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...volunteers and fire fighters dug around the clock without rest. Doctors at St. Vincent's Hospital told of the fire fighter who had to carry out the decapitated body of his captain. The search dogs were overwhelmed; there was just too much flesh to smell. One emerged with a torn, blackened teddy bear in its mouth. Rescuers found the bodies of airline passengers strapped in their seats, a flight attendant with her hands bound. Doctors at the triage stations grieved that there were not more survivors to treat. All they could do was wash the grit out of the rescuers...
SUDAN The civil war-torn nation played host to bin Laden from 1991 to 1996. The U.S. pressured Sudan into expelling him, but he still has supporters there...
Hawk also worried about the welfare of the police dogs sifting through the rubble. Many of their paws were torn on jagged wreckage, and rescuers had begun wrapping their legs in flimsy burlap. Hawk and his colleagues started a collection drive for protective doggie booties. In a week like this, some might find it strangely incidental to pay so much attention to pets. Hawk disagreed. "I spend my life teaching humane principles. If we learn how to be more humane to animals, we hope it will rub off on people," Hawk said. He paused. "What happened to my sister...
...their hospitality to strangers. On the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, one hour's drive from the border, Peshawar has fought wars and suffered invasions for over 2,000 years. Now as Pakistan braces for the expected U.S. attacks on Afghan territory, the people of Peshawar are torn: on the one hand, they don't want to be isolated in the eyes of the international coalition against terrorism. On the other, many interpret U.S. actions as a hostile "crusade" against Islam in general. And so the secular-religious split at the heart of Pakistan manifests itself in the conversation...
...unshakable bravura. Postings culled from websites (including this one) and newspapers? letters to the editor show a populace ready to spring into some yet to be determined course of action. What form that action takes has already become a potent point of debate. We want revenge, but we are torn by the idea of war - each "bomb the suckers back to the stone ages" email follows hard on the heels of melodramatic pleas to "let there be peace on earth...