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AFTER THE ATTACKS TV. Heightened security alarms hikers i i I Plant near Sandusky, Ohio; and the Department of Energy reservation at Oak Ridge, Tenn. In Maryland's Catoctin Mountain Park, the national park surrounding Camp David, some roads, trails and campgrounds have been closed periodically since the attacks. On the water, the Coast Guard says it has searched about 140 boats on the Potomac River near Washington since Sept. 11.

Thorpe said groups from St. Paul's School have been hiking the Appalachian Trail for 15 years, always assuming it was safe. After Thursday's incident, some parents decided against letting their children spend a scheduled night on the trail, he said. "I'm glad there is a group of people that is keeping our bases secure," Thorpe said, "but it would be nice to know, if there are areas which are going to be restricted in some way, how would we know about them?" from a distance, sent the remaining students up the trail and then used a cell phone to tell police his colleague was being held at gunpoint, according to Thorpe and State Police Cpl. Benjamin Townes.

Dasey said none of the hikers had entered the fenced restricted area around the antenna but they were close enough to concern the soldiers. As long as hikers stay on the trail, "there should be no impact on the recreational opportunities up there," Dasey said. Hunters who come near the tower will likely be asked for identification, he said. "It's part of the heightened security for all military facilities in the area i all military facilities around the country," Dasey said. Hunting has been banned this fall on some government installations that normally permit it, including Fort Detrick; the Ravenna Army Ammunition By David Dishneau Aaaodatwl Prat Writar HAGERSTOWN, Md.

A field trip turned fearsome this week for hikers who took an Appalachian Trail detour and wound up facing Army M-16s. The encounter between military police guarding a communications antenna and hikers from a Baltimore County private school ended peacefully. However, the encounter illustrated how recreational activities and tighter security measures have occasionally clashed since the Sept 11 terrorist attacks. Hikers, boaters and hunters who pursue their hobbies near military installations or federal buildings are being watched, checked and sometimes kept from their usual routines. Eleven sophomores and two teachers from St.

Paul's School for Boys didn't know they were close to a restricted area near the "It's part of the heightened security for all military facilities in the area all military facilities around the country." Charles Dasey Fort Detrick spokesman Appalachian Trail, said Principal John Thorpe. When some of the students and a teacher took a side path to an overlook near Pen Mar, a tiny community just south of the Pennsylvania border, two camouflage-wearing MPs guarding the antenna ordered them out of the woods, said Charles Dasey, a spokesman at Fort Detrick. A number of military installations in the area are managed from Fort Detrick, Dasey said. The other teacher, watching jr Ghani Raines, left, and Jim Miller are interviewed by military police officers near a mountain-top federal site near Pen Mar, recently. The two were leading hikers from a Baltimore County private school on the Appalachian Trail and veered too close to the secure facility.

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11. Often, the make-believe lives of most characters are insulated from the real world, But like almost everything else, that has changed. "Given the immediacy of comic strips, they have a special place in our culture," said Tom Batiuk, who often addresses issues such as alcoholism and teen suicide in "Funky Winkerbean." "It's sort of the way we used to talk over the back fence, this is our way of doing that." This week, Funky's TV correspondent wife, Cindy, reports on what is happening in New York. Greg Evans' characters in "Luann" will begin' talking about the attacks and the chance of Luann's older brother joining the military. "If they didn't react to this, it would seem so artificial, as if they're living in some comic-strip cocoon," Evans said.

As cartoonist Darby Conly watched bodies fall from the World Trade Center, his imaginary world of "Get Fuzzy" about a single ad executive and his talking cat and dog suddenly seemed irrelevant. He put off working for two days. "It is surreal to sit there with the news on and watch the worst tragedy ever seen and try to write jokes," he said. Conly settled on having his main character, in a U.S.A. T-shirt and a New York Fire Department hat, give blood this week.

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