Chapter 20

More Star Performers

It's hard to believe how much the world changed between the time we wrote the first edition of this book and the first update five years later. In the second edition, we speculated that, in the future, the world will be divided between those who remember where they were the morning of September 11, 2001, and those who were either too young to remember or were born after that tragic event. Similarly, many of us of a certain age grew up with the clear memory of where we were when we heard about John F. Kennedy's assassination.

Not too long after 9/11, one of us (Steven) received a surprising phone call from Robert Fazio. He began to tell an amazing story. At 9 a.m. one Tuesday morning, his brother called to tell ...

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