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...summer prior to freshman year, students anxious to stand out among their illustrious peers zero in on a way to differentiate themselves: shopping. From Bed, Bath and Beyond to thrift shops, Crate and Barrel to Urban Outfitters, pre-frosh scour through dozens of packages of extra-long twin sheets...
...change in attitude was triggered not by Harvard’s twin towers down low, but an oft-injured guard in the backcourt...
...When the flames neared the dwelling of Sonya Graoso, a 44-year-old housewife, she tried to flee with her daughter and two-year-old twin granddaughters. A neighbor offered her a boat to get away?for a fee she couldn't afford. Another neighbor with a boat took pity on the family, but thieves stopped them and demanded loot. "My daughter had bought new shoes?the only pair she owns?last Christmas," says Graoso. "They were snatched from...
...U.S.S. Arizona memorial at Pearl Harbor, built atop the scarred hulk of the sunken warship. When he first conceived his master plan for the Trade Center site, the architect Daniel Libeskind intended to preserve the concrete containing walls, 70 ft. deep, that once held the underground foundations of the Twin Towers. Battered, fire-blasted but still standing, they told of both horror and strength. But to ensure their stability, new concrete now mostly covers over those walls...
...about 20 years ago by Sue Johnson, a professor of psychology at Ottawa University, and Les Greenberg, now a professor at York University in Canada. "In our culture, we have this funny thing where we see maturity as being independent, not needing other people," says Johnson. "But when the Twin Towers came down in New York, what did people around the world do? They held on to the people they were with, they phoned the person they depend upon the most...