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...West Street, I get the first real view of the building and see that, no matter how it was described, it's much worse. The top of the building is totally in flames. I look up, and for some reason my eye catches the top of the [north tower of the] World Trade Center, and I see a man jump--it must have been at least 100 stories...
...takes a special kind of courage to think about the unthinkable, and Jessica Stern has it. A lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School, Stern studies those who kill innocents for political gain. While others debate theories of terrorism from the safety of the ivory tower, Stern travels the world to meet those who actually commit the acts...
...offices in the World Financial Center. That complex, which is near the World Trade Center, was spared during the attacks. But on Sept. 11, Packer was delivering a keynote speech to an e-commerce conference on the 106th floor of the World Trade Center’s North Tower...
...worst you have ever heard;” Devo produced a skeletal reproduction of pop culture reference point, the Rolling Stones’ “Satisfaction,” while Madonna freely admitted that she was a “material girl.” Even ivory-tower electronic music became a public commodity as New Order and Soft Cell produced dance club hits...
...Some academics feel it?s high time the public got involved in this ivory tower debate. "Ethicists have been debating all these possibilities for years now, but we?re not the ones who will be the ultimate arbiters on this issue," says Dr. Brody,. "The question is what the public wants to do, and eventually, what is decided in legislatures or in the courts." The key, says Dr. Brody, is balancing the powerful potential for good with the potential for abuse, and eventually deciding which we are more willing to live with. "If we do certain things to increase donations...