Strangers form Ground Zero Food Services team
Three volunteers from different states unite near the World Trade Center rubble to run Ground Zero Food Services. Tony Hall from Providence leads the effort with Ron Riviezzo a Key West chef and Frank Marquez a California trucker. They feed 1500 emergency workers daily in tents at South Street Seaport and nearby sites with donations from businesses and individuals.
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New York
Manhattan
Key West
Fla
Los Angeles
Providence
R.I
Ground Zero Food Services
World Trade Center
South Street Seaport
Trade Center
Salvation Army
The
Red Cross
Tony Hall
Providence Boys and Girls Club
Hall
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
Ron Riviezzo
Riviezzo
New Hampshire
Frank Marquez
California
Marquez
Starbucks
New York Police
Bruce Vogel
Vogel
Frank
Ron
New York City
John Luna
Robert Lewocki
MTA
Bowling Green Park
Ground Zero Food Services Group
Publishers rush to update history books after 9/11
Publishers race to revise textbooks after the September 11 attacks. McGraw-Hill and other houses scramble to weave in terrorism and the Afghanistan war while meeting tight deadlines for fall 2002 and 2003. Writers redraw sections, add pages on 9/11, and stress world geography amid contested figures like Osama bin Laden.
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Washington
McGraw-Hill
World Trade Center
Pentagon
Roger Rogalin
MacMillan/McGraw- Hill
Gil Sewell
American Textbook Council
Texas
Michael Stoff
University of Texas
Prentice- Hall
Stoff
New York
Capitol Hill
Korea
South Africa
Rogalin
Afghanistan
Pakistan
Kazakhstan
Osama bin Laden
Bush
Chris Johnson
McDougal Littell
Houghton Mifflin
United States
bin Laden
U.S
al-Qaida
Mount St. Helens
April Hattori
Senate
Vermont
James Jeffords
Republican Party
High frequency ablation offers new cancer treatment hope
Doctors test radiofrequency ablation to heat and kill tumors from inside the body. The method, used for inoperable cancers, shows promise as a low-cost noninvasive option, with patients like Theresa Cranmer reporting quick recovery and extended survival.
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University of Texas
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Houston
National Institutes of Health
Paul O’moore
Abington Memorial Hospital
Pennsylvania
Theresa Cranmer
Florence
N.J
Cranmer
Patrick Sewell
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson
Indiana
Private prisons receive subsidies with limited local gains
A Washington based study finds most large private prisons from the last 15 years rely on subsidies such as tax breaks and bonds. It reports three quarters of big private prisons in 19 states received incentives totaling about 628 million dollars, with little evidence of broad economic benefits for nearby communities.
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Washington
Institute On Taxation and Economic Policy
Institute
Mississippi Delta
David Jordan
Jordan
Philip Mattera
Mattera
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Ground Zero
Yankee Clipper Restaurant
Tony Halil
History Books
Vickie Menanteaux
Pearson Education
Knight Ridder
Elyria
Gebhardt Weare
Westevan Court
PTTT
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