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...speed and creativity is the Red Cross. Besides providing food and shelter, the group has earmarked $100 million in cash grants for victims' families to cover living expenses for three months. The grants were suggested by bond-trading firm Cantor Fitzgerald, which lost some 730 employees when the Twin Towers collapsed. By Friday the Red Cross had given nearly $4 million to an initial group of 214 families, who got as much as $30,000 each. Families submit a one-page application, and the Red Cross checks employment and travel records to confirm that their loved ones were lost...
...bombing of the World Trade Center that spurred the Board of Trade and many other firms in and around the Twin Towers to better protect their employees and their data, and to provide for a quick resumption of business in the event of a crisis. And since last month's terror attacks on the Trade Center and the Pentagon, executives around the U.S. and the world have been taking action to reduce the risks to their employees and their businesses. Evacuation plans are being scrutinized, and corporate security consultants are being inundated with requests for "crisis-management" reviews...
...gallery that will never go away. Yahoo has launched a new category, "Firsthand Photos," in its directory of sites, and it has links to photos taken by ordinary citizens of Manhattan, Brooklyn and Hoboken, N.J. A woman from Hoboken, in fact, has a captivating series of pictures of the Twin Towers taken over a period of two years from her bedroom window. time.com/shutter...
Peter and Lourdes Brown, both 50, thought they had reached a healthy balance of limit setting and open dialogue with their 20-year-old twin daughters Michelle and Angela. "We have always had a very open approach to their sexuality. The bottom line is we don't want them to deny portions of their lives with us--we want to have real relationships with them, not artificial ones," says Peter. But artifice was exactly what was at play when one twin told the Browns that she was sleeping at a girlfriend's house, only to have Lourdes call and discover...
...mother said, 'I know they're doing this, and my daughter's protected.' She had really done well by taking care of things. It helped me out." Still, Goldstein and Schaper drew boundaries and told the couple they had to sleep in separate rooms, in part because Isaac's twin siblings, two years younger, said they were creeped out by the thought of their brother's coupling in the house. There are still some tensions to be worked out. It's important, though, that the lines of communication are open in all directions. When Goldstein phoned the girl's father...