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...typically barrels straight to the scene, was doing a strange, slow zigzag as it approached the Twin Towers. When he climbed out he saw why: the street was already littered with bodies that had fallen from the sky. The fire fighters entered the lobby of 1 World Trade through blown-out windows and waited for their orders from senior officers at a desk that served as a makeshift command center...
...have, I told you about the blown-out windows, how we entered the lobby through the blown-out windows...
Strewn across the terraced slopes that climb the valley were torn strips of Arabic training manuals, bits of a Chinese-Arabic dictionary, some shreds of clothing, a set of parallel exercise bars and a shooting target printed by the National Rifle Association. Trees blown from the earth lay with their roots twisted into clumps like charred driftwood. Bomb craters 50 ft. across and 20 ft. deep were filled with rubble and crossbeams. That the caves still existed was a wonder. They had been bombarded for days. Yet clearly anybody who had taken refuge inside the caves would have survived...
Since the Sept. 11 attacks, gifts that celebrate the American spirit have been arriving in U.S. stores from around the world. Christmas-ornament maker Christopher Radko's rendition of the World Trade Center, called Heroes All ($34, right), was made in Poland of mouth-blown glass. Frederick's of Hollywood's America the Beautiful thong ($5) was manufactured in Hong Kong and printed in the U.S. Estee Lauder is selling an America the Beautiful compact that comes in enamel ($40) or encrusted with crystals ($75). The latter model is made in the U.S. using crystals from Austria. Some have questioned...
...safety." Bahamas Realty, one of that country's largest island brokers, reports a 25% jump this autumn in calls about its properties. "I get the sense," says George Damianos of Damianos Realty, another major Bahamas island agent, "that prospective buyers have decided there's no chance of being blown up on their own island in the Exumas," one of the Bahamas' prettiest island groups...