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BOSTON--In the most deadly and horrific attack on the United States in its 225-year history, terrorists crashed two hijacked passenger jets into the World Trade Center towers in New York City, toppling the 110-story structures in a cloud of smoke and ash yesterday morning. Less than an hour later, another passenger jet crashed into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. in an unprecedented attack upon the U.S. government...
...before all of the nearly 50,000 World Trade Center employees could evacuate, the two towers collapsed to the ground in a scene similar to a staged building implosion, covering the downtown business district in ash and debris less than 90 minutes after the initial plane impacts...
...times. This year's performance is the most spectacular eruption since 1992, when lava flows threatening the town of Zafferana were diverted by controlled explosions. This time, residents of nearby Catania, a city of 380,000, have been using umbrellas to protect themselves from a constant thin drizzle of ash. The local airport was closed for three days...
...Kokujo (girls who like black men) paint their skin cocoa, weave their hair in cornrows, dress like Destiny's Child?all the better to attract the prime catch, the black military man. The phenomenon has already become a pop-culture staple, propelling hip-hop acts like Dragon Ash to Japanese platinum success and launching the career of best-selling novelist Amy Yamada, whose memoirish Bedroom Eyes detailed a Japanese woman's sexual exploits with black servicemen...
Plain old dirt and fill proved to be the biggest headache. For 100 years, the area was a dumping ground for ash and cinder containing cancer-causing substances called PAHs, or polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (think of the charred stuff left on your barbecue grill). In all, Victory developers moved 750,000 cu. yds. of dirt, with nearly half so hopelessly "dirty" that it was carted away in 15,000 huge truckloads. Because previous landowners like Union Pacific were paying some of the cleanup costs, accountants had to track each spadeful...