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...9/11 the police and fire departments ran separate command centers, and communication was poor. The firefighters carried the same radios that had failed them in the 1993 bombing. At 10:04 a.m. on 9/11, after Tower Two had collapsed, a member of the New York Police Department's Aviation Unit warned that the top 15 floors of Tower One were "glowing red" and might collapse. Four minutes later, a helicopter pilot said he did not believe the tower would last much longer. Neither of these warnings made it to the fire chiefs. That tower collapsed...
...soldiers initially refused to obey after many called their rabbis on cell phones. Eventually, all but eight relented. These "refuseniks," as they were dubbed in the Israeli press, were slapped in the army prison for 14 to 28 days and some were banished from their élite combat unit...
What companies are involved? Since June, Mattel's Fisher-Price unit has recalled almost 1 million preschool toys, Hasbro has called back the same number of Easy-Bake Ovens, and RC2 Corp. has taken back 1.5 million Thomas & Friends train sets...
Bohdan Pomahac, the associate director of Brigham and Women’s burn unit and the head of the hospital’s face transplant program, told the Globe that he has performed dozens of facial surgeries using skin grafted from elsewhere on the patient’s body, leaving the patient still looking disfigured...
...most local and state cops in the rest of Mexico, drug kingpins can be attractive employers. Some San Pedro officers have been spotted moonlighting as security guards at Zetas' homes, police sources say. A rival cartel, the Sinaloa mafia, has countered by recruiting members of San Pedro's SWAT unit. More than 200 police officers in Monterrey and Nuevo León have been either arrested or investigated for involvement in organized crime this year. "We never imagined the penetration of drug trafficking in our society was this vast," says San Pedro's Marg?...