Word: toweritis
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...Ouest, Waldy Malouf and Tom Valenti like to keep things simple--and expertly cooked. Following the attack on the World Trade Center, they felt compelled to turn that tried and true approach to a different sort of nourishment. Windows on the World, the renowned restaurant atop the north tower, was gone, and with it a staff of 73, from dishwashers and busboys to managers and accountants. "We knew that a lot of them were at the lower end of the pay scale," says Malouf. "And we knew immediately that there were families and children who were going to need some...
...document is a four-page set of instructions found in the baggage of terrorist ringleader Mohammed Atta, who allegedly piloted the plane that slammed into the World Trade Center’s north tower. It is a recipe for mass murder with prayers and passages of the Koran for each step along the way. This is the reality behind Sept. 11. These are the convictions that made men kill. These words—these deranged doctrines of death—are what the hijackers actually believed...
...junior faculty counter that FAS’s ivory tower traditionalism prevents its students and faculty from appreciating either the quality or the rigor of the interdisciplinary work done on JFK Street...
...from used reactor rods to contaminated clothing--over wide areas. Although the death toll wouldn't be great, the contamination and the public panic could be widespread. "The ultimate dirty bomb is a nuclear power reactor," says NCI's Leventhal. That someone will run a jet into a cooling tower isn't the only risk. Periodically the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has staged mock attacks against facilities, and the faux intruders won half the time--meaning they were in a position to cause severe damage. It's a target-rich environment: not only is the core vulnerable, but one NRC study...
...world of corporate finance and high-powered professiondom slowly encroaches upon our ivory tower, what is the role of the university—and its students—in maintaining the life of the mind? As an institution devoted to higher standards of learning, how do we keep from becoming an institution dedicated to higher standards of living? And finally, how do we apply the vision of Veritas to everyday practice—against the barrage of resume workshops, recruiting sessions and fellowship applications, how does a university keep its students engaged in the present—in a tireless...