Cybersleuth Mom
Was it coincidence? Fate? Shannen Rossmiller isn't sure. But on the evening of September 11, 2001, after a wrenching day absorbing horrific images of death and destruction from the East Coast, Rossmiller stepped out of the tub in her Montana ... [... more]
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Tragedy Tricksters
Of all the stories to emerge from September 11, Tania Head's was one of the more harrowing: Trapped in her Merrill Lynch office on the 78th floor of the World Trade Center's south tower, her clothes afire, Head crawled to safety through the ... [... more]
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Everyday Heroes: The Terrorist Tracker
From Reader's Digest On 9/11, after watching the horror of the falling towers on TV in her Montana home, Shannen Rossmiller was so enraged, she began a new career-scanning jihadist sites on the Internet. She studied Arabic and posed as a member ... [... more]
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Invincible
On a hazy late afternoon in New York City, Lauren Manning breezes through the door with an upbeat smile, her husband, Greg, at her side. A gauzy medical sleeve covers her left hand following a recent surgery, but her outstretched right hand is ... [... more]
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Life After Hurricane Katrina
Janice Rozetcki points at a withered bush outside her storm-ravaged New Orleans home. "This was my beautiful lemon tree," she says. The house is marked with spray-painted symbols left by search crews, its interior stripped to the studs. In the . [... more]
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Cuba Without Castro
It has been a thorn in America's side for almost half a century: an island nation that nearly plunged us into nuclear war with the Soviet Union; a country that brought military humiliation to the United States at a place called the Bay of Pigs; a ... [... more]
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Sniper on the Loose
It was a stifling hot July evening, but Ron Horton was comfortable inside one of his haunts: Stingers pool hall in suburban Phoenix. A 47-year-old construction superintendent, Horton was raising three young sons on his own and liked to spend the ... [... more]
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Outrageous! Let's Shut Them Down
By Michael Crowley From Reader's Digest In the weeks before New York City hosted the Republican National Convention last August, security officials spent millions securing the area around Madison Square Garden against a possible terrorist attack. ... [... more]
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Are We Safer Since 9/11? A Special Report Investigates
Leroy Richmond still can't believe his luck. In 2001 the postal worker and volunteer safety captain at the U.S. Postal Service's Brentwood facility in Washington, D.C., was among the first to see the bulletin from the Centers for Disease Control ... [... more]
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