Updated 9/13/01 10:00 a.m. EDT Eyewitness to terror U.S. News Deputy National Editor Lisa Stein was in a high-rise hotel across from the World Trade Center plaza Tuesday morning. Chief Economics Correspondent Noam Neusner was in a cab on the West Side Highway. They, like thousands of New Yorkers and out-of-towners living ordinary lives, were soon witnesses to the horror in the sky as two planes hit the the twin towers. Here are their personal accounts:

"I began to run for my life" Lisa Stein, deputy national editor at U.S. News, was across the street when the attacks occurred.	"A ghastly sight" Noam Neusner, economics correspondent for U.S. News, reports from the scene.
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