent an aggressive, outward-reaching insanity ... It suggests a new type of evil, a terrorism whose demands are so personal and obscure that no one can understand them, let alone satisfy them...
...Saturday most of the patients who survived the subway gassing had left St. Luke's Hospital in central Tokyo and were improving steadily. But new cases keep streaming in. These patients' ailments are not physical but psychosomatic. Yet they come by the hundreds, and they truly believe they have been poisoned...