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...live in New York City. Have you seen Ground Zero since Sept. 11? Could you describe it from the eyes of a writer...
...Better Generation. With the collapse of the World Trade Center, the curtain closed on the decade of wretched excess heralded when Wall Street's Gordon Gekko proclaimed, "Greed is good." When a plea went out on Sept. 12 that the rescue workers needed socks, thousands of pairs flooded ground zero. Word came to send money instead. The money poured in, but the socks kept coming. The task in this new decade is to find a place for the socks we have to give...
...some Americans back onto planes and into casinos until they feel their lives are secure. And no one knows when that day will come, in a war against an invisible enemy with a front line that could be in Afghanistan--or Albuquerque. "Tourism and travel are at financial ground zero," says Andrew Hodge, chief U.S. economist at the forecasting firm DRI-WEFA, who figures absent foreign tourists alone could account for around $10 billion in losses in the fourth quarter...
...under and through every 18-wheeler that is trying to get into Manhattan. But it was a comfort in the midtown crush, finally, to hear a driver yell, "Hey, move the car, jerk!" and sense the return of vehicular hostility; that felt like normal too. Miss America visited ground zero, as did Paul Newman and John Travolta and the cast of The Sopranos. The war zone is a shrine, and a circus. The funerals are coming faster now, 16 on Saturday alone; the mayor tried to send an official to each one. Elsewhere, friends get together for dinner and play...
...Better Generation. With the collapse of the World Trade Center, the curtain closed on the decade of wretched excess heralded when Wall Street's Gordon Gekko proclaimed, "Greed is good." When a plea went out on Sept. 12 that the rescue workers needed socks, thousands of pairs flooded Ground Zero. Word came to send money instead. The money poured in, but the socks kept coming. The task in this new decade is to find a place for the socks we have to give...