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Weapons makers weren't the only winners on Wall Street last week. Web and video-conferencing companies such as WebEx, Polycom and Raindance, expecting order books of potential new customers wary of employee travel, briefly became investor darlings. Cell-phone companies such as Nokia and Verizon also benefited from the wireless industry's sudden image overhaul; no longer the objects of universal derision, cell phones are now seen, even by Luddites, as essential tools in case of emergency...
Communications should also be back up quickly. Flying debris punched at least six big holes in Verizon's West Street telephone-switching station, which served the WTC, and the emergency power equipment in its basement was flooded from water-main breaks. Verizon worked over the weekend to bring the New York Stock Exchange back online, and the company hopes to provide at least interim service to most of the area by the end of the week. Gas lines, which pose the greatest risk, will take the longest to turn on, leaving the residents of neighboring Battery Park City homeless...
...bear." That sentiment was played out in miniature in the streets, where fleeing victims pulled the wounded to safety, and at every hospital, where the lines to give blood looped round and round the block. At the medical-supply companies, which sent supplies without being asked. At Verizon, where a worker threw on a New York fire department jacket to go save people. And then again and again all across the country, as people checked on those they loved to find out if they were safe and then looked for some way to help...
...earlier. At one point in a Wednesday conference call, according to a participant, BONY predicted it would have its communications up and running in a matter of hours - only to be proven wrong by day's end. In another call, a US official promised to push phone service provider Verizon to put the repair of BONY's communication lines at the top of its work list as an urgent national priority...
...bear." That sentiment was played out in miniature in the streets, where fleeing victims pulled the wounded to safety, and at every hospital, where the lines to give blood looped round and round the block. At the medical-supply companies, which sent supplies without being asked. At Verizon, where a worker threw on a New York fire department jacket to go save people. And then again and again all across the country, as people checked on those they loved to find out if they were safe and then looked for some way to help...