Word: zeroed
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...TIME: Will you visit Ground Zero to memorialize your husband, Ron, on the fifth anniversary of his death...
...Those next couple of days I did whatever I could to help out. In total we spent a few months between Ground Zero and the Staten Island landfill, and it's the landfill that stands out in my mind the most. We would take a rake and sift through rubble. I remember finding a woman's hand and forearm, and a partial rib cage. I found lots of hair and scalp. Can anyone imagine they would ever have to rake a bunch of rubble in search for human remains? I wish I never had to do that. That...
Five men in Tiernach Cassidy's firehouse died on 9/11. After two grueling months working at ground zero, he began to have their names--and the burning towers--emblazoned on his back. The tattoo, which took nine months to complete, was therapeutic. "The pain in my back was good for the pain in my head," he says. Plus Cassidy, 34, married the tattoo parlor's receptionist. This image, by photographer Jonathan Hyman, is featured in the photo exhibit, "9/11: A Nation Remembers," at Philadelphia's National Constitution Center, opening Sept...
...Also this week, the President will hold a Cabinet meeting and speak Thursday in Atlanta on the global war on terror. On Sunday, the day before the 9/11 anniversary, the President and First Lady Laura Bush will participate in a wreath-laying at Ground Zero in New York City, then attend a service of prayer and remembrance...
However, that Sino-American interdependence left the U.S. vulnerable to a crisis in China. When it came, the Chinese stock-market crash sent a shock wave through the entire Asian economy. Some blamed the powerful new Middle Eastern Shari'a-law banks, which had terminated their zero-interest-rate facilities for Shanghai hedge funds. Others saw the sinister hand of the Russian-controlled OGEC (Organization of Gas Exporting Countries), which had stunned energy importers in Asia by trebling natural gas prices. Either way, the impact was disastrous. Output collapsed. Unemployment soared. The Chinese banking system, which had never been entirely...