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...Regiment Armory, family members waited in lines for hours to scan lists of victims treated at emergency rooms or identified as dead, looking for a familiar name. When they found nothing--as most did--they filled out a seven-page form describing the missing person with details that included hair color, length of fingernails and even earrings and shoes. Some brought strands of hair plucked from loved ones' brushes, hoping that if survival was out of the question, DNA identification would at least make death a tolerable certainty...
...Oyola's Brooklyn apartment serves as a mini-command center to coordinate the search. Friends have posted flyers and e-mailed photos, telling everyone to look for a 5-ft. 4-in. woman with brown eyes and long, recently dyed, dark red hair. He can't stop shuffling from hospital to hospital, can't stop staring at the TV screen. "I want to turn it off, but I can't. I'm hoping that I'll see something, that I'll see her." He owes her this, at the very least...
...that, his mother-in-law Rivera jumps out of her chair, tears running down her face, and kisses his cheek. She has driven 18 hours from Florida to find her daughter. "Don't lose your hope, for me, don't lose your hope," she whispers. On Friday, Rivera drops hair samples off at the Armory. Oyola cancels Adianes' bank card and spends the rest of the day wandering around Brooklyn, unable to be in their home without her. He does not return to the Armory. --By Amanda Ripley. Reported by Amanda Bower
...romantics when you scratch them. As a practical matter, living here requires some willed sangfroid because living here also requires, more than anywhere else in America, an exhausting everyday vulnerability. We travel on subways packed shoulder to shoulder with exotic strangers close enough to smell their hair, and in taxis we put our lives in the hands of other random strangers who may or may not speak our language or know where they're going. We walk down sidewalks insanely dense with people and data, sidestepping peddlers, beggars, dog turds and gaping steel holes that descend into basement caverns...
...Internet, doesn't employ the fire and brimstone of the village cleric to justify terrorist acts. Instead, he sees the conspiracy against Islam in geopolitical omens: foreign debt, IMF restrictions, wars against Muslims in Chechnya and Bosnia, and the Palestinians versus Israel. But often this cool rhetoric masks a hair-trigger emotionalism, an angry hurt. As one senior Pakistani police counterterrorism expert, Muhammed Shoaib Suddle, remarked: "What drives people to this madness? It has nothing to do with reality but with the perceptions that are created. Even if they're smart, a lot of people are fascinated by these half...