Gift Shop

The Gift Shop is Now Open!

Don't forget to drop by the gift shop, where you can plaster your favorite chapter mascot across your chest, desk or tote bag. (And all merchandise is American-made, for you red-blooded types who care about such things.) Check out the new online Gift Shop to find out what the hubbub's all about!

Bad Call
Ill-conceived attempt to retrieve cellphone is cut off.
New York Daily News, Feb 11, 2004
The tragedy unfolded about 2 p.m., when Villegas dropped her

prized phone, which she had bought just a month ago with her wages as a worker at Manhattan perfume company.

She climbed onto the tracks and grabbed the phone. But the teen quickly realized she was in trouble and started try to climb back up to the 5-foot-high platform.

"She tried to get up on the platform once or twice with no train coming or anything, and I could see she was going to have a problem," said one good Samaritan, a 56-year-old TV newswriter named Jerry. "She turned around to make one more look or something, and then I could hear the train coming ..."

(Chapter 5)

Shear Horror
Survivors recount New York's gruesome ferry disaster.

(Chapter 10)

Slaughter and Consumption
Internet advertiser finds volunteer good enough to eat.

(Chapter 6)

Blast!
Rocket ship goes everywhere but up on launch.

(Chapter 3)

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