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Yesterday’s events were a devastating human tragedy. Two hijacked planes, together carrying more than 100 passengers, were crashed intentionally into each of the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Another crashed into the face of the Pentagon building in Washington, and a fourth went down 80 miles outside of Pittsburgh. Authorities have resisted reporting the number of possible victims, but it is likely to be in the tens of thousands—each a father or a mother, a friend or child...
Looking left, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center shone in the morning sun as jeweled scepters of New York City. The towers represented achievement, success and prosperity as they rose high into the city...
...York swallowed by water. In the model, tiny men in boats make their way across an expansive ocean spotted only by the tops of the city's tallest structures: the Chrysler Building, the Empire State Building and the monstrous heads of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers. Staring at these monstrous heads, I was reassured by the exhibit's promise that even when New York is gone, these buildings will remain tall—proof of the power and history of a fallen city...
Looking left on foggy days, there was nothing to be seen. A cloudy sky veiled downtown Manhattan, and the Twin Towers appeared to be gone. As if stolen, the magnificent architectural masterpieces were nowhere to be seen. On these mornings I wondered if Carmen Sandiego had plucked the towers out of the World Trade Center and carried them off to her secret hideout...
...other-worldly: "Like living through a disaster movie," said one New Yorker. To look south down 6th Avenue, one of those great Manhattan canyons, was to enter the realm of unreality. Great clouds of smoke, in a palette running from white, through gray, to black, billowed where the twin towers of the World Trade Center had stood. New Yorkers stood around, some weeping, others holding a hand over their mouth in the universal signal of shock. People pressed mobile phones to their ears, calling loved ones (though many of the mobile networks were overloaded.) For a while, all bridges...