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Nearly all the problems in the reconstitution of ground zero begin with one essential issue: Who will be in control? As the agency that helped create the World Trade Center, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, a bistate-funded agency, owns the land on the WTC site, but it sold the "leaseholder" rights to the towers to Silverstein in 2001--six weeks before Sept. 11--for $3.2 billion...
...constraint on its potential audience. Ernest calls it a "great introductory park." They also point out that the company plans to keep adding new attractions at Hong Kong Disneyland, including an updated version of Disney's classic Autopia racing game, scheduled to open this summer. The government is reclaiming land on an adjoining site to expand the park further. But James Zoltak, editor of Amusement Business, a trade magazine for the theme-park industry, says Disney isn't moving quickly enough: it needs to "get on a crash course in terms of expansion. The rate of building...
...Still Struggling in Kashmir Strangely enough, beauty with brains and guts is what comes to my mind when I think of Kashmir [April 17]. My assumptions about the war-broken land were completely proved wrong when I visited two years ago. I had expected to find dismay and destruction in this problematic region; instead I found an optimistic and budding economy trying to put its past behind it. To see Kashmir in ruins again pains me, but I know it will make a comeback. Urfa Suhaib Khan Lahore...
...hoped to find buried treasure), the scrolls have stirred up perhaps the most vigorous debate in Christianity since Darwin ... The majority verdict: the scrolls do not shake the foundations of Christianity, but they greatly contribute to the understanding of those foundations ... The fragments ... make a strange kind of shadow land. Some carry familiar Biblical names ... others are single words or phrases, hanging like abrupt cries in the air of history. All are tackled by the scholars ... At one end of the room, the fragments are prepared for mounting. Those too brittle to be uncurled are placed in a humidifier ... Then...
GREAT FALLS, Mont. — Blame Canada. For it was a half-dozen daft nationals of that northern land who caused me to reconsider what charity means...