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...When I woke that Tuesday morning, I had checked The New York Times online at about 9:30 a.m. The web page featured a little image of the Trade Towers in the upper right hand corner. A stripe of orange and black interrupted the otherwise calm, monolithic facade. A small caption said that a plane of unidentified size had crashed into one of the towers. Though I found this surprising, I figured it was another case of an inexperienced pilot losing control of a two-seater. I threw on some clothes and rushed to breakfast...
...When I woke up last Tuesday morning just in time to watch the second World Trade Center tower burst into flames, I was horrified, scared and most of all sad. But I wasn’t angry. I wasn’t angry when the Pentagon was hit, and I wasn’t angry when the two towers fell. I’m still not angry, even as they pull bodies from the rubble and the death toll continues to rise. Sorrow and grief are the only emotions I feel...
...every single parent is a woman. In Germany parents have been allowed shared custody of children after a divorce since 1998. If parents wish to have sole custody of a child they have to file a motion to have the situation altered. "One morning, five years ago, I woke up and I knew that I was ready to have a child," says a 38-year-old Dutch career guidance consultant, who requested that her name not be used. She is recalling that moment as she sits in her spacious second-floor apartment in Amsterdam, with her young son playing nearby...
...Easley woke up from his sweet dreams to find his arms pinned to his sides. During his first five months in office, the slowing economy opened up an $850 million budget shortfall; he had to spend the state's entire rainy-day fund to keep North Carolina running. Now Easley is urging the legislature to pass a $440 million tax increase to prevent another deficit next year...
ROBERT TOOLS woke up one day and discovered he had lost his heart. In its place was a buzzing 4-lb., grapefruit-size plastic-and-titanium lump. Nevertheless, Tools was happy to be able to wake up at all. His real heart had failed him, and he had become the first person to receive a fully contained mechanical heart. The retired tech librarian, 59, from Franklin, Ky., revealed his identity and addressed the media last week--two months after doctors had given him only 30 days to live. Tools opted to have the device, the AbioCor, implanted as part...