Business as Usual?(effects of World Trade Center attacks on US economy)(Brief Article)

Multichannel News, October, 2001 by Paskowski, Marianne

Hardly. But we're all trying to get on with leading our lives, as our president, New York City's mayor and all of our elected officials have urged us to do since Sept. 11, when terrorists changed the course of life for everyone on this planet. You can debate whether the House of Representatives, collectively, acted like a "wimp" when it shut down last week in the face of an anthrax scare until you're blue in the face.

It really wasn't inspiring to the rest of the nation, and especially to those who live in Florida. New York and now the nation's capital, where anthrax exposures have occurred. Unlike the House -- which shut down for the rest of the week -- citizens in those place showed up for work. Many wore rubber gloves to perform the once-mundane...

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