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Bush choppered into lower Manhattan Friday to stand at the center of the terrorist winter, surrounded by men and women working day and night to help the living and recover the dead. He had come to thank the people the whole world wanted to thank--the cops and fire fighters, the pipe fitters and welders who had left their jobs uptown to pull up the ruins downtown, the paramedics working 36-hour shifts. As much as anyone or anything, it was the images of these people doing their grim, ceaseless work that kept the country together. Bush was at home...
...billion that Congress has pledged to help rebuild lower Manhattan and beef up airport security, among other things, will create jobs. And there will be even more spent on the military and possibly on bailouts for such hard-hit industries as airlines and insurers. For those who worry about potential deficit spending--get over it. Economic growth is the priority now. The Social Security "lockbox" was political propaganda anyway. It's all one big budget, and more of it might now be used to cut the tax most people pay on capital gains (remember when you had those...
...remains are put into one of the 30,000 body bags Mayor Rudolph Giuliani ordered, and taken to staging areas near the blast, including what was once a Brooks Brothers store. From there they are shipped in refrigerated trucks to the medical examiner's office in midtown Manhattan for identification. Because of the number of dead, and the condition of the remains, identification is not always easy. The families of the missing have been asked to fill a seven-page form with information about the victims' dental records, scars, tattoos and inscriptions on wedding rings. Blood relatives have been asked...
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...
Many of the businesses housed in the destroyed buildings will be moved to the downtown Manhattan space abandoned by failed dotcoms and the midtown offices of the recently laid-off. But megabusinesses that need acres of contiguous space are looking elsewhere. American Express, for example, which until Tuesday occupied a building near the Twin Towers that is now inaccessible, is reported to have signed leases in New Jersey. And the Wall Street Journal, forced to evacuate its World Financial Center headquarters on Tuesday, swiftly regrouped in makeshift offices in South Brunswick, N.J., and came out with an issue the next...