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...become a social worker or pursue some other helping vocation. Returning to the Port Authority would remind her too much of everything that happened, everyone who was lost. Rosa Gonzalez and Susan Miszkowicz are dead. So are all the others in the group who took the stairs with her--except Pasquale Buzzelli. He was knocked unconscious in the collapse and awoke hours later stranded atop a 15-ft.-high mass of twisted metal and concrete. He was rescued around 3 p.m.; he had suffered a fractured bone in his foot and other injuries. As for Genelle, she has two foot...
...Except in South Korea. Walk down almost any street in Seoul and you will see everyone from schoolchildren to business executives using advanced Internet phones to download video clips, check the news, e-mail, compile a personal karaoke collection or even join in multiplayer online games against opponents on personal computers or personal digital assistants. The wireless applications most popular here--ring tones, messaging and games--are no different from those in other countries...
...truth and confessed their shame. The day before the Tokyo court decision, a former official in charge of raising bacteria for biological warfare, Yoshio Shinozuka, visited the unit's site?one of 10,000 Japanese who do so every year. The retreating Japanese army had destroyed all buildings except the main office, which now houses a small, tasteful exhibition explaining what happened and showing items such as scalpels and poison gas canisters. Curator Wang Peng says Shinozuka told him how sorry he was for what he had done and had laid a wreath at a memorial...
...kids develop. The two dads began their musical career by playing for special-education classes and later expanded their audience to include kids without learning disabilities or physical handicaps. "We started as run-of-the-mill teacher's aides," says Scelsa. "We still think of ourselves that way, except now we have a bigger classroom...
...movie is Zhou's first outside of mainland China, but her luscious portrayal of Tong Tong, a woman by turns wide-eyed and desperate, shanghais the show. That's no mean feat for an ingenue, and except for Zhou and Glen Chin, all the film's actors are amateurs Chan plucked from the street. Despite the director's deft touch with comic characters, not all manage watchable performances. Chin's gruff, soulful Chu is a match for Tong Tong, and Leung earns kudos as the least annoying fat kid in recent Chinese cinema. But Ho's Ming does little more...