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Much of the World Trade Center will not wind up in Fresh Kills because thousands of tons of it was vaporized and deposited in layers of dust over Manhattan and Brooklyn. The Environmental Protection Agency has been monitoring the area, and while traces of carcinogenic asbestos are showing up in some dust samples at Ground Zero, posing a danger for anyone not wearing a mask, it has not shown up in samples taken in the outlying boroughs. While it is uncertain whether asbestos was used in the towers, which were completed in 1973, it may have been used elsewhere...
...grieving move on, following familiar steps that include anger, depression and, finally, acceptance. Last week's blasts, however, may have ripped out that recovery route. "A woman kisses her husband goodbye, and the next thing she sees, the whole damn building falls down," says psychiatrist Marvin Lipkowitz of Brooklyn's Maimonides Medical Center. "There's a limit to what the mind can take...
...Oyola's Brooklyn apartment serves as a mini-command center to coordinate the search. Friends have posted flyers and e-mailed photos, telling everyone to look for a 5-ft. 4-in. woman with brown eyes and long, recently dyed, dark red hair. He can't stop shuffling from hospital to hospital, can't stop staring at the TV screen. "I want to turn it off, but I can't. I'm hoping that I'll see something, that I'll see her." He owes her this, at the very least...
Others chose to forgo political discussions to concentrate on psychological healing. Nikki Boroni, a musician from Park Slope, Brooklyn, crouched on the Union Square steps in front of a sprawling series of messages, which passersby had scribbled on the ground with pastel sidewalk chalk...
...three of us made our way to the Seaport, and then north along the East River under the FDR. After about 25 minutes of fast-paced walking (running was impossible because of the number of people around us), we finally reached the Brooklyn Bridge—and blessed daylight. By the time we reached the Bridge, we had heard so many rumors from others walking, that I genuinely believed the entire East Coast of the United States had been attacked. According to those around me (and the occasional snippet from the radio), not only had the World Trade Center...