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...Gasoline prices are down near a dollar a gallon and still getting lower, and besides - everybody and his brother just spent October propping up national retail sales by buying brand-new zero-interest-rate automobiles. To grandmother?s house we go. But drivers take shorter trips than flyers and riders, spend less on hotels and spend more time at rest stops and less at the mall. They go to less exotic places - Club Med is closing 15 locations due to a 20-percent bookings decline since the 11th. And how'd you like to be in the rental-car business...
...farther you got from ground zero last week, the less the elections seemed to be about terror. New Yorkers heeded Rudy Giuliani's advice, but 300 miles south, in Virginia--the state in which the Pentagon was attacked--nobody much cared when America's mayor appeared in a television commercial and declared, "If I were a Virginian, I would vote for Mark Earley." Giuliani's benediction couldn't help the hapless Republican gubernatorial candidate. Earley's opponent, Democratic businessman Mark Warner, made sure to pose with flags and fire fighters, but the race was about taxes, teachers' salaries, traffic congestion...
...thousand miles from ground zero, Houston Mayor Lee Brown tried to use the attack as a ticket to re-election. "Now is not the time for on-the-job training in the mayor's office," said Brown, who ran police departments in New York, Atlanta and Houston and served as Bill Clinton's drug czar before being elected mayor in 1997. But voters were more interested in knowing why he hadn't done more about gridlock and smog. Brown's credentials didn't keep him from a runoff with city councilman Orlando Sanchez, who was in rompers when Brown...
...grew up looking at the World Trade Center from my aunt’s apartment. It’s going to be so different now, but there’s a feeling of safeness just being with family,” said Hung, who plans on visiting Ground Zero with relatives...
...this is the “new normalcy,” I despise it and it makes me terrified. While I think we should be strong, move on, support each other and recognize the tremendous courage of the firefighters who died at Ground Zero, I think we need to confront our fear. We need to realize that this New Normalcy is unacceptable, and that our fear is not only inevitable, but that it is honest and healthy...