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...computer. A contracted clerical worker assigned to the Tunnels, Bridges, and Terminals Department, she has worked at the Twin Towers just nine months. The job, mostly data entry, doesn't inspire her much, and she rarely talks about it at home. She also took the position illegally--her nonimmigrant visitor's visa expired in 2000, making her eligible for deportation--so she keeps a lot to herself. Many of her relatives will discover only today that she works at the Trade Center...
...question the roots of her faith, but America's military response to the New York City and Washington attacks made her profoundly disillusioned. "America wanted vengeance by killing Afghans," she says, her voice quavering at first--as if she is uncertain how forthright to be with an American visitor--then gaining strength and fluency. "That was wrong. Those Afghans were just as innocent as the poor people who died in the World Trade towers," she says...
Wilderness, in the elegant words of the 1964 U.S. Wilderness Act, is land "where man himself is a visitor and does not remain." Wilderness areas are critical for protecting biodiversity: tropical rain forests alone, which cover 6% of the planet's land area, are home to more than half of all known species. But many wild regions suffer from human encroachment, and species are vanishing at a rate not seen since the demise of the dinosaurs. Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson, along with Wired magazine founder Kevin Kelly and Stewart Brand, who set up the Whole Earth Catalog, among others...
...Hatsuyo. "To her, these boys were victims." Many of the families visiting Chiran this Aug. 15 heed her message, and express pity and sorrow rather than jingoistic pride. "I came because I wanted to know the truth," says Kazunori Matsuo, 38, who rode from Nagasaki on his motorbike. Another visitor, Kazuo Nakajima, 47, says his late father had hidden his military history. "I learned just yesterday," he says, "that my father had trained as a kamikaze pilot." An aunt and uncle broke the news; the following day, Nakajima decided to come to Chiran with his three kids. "My children need...
...life (Pittsburgh has the biggest). It is a forgotten land of mountains, storks, scarecrows and industrious people - a quarter of whom are unemployed - struggling to adjust to post-communist life. "It's so strange to find Warhol here, in the middle of this nowhere," says Heiko Schramm, 36, a visitor from Chemnitz, Germany...