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...exponential geometry to trauma. Lose a single person in an accident, and the lives of five or six more people--family, friends--are rocked. Each of those five or six lives may touch five or six more, and those still more. If the original death toll is higher--say, 168 in a truck-bomb blast--the shock waves may extend across an entire state. And when the number of fatalities reaches the thousands, the very mental health of the nation can be shaken...
...other parts of the country may be moving close enough to glimpse it. The repeated slow-motion images of the towers swooning and buckling, the shots of victims tarred and feathered with blood and dust, the very ordinariness of the workday exploding into a doomsday may exact a psychological toll as people wonder whether the same hell will be visited on them...
...wasn’t angry. I wasn’t angry when the Pentagon was hit, and I wasn’t angry when the two towers fell. I’m still not angry, even as they pull bodies from the rubble and the death toll continues to rise. Sorrow and grief are the only emotions I feel...
...results of the family meeting were immediate. My children had always rolled their eyes when I suggested that not every single light bulb had to be turned on in an empty room; now they could clearly see the toll that utilities were taking on our monthly budget...
...Taliban three days to hand over fugitive terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden. This after a grim weekend of dimmed hopes in New York City as rescue workers at the World Trade Center site marked their fifth day without finding a survivor in the wreckage. Pentagon sources put the death toll there at 188, including the 64 passengers aboard American flight 77. Authorities there say rebuilding the Pentagon could take years...