9/11...9 years later. This week's blog was inspired from a post on Polipsych by Judith Barr.
It's the anniversary of a painful, horrifying, tragedy.
We've responded in a number of ways...
We've been shocked. We've grieved. We've ...READ»
We both drove to Washington DC together to meet with Republican Senator, Tim Nicholson. Darko spent the night at his house and I in a hotel room on the Beltway. We had brought with us tons of secret information on Al Qaeda operatives with us for this visit but Darko left it all with me in my room and Senator Nicholson did not view it.
Senator Nicholson took us out to breakfast early that morning and told us that "In DC, we are alla bunch of paid whores for campaign contributions." The Republika Srpska Information Agency was very generous to help America fight terrorism on many occasions. The boxes I stayed with that night had papers and photos of tons of Al Qaeda operatives.READ»
Post 9/11, JFK was supposedly safe beyond reproach insofar as security; this proved untrue. I had not traveled outside America in many years so I was unfamiliar with the new travel restrictions on such items as nail scissors etc., being illegal to bring onboard flights and carried several very sharp ones right passed JFK security inspection inside my purse on board out of my own ignorance of new flight rules. It was not until I arrived on my stopover in Paris, France that I was boarding onto a JAT (Yugoslav Air Travel) flight for Belgrade that the security officer of JAT told me that he had to confiscate the aforementioned items owing to new security precautions implemented post 9/11.READ»
Thirty-one years ago, the housemate with whom I’d found an apartment
moved out, and I invited a poet friend of mine to take his place. We
shared that apartment for several months, until he, too, moved on, and
another friend moved ...READ»
The U.S. border with Canada has been subject to increasing scrutiny in recent years, especially since September 11, 2001, when security concerns have overshadowed economic ones, despite the fact of Canada remaining our foremost trading partner. READ»
Afghan businesses in the Fremont, California area have been hard hit by fallout from the terrorist attacks. But patriotic Afghan-Americans are hopeful that their customers will return before it's too late.READ»
SpectraSite is a small company with big real-estate holdings in the New York area: 1,200 rooftops. After September 11, SpectraSite did its part by searching for even more rooftops to handle the city's communications crisis.READ»
Last week, Fast Company readers from as far away as Australia, Malaysia, and Singapore expressed their revulsion and offered their support. Read their thoughts and then add your own reflections and suggestions.READ»
The world's most successful Internet company is based on two pillars of growth: the global spread of Internet-style capitalism and confidence in the basic goodness of the people who do business on the site. Both ideas came under attack on September 11.READ»
Pamela Porter and her colleagues at Crisis Management International are the National Guard of therapists -- called to duty at a moment's notice to respond to disaster. Here's the remarkable story of their response to September 11.READ»
Ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Our fourth-annual Who's Fast issue arrives at a time when our feelings about work, life, business, and purpose need thoughtful recalibration.READ»
I was recently asked to participate in a challenge called “Why Most Leadership Sucks, Including Yours…by John W. McKenna. I wasn’t thrilled with his languaging and told him as much on a previous Fast Company post to which he ...READ»
After nearly three years, Osama bin Laden has resurfaced in American mainstream media. A video emerged on Tuesday featuring the terror leader's still image and his voice in which he praises the 19 "champions" (suicide hijackers) who ...READ»
There's no more telling example of how people identify themselves--or are identified-- by what they do, than in the current argument over the 9/11 memorial plans for Ground Zero. When the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation ...READ»
Here at Fast Company World Headquarters, we're looking ahead to . . . our brand new world headquarters. In March, we'll be moving downtown to 7 World Trade Center, the rebuilt version of a tower destroyed in the 9/11 attacks five ...READ»
