Word: horror
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Losing a parent is hellish in any instance. Hilary had the added horror of seeing hers vanish, suddenly and surreally, on TV. That morning her father George called home twice from his office at the insurance broker Aon on the 99th floor of the south tower--once calmly, the second time choking on tears--to assure her mother Ginny that he was O.K. and was being evacuated. Several hours later, Hilary, watching TV along with the rest of her sixth-grade class, saw one of the endless replays of her father's office building collapsing in a heap...
...Sept. 11, Sana and her mother watched the little TV by the bed in numb horror. First the dissolving towers, then the furious retaliation: Muslim-owned shops in the U.S. being trashed and burned, Arab-looking cabbies dragged from their cars and beaten. "We were both in shock," recalls Sana, who telephoned her brother, a student in Ann Arbor, Mich., that first night to make sure...
...close of the summit delegates had agreed to halve by 2015 the number of people without water and sanitation and to move toward renewable energy sources. But concrete targets were dropped, much to the horror of green groups. Still, cynics who suggested that all that talk may have been just so much hot air miss the point, said Timothy Wirth, a former U.S. Senator and head of the United Nations Foundation and Better World Fund. "Where else does the world network?" he asked. "In a world of imperfect information it's good to get together and thrash these things through...
...farcical fluff? The economy's shaky, we may be headed off to war in Iraq, and as we near the one-year anniversary of September 11, we are all being forced (either by our own actual experiences or by an omnipresent media campaign) to revisit the pain and horror of that day. We could all use a break. The executives at Fox were lucky enough to have hit on the perfect programming to capitalize on our emotional exhaustion, providing us with a glorified talent show and an unstinting display of Fox's trademark cheese. Just what the doctor ordered - pass...
...Fifty-seven years after World War II ended, Japan is finally embracing its kamikaze past. Named after the "winds of god" that saved Japan from Kubla Khan's invading ships in the 13th century, these pilots used to be viewed with pained embarrassment by Japanese as symbols of the horror and insanity of the war. Humiliated by defeat and desperate to move on, Japan buried the memory of these men whose chillingly simple mission was to fly into American battleships...