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...visitor, a Virginia Beach chaplain who did not wish to be identified by name, said the trip was his eighth pilgrimage to Ground Zero...
Zhenzhen Lu ’06 was in class on the eighth floor of Stuyvesant High School, a few blocks north of Ground Zero, when the first planes hit. As the school evacuated, Lu said she couldn’t see the towers through all the smoke and dust...
...work there is far from over. A car bomb explosion in the capital killed at least 10 people, while a few hours later in Kandahar, President Mohammed Karzai survived an assassination attempt by a shooter in Afghan army uniform. These were hardly isolated incidents: Thursday's bombing was the eighth in the capital in less than a month, and Karzai's deputy, Haji Abdul Qadir, had been assassinated there in July - prompting U.S. personnel to take over the president's security. The mounting campaign of bombings and ambushes of government and U.S. targets over the summer underscore not only...
...summer is being spread by mosquitoes hatched in our backyard. The infestation, first reported in the U.S. in New York City in 1999, has reached nearly every state east of the Rockies. Seven people, all in Louisiana, have died so far this year, and health officials believe that an eighth man, who died in Mississippi last week, was infected. Neighbors have practically come to blows over the pros and cons of spraying against mosquitoes...
Shoe marketers trying to reach trendsetting young urban males have discovered a fact long known by any weary eighth-grade teacher: guys love a troublemaker. Celebrity endorsers typically have been squeaky-clean family men like Cal Ripken Jr. or harmless rebels like long-haired Andre Agassi. But today's sneaker ads often showcase figures known as much for alleged misdeeds as for their accomplishments. When a company attaches its brand to these antiheroes, "it's a way of saying, 'We're in touch with somebody who is street real,'" says Rick Burton, professor of sports marketing at the University...