Facts About 9/11

1. New York City has 11 letters
2. Afghanistan has 11 letters.
3. George W Bush has 11 letters.
4. New York is the 11th state.
5. The first plane to crash against the Twin Towers was flight number 11.
6. Flight 11 was carrying 92 passengers. 9+2=11
7. Flight 77 which also hit Twin Towers, was carrying 65 passengers. 6+5=11
8. The date is equal to the US emergency services telephone number 911. 9+1+1=11.
9. The total number of victims inside all the hi-jacked planes was 254. September 11 is day number 254 of the calendar year. 2+5+4=11.
10. The Madrid bombings took place on 3/11/2004. 3+1+1+2+4=11.
11. The Madrid bombings happened 911 days after the Twin Towers incident.

New York, Site Unseen

Horizon, Summer, 1965
Drawings by Jean Michel Folon

Before he saw New York for the first time, earlier this year, Jean Michel Folon, a young French architect-turned-artist, prefigured the city scene from visions in his mind's eye. As revealed in the accompanying drawings, his expectations led him to picture a cityscape of labyrinthine streets; jigsaw patterns of inchoate forms; lonely, preoccupied pedestrians; towering thickets of TV antennae; and a bewilderment of newsprint that, beyond control, transmogrifies into endlessly windowed facades-and one aspiring tree. Folon, far from disenchanted by his visit to the city, finds his fantasies are now reshaping after splintering on unexpected actualities.