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...light, people react to the same events in opposite ways. Bars show CNN instead of ESPN because patrons want the latest news, but a family doctor in a Chicago suburb cancels her subscription to the New York Times because the relentless coverage of fear and threats was taking a toll on her. Peace Corps applications are up 72% in San Francisco, even as Harvard alums fight to restore ROTC, and 100 times as many Smith College students turn out to meet the CIA recruiter as did a decade ago. People decide to get in shape in case they have...
It’s not a very good joke—unfunny and insensitive, in light of the death toll from inhalation anthrax, four dead and counting. Black humor never inspires belly laughs, though; at best, it exacts sardonic smiles or nervous giggles. Its virtue lies elsewhere—in helping us say, with ironic wink and smile, what we cannot say in earnest...
Though the young Crimson squad had played with the more experienced Big Green for two periods, in the third period fatigue began to take its toll...
This routine was burdensome in many ways but especially in the toll it took on the Roberts' marriage of 33 years. "My wife and I started out working as a team," says Jeff, "but gradually she became more and more distant, a little more resentful of the parents and jealous of the time I spent with them." Doris, whose surviving parent--her mother--is still healthy, wishes she could have been more understanding. "Jeff's parents were wonderful people, and this is an obligation you feel in your heart," she says. "Even so, this is a phase of your marriage...
...addition to financial worries, the psychological toll of unemployment has set in. Elba Rodriguez, 52, a 25-year veteran cleaner at the Trade Center, wells up with tears when recounting her years on the 4:30 p.m.-to-12:30 a.m. shift, cheerfully doing the dirty work that many people shun. Rodriguez insists, "I cannot stay home. I want to go back to work. The World Trade Center was like my home. Everybody was nice...