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Whitley Strieber posted this Journal on September 12, 2001: September 11, 2001 was the worst day of all of our lives. In that awful sense, it brought us together in a new way. The images that haunt me–the doomed woman stretched to her limit, leaning out of a window above the flames; the dark shadow that seems to cover the second plane as it races across the skyline filled with people just like me; the dust-caked firemen, their eyes dead with fatigue, flashing with determination; and the cellphones, those voices calling to us from the very edge of mystery and death. All of those things, and so much more.

So much more.
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Anne Strieber posted this Diary on September 12, 2001: When the World Trade Center in New York City was reduced to rubble by terrorists on Tuesday, September 11, it hit me especially hard, because I lived in New York for 30 years and it will always be my hometown. I wasn?t fond of the Twin Towers?I remember watching them being built and thinking how hideous they were.

But the Trade Center was a symbol, the same way the Alamo in San Antonio, where I now live, is a symbol. The Alamo was once reduced to rubble, prompting the cry ?Remember the Alamo!? which inspired Texans to fight the Mexicans again and win.
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Smoking may not only kill you, it can kill your pets as well. “Cats that live with cigarette smokers are twice as likely to develop feline lymphoma,” says Antony Moore of Tufts University. Feline lymphoma is a deadly cancer of the blood and immune system. “It was believed that the major cause of feline lymphoma was feline leukaemia virus,” he says. “But the results of our study clearly indicate that exposure to environmental factors such as second-hand tobacco smoke has devastating consequences for cats.”
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The most dangerous type of volcanic eruption can be set off by heavy rain, meaning that watching the weather could save lives. This type of eruption is a “dome collapse,” which has caused more than 70% of the volcano-related deaths over the past century. “They tend to be big, violent eruptions,” says volcanologist John Murray.

The build-up leading to an eruption can be seen months or years ahead, as magma pushing from below produces a visible dome on the side of the mountain. Small eruptions of lava add to the bulge, making it more unstable until it eventually collapses, releasing the pressure in a massive explosion. But it?s hard to tell exactly when this will happen.
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