Posts tagged “9-11”
Wonders of the World
PBS.com’s Building Big: Databank entry on the World Trade Center via usr/bin/girl
Barry
Go read: Dave Barry Religion’s Misguided Missiles What More Can I Give? Resources Saving a Life and a Bride most via MetaFilter
Imagine
A week later
BoA
Some notes on the economy
News
This article, The Images That Won’t Let Us Go, is painfully true. The Challenger explosion seems like nothing to me now. This is just so much. You don’t even need to say it. Everyone knows. Everyone in the country, in the world probably … You can just say, “Did you know anyone there?” Or, “Have
India
I’m going to guess that the gunmen in India who shot a 10 year-old-boy and left a note warning the government not to support the US in any retaliatory action against the Taliban didn’t read The Dalai Lama’s letter to the President of the United States of America.
Mike
BOSTON (CNN) — The Boston Harbor was shut down Sunday for about three hours after the U.S. Coast Guard received two bomb threats. After a sweep of the area, Coast Guard officials found no sign of anything suspicious and reopened most of the harbor. My little brother is in the Coast Guard (see here). My
Are you registered?
If you’re a young man, age 18 through 25, the law requires you to notify the Selective Service System of an address change within 10 days. link via MetaFilter
Math
So far, more than 10,000 tons have been removed, a tiny fraction of the skyscrapers’ ruins – a combined total of 220 stories of gleaming steel weighing some 1.25 million tons, plus an unknown number of surrounding structures. Ten thousand tons in 4 days? Let’s be generous and say three days, assuming that they weren’t