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Chapter 1
1. Alex Lieber, “How Do Dogs Sense Oncoming Storms?” PetPlace. com, http://www.petplace.com/dogs/how-do-dogs-sense-oncoming-storms/page1.aspx.
Chapter 2
1. Dennis Cauchon, “For Many on Sept. 11, Survival Was No Accident,” USA Today, December 20, 2001, http://www.usatoday.com/news/sept11/2001/12/19/usatcov-wtcsurvival.htm.
2. James Glanz and Eric Lipton, “How the Towers Stood and Fell,” New York Times Magazine, September 8, 2002.
3. Nancy Lee, Lonnie Schlein, and Mitchell Levitas, eds., with an introduction by Howell Raines, A Nation Challenged: A Visual History of 9/11 and Its Aftermath (New York: New York Times/Callaway, 2002), 24.
Chapter 3
1. Reporters, Writers, and Editors of Der Spiegel magazine, Inside 9-11: What Really Happened, edited by Stefan Aust and Cordt Schnibben (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2002).
2. Martha T. Moore and Dennis Cauchon, “Inches Decide Life, Death on the 78th Floor,” USA Today, September 3, 2002, http://www.usatoday.com/news/sept11/2002-09-03-floor-usat_x.htm.
3. Ibid.
Chapter 4
1. Reporters, et al, Inside 9-11: 50.
2. Ibid.
3. William Roberts, “Plane Hits Building: Woman Survives 75-Story Fall,” Elevator World, March 1, 1996, http://www.elevator-world.com/magazine/archive01/9603-002.htm.
Chapter 5
1. David Frank, “America, 9-11-01,” Mount Wilson Observatory Association Web site, http://www.mwoa.org/David_Frank.html.
2. Mitchell Fink and Lois Mathias, Never Forget: An Oral History of September 11, 2001 (New York: HarperCollins, 2002), 46.
3. Reporters, et al, Inside 9-11, 53.
4. Guide Dog Users of California, California Penal Code, Part 1: Crimes and Punishment, Title 9, chap. 12, sect. 365.5 (a), http://www.gdu-cal.org/law_cal.html, accessed December 8, 2010.
Chapter 6
1. Quoted in Ernst Peter Fischer, Beauty and the Beast: The Aesthetic Moment in Science, trans. Elizabeth Oehlkers (New York: Plenum Trade, 1997), 12.
Chapter 7
1. Julio E. Correa, “The Dog’s Sense of Smell,” Alabama Cooperative Extension System, Alabama A&M University, UNP-0066, July 2005, http://www.aces.edu/pubs/docs/U/UNP-0066/.
2. Jim Dwyer and Michelle O’Donnell, “9/11 Firefighters Told of Isolation Amid Disaster,” New York Times, September 9, 2005, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9904E1DC1331F93AA3575AC0A9639C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print.
Chapter 8
1. James S. Nyman, “Unemployment Rates and Reasons: Dissing the Blind,” Braille Monitor, March 2009,http://www.nfb.org/images/nfb/Publications/bm/bm09/bm0903/bm090307.htm.
Chapter 9
1. Nancy Lee, Lonnie Schlein, and Mitchell Levitas, eds., A Nation Challenged: A Visual History of 9/11 and Its Aftermath (New York: Callaway, 2002), 116.
Chapter 10
1. Kenneth Jernigan, “A Definition of Blindness,” special issue (Low Vision and Blindness), Future Reflections 24, no. 3 (2005), http://www.nfb.org/Images/nfb/Publications/fr/fr19/fr05si03.htm.
2. Rachel Aviv, “Listening to Braille,” New York Times, January 3, 2010, available at http://www.nfb.org/images/nfb/Publications/bm/bm10/bm1002/bm100203.htm.
3. Gene Raffensperger, “Kenneth Jernigan: Power to the Blind,” Des Moines Sunday Register, June 2, 1974, http://www.braillerman.com/jernigan.htm.
4. Tracy Smith, “A Blind Army Officer’s Challenging Vision,” CBS Sunday Morning,