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More than a thousand students signed up to participate in UHS’s blood drive, which kicked off yesterday...
...fear is bad for the economy, patriotism is good for it, and so is the sheer simplifying philosophics of survival. How many petty problems seem smaller now, how many reasons small fears, are now swept aside forever? After all this, Americans have a thousand reasons to be afraid, as many to be proud, and as many to breathe the air and resolve to personally make the American Way - part liberty, part shopping - bigger and stronger than ever...
...panic, or will we be brave? Once the dump trucks and bulldozers have cleared away the rubble and a thousand funeral Masses have been said, once the streets are swept clean of ash and glass and the stores and monuments and airports reopen, once we have begun to explain this to our children and to ourselves, what will we do? What else but build new cathedrals, and if they are bombed, build some more. Because the faith is in the act of building, not the building itself, and no amount of terror can keep us from scraping...
Outside the N.Y. Blood Center, the line of prospective donors stretched halfway down the block, around the corner, all the way to 66th Street and around that corner--more than a thousand, all told. Type O donors, the universal donors, were handed little yellow movie tickets and asked to form a separate line. Eventually some blood centers turned everyone else away, told them to come back another day. "It's just amazing," said nurse Anne Taylor, standing in the donors' line. "There'll be a three- or four-hour wait, and just look at all of these people standing here...
...that the Justice Department simply felt that its work was done. Like IBM in the '80s, Microsoft didn?t have to lose its antitrust case to be tamed by the protracted scrutiny - the company has had to be on its best behavior for the past five years while a thousand other tech flowers bloomed. By this summer, Bill Gates was introducing the company?s new operating system, Windows XP, with just the sort of concessions on bundling that the feds have been after...