Americans on alert for terror
President Bush has asked citizens to help avert further terrorist attacks by looking out for suspicious activity, and Americans have responded with vigor. Well-meaning people have flooded law enforcement agencies...
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Bridge threat downgraded
The FBI on Tuesday concluded that threats against four suspension bridges in California are "not deemed credible," responding to Gov. Gray Davis' public disclosures about possible terrorist attacks that touched...
Film industry struggles to find its role in time of war
The people who tell the stories don't know what to say, at least not yet. Screenwriters, directors and producers say they feel it is far too early to understand how...
Safety’s price may include freedom
It is called the "great writ," a constitutional right so sacred that many believe it should never be compromised, even during times of war or extreme emergency. But habeas corpus,...
Sailors primed for battle stations
The world may have changed on Sept. 11, but the routine on this Navy cruiser has remained the same. Sailors still fire 12-gauge shotguns from the deck at an imaginary...
Marines await orders with an edgy resolve
The young men, so young that one wants to call them boys, are Marines, meaning they are not the type to wear their emotions on their starched-stiff, precisely rolled camouflage...
Gas masks, firearms go fast as buyers fear more attacks
Responding to fears of further terrorist attacks, Americans across the country are stockpiling freeze-dried food, water, flashlights, survival kits and weapons. "Business is up 10 percent," said Paul Connolly, owner...
Model tenants now neighbors’ worst nightmare
When he moved out of the second-floor efficiency at the Bimini Motel Apartments, Waleed M. Alshehri did something most of Joanne Solic's tenants don't bother to do: He rang the...
Need to help out widens
Across a nation stunned by the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, ironworkers and nurses, welders and homemakers, counselors and kindergartners asked themselves the same question:...
Need to help binds the nation
Pints of blood from Colorado. Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches from middle schoolers in Long Island. Days of rescue and recovery work volunteered by Chicago firefighters. Ambulances from Kentucky. Teddy...