Newspaper Log- Thursday April 8th

I really enjoyed reading the paper today. I found three articles that I was very interested in and even looked through some pictures related to one of the articles. The first article I read through was about a pocket knife that has a USB drive that can actually self-destruct. Honestly... who really needs that? I don't understand why people would want a finger-print only accessible pocket knife with a self-destructing USB drive, but I guess it's pretty cool. For $75 though, it's not that cool anymore.

The second article I read through had to do with the gorgeous weather we had yesterday. The article just explained what people in New York decided to do on this nice day and the article captured many New Yorker's statements. Many adults even skipped work to be outside on this nice day. I myself enjoyed the day outside yesterday, playing lacrosse, frisbee, and just enjoying the warmth of the April sun. I also looked online at the pictures the New York Times posted from yesterday. I hope we continue to get nice weather like we did yesterday.

The last article I read, I read out of concern. The title of the article was, "Lung Function of 9/11 Rescuers Fell, Study Finds." I was particularly very interested in this article because my mother was one of those workers searching through the rubble to find remains. We lived in New York at the time of September 11th, and because my mom was in the NYPD, she worked months searching and cleaning up Ground Zero. It's terrible to hear that some workers' lung functions are dropping. I really hope that my mother doesn't end up having abnormal lung function because of the smoke. Because so many people (13,000 the article says) have had increasingly bad lung function, I am genuinely concerned that this could happen to my mother. I will most likely send her this article, to inform her of what's going on, and hope for the best that she will never develop any issues from working at Ground Zero.