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...media has successfully risen to the challenge of covering global affairs since the terrorist attacks on the United States, CNN broadcast journalist Judy Woodruff told about three hundred attendees last night in the annual Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics at the ARCO Forum...
...this was a coordinated terrorist assault, though, it was pretty ineffectual. Given anthrax's lethal potential, an assault that caused one death, one nonfatal infection and two noninfectious exposures (a number that had risen to seven by Saturday, said American Media, though federal health officials wouldn't confirm it) is like the Sept. 11 hijackers' commandeering a motorcycle and driving it into a telephone booth. "Get real," says a photographer who works for tabloid newspapers. "If this was a terrorist incident, they would have put it in the ventilating system, and 400 people would have anthrax right...
...grants are capped for each student, a ceiling that has risen in recent years. In the 1997-98 school year, the maximum award was $2,700. By last year it had increased...
Farras Khan Shinwari starts work early, before the sun has risen over the red plains of Karkhla, 15 km east of Peshawar in northwest Pakistan. After a meager breakfast of tea and dry nan with his brothers, he starts sprinkling water on the mound of red clay they will mix and form into bricks. All around him on the plain, hundreds of illegal Afghan migrants squat barefoot in the clay, forming bricks with their hands for less than a dollar a day. Even the pittance they get here is more than they could make at home in Afghanistan. Farras will...
...heinous terrorist assaults left President Bush with a daunting task, but he has courageously risen to the challenge. Three days after the tragedy, he stood at Ground Zero, surrounded by the debris that was once the World Trade Center. While embracing New York City firefighter Bob Beckwith, Bush made an extemporaneous, off-the-cusp proclamation to the cheering rescue workers that resonated throughout our great nation: “I can hear you, the world hears you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon...