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As much as I don't like Margaret Thatcher, she did do a shitload for the UK and was quite a powerful woman. Don't forget that she helpe invent frozen ice cream packaging (seriously, she did).

I was in the World Trade Centre on 9 September 2001, and it was quite an odd memory now. There was a pavilion between the two towers with a small restaurant and huge bronze globe with Atlas on it, some kids asking their dad who was taking a lunch break which taller was taller and their smiling mom, some ferries with college kids going to Hoboken to get drunk, the multitude of cars that is New York, and a sense that this was just a different place. But to know that thousands of people died just where you were standing two days before is just such an extraneous feeling and it's quite saddening.