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...didn’t hate going to temple: I enjoyed sermons about how to live a better life, I felt uplifted by the stories, the songs, the togetherness. Along with my twin brother, I became a bat mitzvah. During my speech, I spoke proudly about my religion, while making a dig at Orthodox synagogues that didn’t allow women to read the Torah. That contrast summed...
...army officers, Abu Laith (the alias of a Baath Party member from Fallujah and former captain in Saddam's 6th Armored Division) found himself out of a job when the U.S. dissolved both the Baath Party and the Iraqi military in 2003. His army commission and party membership, formerly twin keys to success in the old Iraq, were now liabilities. For months, he stayed in his house, depressed. "Iraqis thought it was a great honor to be an officer in the army," he said. "I'd lost my honor...
Take Fritz Opel, 61, who is happily enjoying retirement with his wife Jeri, 52, and his stepson Jordan, 13. Opel's 35-year-old twin sons had long ago flown the coop, but downsizing was not in the cards. After retiring from his marketing-executive job, Opel wanted to enjoy the high life. So in 2003 he plunked down $1.7 million to build his dream home in San Diego, complete with a pool and three-tier waterfall, a wine cellar for a 600-bottle collection, a four-car garage, a 500-sq.-ft. kitchen and five bathrooms--all just...
...other skyscraper fires, staying inside might have been exactly the right thing to do. In the case of the Twin Towers, at least 135 people who theoretically had access to open stairwells--and enough time to use them--never made it out, the report found.Since the early days of the atom bomb, scientists have been trying to understand how to move masses of people out of danger. Engineers have fashioned glowing exit signs, sprinklers and less flammable materials. Elaborate computer models can simulate the emptying of Miami or the Sears Tower, showing thousands of colored dots streaming for safety like...
...national sales team. Dads are also getting in on the act. Mike Gatten projects up to $3 million in sales this year for his Miracle Blanket, designed in desperation to calm a colicky infant. Rosie Herman, of Tomball, Texas, worked 15 years as a manicurist before giving birth to twin girls and then noticing that the tasks of motherhood were drying out her hands (imagine changing a dozen diapers a day). She cooked up an exfoliating, moisturizing formula in her kitchen, then juggled eight credit cards and even resorted to bartering to get her One Minute Manicure business...