Rush Hour Terror

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For that, at least, Londoners of all races and religions were thankful. Gradually, as the sound of sirens faded and the smell of burning dissipated, the least planned, most messy, least lovable and most loved city in the world got on with what, in summer, it does best--preparing for a weekend's gardening, setting up pints of beer, snapping on a spaghetti-strap dress for a night's clubbing. On the steps of St. Pancras church, close to both the King's Cross bomb and the destroyed bus, a card had been placed among the bunches of flowers laid in remembrance of the victims. "The people who did this," it read, "should know that they have failed. They picked the wrong city to pick on." --Reported by Theunis Bates, Maryann Bird, Jessica Carsen, Andrea Gerlin, Helen Gibson, Lillian Kennett, Adam Smith and Vivienne Walt/ London, Timothy J. Burger and Douglas Waller/ Washington, Bruce Crumley/Paris, Ghulam Hasnain/Karachi, Jeff Israely/Rome and J.F.O. McAllister/Gleneagles