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A NATION CHALLENGED: THE SCENT; 20 Days Later, an Invisible Reminder Lingers

It’s the odor of a burning computer. Or a burning tire. Or burning paper. One person said it was the scent of unsettled souls. It’s the smell, once overwhelming, now increasingly more ephemeral, that emanates from the tangled wreckage of the World Trade Center.

20 Days Later, an Invisible Reminder Lingers

It’s the odor of a burning computer. Or a burning tire. Or burning paper. One person said it was the scent of unsettled souls. It’s the smell, once overwhelming, now increasingly more ephemeral, that emanates from the tangled wreckage of the World Trade Center.

The Psychiatrist in the House Feels the Nation’s Trauma

IN the days after the terrorist attacks, Representative Jim McDermott of Washington, the only psychiatrist in Congress, could not get his mind off the image of a plane crashing into the World Trade Center.