It had among its exhibits a new kind of bra without the metal bits (designed by a male) and a spring-loaded laundry basket.Some events were evidently packed, such as a forum on news reporting chaired by Harry Evans Others less so; indeed, Carnegie Hall was barely half full. The Duke of York was around for the first two days of the festival. He went to a performance of scenes from Shakespeare plays involving teenagers from Britain and the US and, sitting in the front row, fell fast asleep. And it was only lunchtime. * * * Moshe, like most New Yorkers, is still feeling winded by the events of 11 September. The owner of a towing business, he donated his time and all four of his trucks in the immediate aftermath of the attack to help to remove damaged and half-buried cars.He and his guys took 700 cars out of the World Trade Centre neighbourhood in a week before getting back to normal work Except it isn’t normal.

He is hurting economically, like everyone, and recently sold three of the trucks. So now it is just him doing the work.An Israeli who came to New York 15 years ago, Moshe started to diversify last year, buying apartments and renting them out. Even that is not going well, though: a midtown apartment that used to rent for $3,000 (£2,200) a month has come empty. He is advertising it now for $2,500.Still, he made money off me – $100 for towing my car 40 blocks to the dealer so that I could get a new key, the fancy computer-chip kind I lost mine on Monday night..

The American government suspects that at least one more letter steeped in anthrax has passed through the US postal service, raising fears of a new round of scares and infections. The American government suspects that at least one more letter steeped in anthrax has passed through the US postal service, raising fears of a new round of scares and infections.
The authorities had believed that all the cases in the Washington area could be traced back to the letter sent to the Senate majority leader, Tom Daschle, which led to the death of two Washington postal workers. But they now say the contamination of a worker at an entirely separate State Department distribution centre has effectively destroyed that hope.The acknowledgement came as the mail centres of the Supreme Court, the CIA and a high-profile military hospital in Washington joined the growing list of government and media sites where the deadly disease has turned up.US authorities seem no nearer finding out the source of the anthrax attacks than they were a week ago. The pendulum of suspicion appears to be swinging away from the al-Qa’ida network or hostile foreign states to homegrown domestic terrorists.Most noticeably, in the anthrax search, as in the hunt for those behind the 11 September terrorist attacks, the Bush administration is bending over backwards to play down any Iraqi connection, despite repeated pointers that Saddam Hussein’s regime might be involved. The latest of these came on Friday when the Czech government confirmed that Mohamed Atta, one of the ringleaders of the suicide hijacking plot, met an Iraqi intelligence officer, Ahmed Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani, in Prague during a brief foray from the US in early April.Publicly, US officials have refused to attach much importance to it. Anything which directly implicates Baghdad would – by the logic of Mr Bush’s vow to go after not only terrorists but states which sponsored them – oblige Washington to mount an attack on Iraq.