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...major unknown factor remains how much Arafat is really going to toe the line of the international community on violence. His intentions could be seriously tested this weekend, because September 29th is the first anniversary of the current intifada. His ability to keep a lid on violence this weekend will therefore be a major test...
...Jersey, the authorities decontaminated us—we marched in front of them one by one, and they sprayed us with water from a hose. I didn’t feel too certain that I had been disinfected of any biological weapons, only soaked from head to toe and worried that I would catch a cold...
Almost instantly, a distant wail of sirens came from all directions, even as people poured from the building, even as a second plane bore down on lower Manhattan. Louis Garcia was among the first medics on the scene. "There were people running over to us burnt from head to toe. Their hair was burned off. There were compound fractures, arms and legs sticking out of the skin. One guy had no hair left on his head." Of the six patients in his first ambulance run, two died on the way to St. Vincent's Hospital...
...Almost instantly, a distant wail of sirens came from all directions, even as people poured from the building, even as a second plane bore down on lower Manhattan. Louis Garcia was among the first medics on the scene. "There were people running over to us burnt from head to toe. Their hair was burned off. There were compound fractures, arms and legs sticking out of the skin. One guy had no hair left on his head." Of the six patients in his first ambulance run, two died on the way to St. Vincent's Hospital...
...potter's wheel. "I didn't think I'd run for political office," she told TIME. "I grew up in a family that loved politics, but it was for the men, not the women." The women, she said, were "supposed to work hard." And unlike the boys, to toe the line. Her letters to her grandmother Rose came back full of corrections, written...