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...Ground Zero at a rate of a dozen dump trucks an hour; as of Saturday, the city had already hauled out more than 20,000 tons of debris. It is being driven over the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, which is closed to traffic, to a 3,000-acre landfill on Staten Island that used to be the city's main dump. The FBI then sifts all the debris for evidence. By the time the operation is completed, an estimated 100,000 dump-trucks' worth of rubble will have been moved there. The name of the 53-year-old landfill, which...
...Shallow men believe in luck," Ralph Waldo Emerson famously wrote, but World Trade Center employees who happened to miss work on Sept. 11 must think him a fool. We heard these stories all week, and they gave us a national case of goose bumps: the bus from Staten Island missed for the first time in four years, the car that needed repairing, the long-debated trip to Israel taken last week that proved safer than staying home. Even the most rational person lists toward superstition after hearing the stories. Was there a reason? Is God making choices...
...therefore eligible for 12-and-under Little League play. Danny pitched for the Paulino team in the summer of 2000, and his performance--he had a real curveball to go along with his nasty heater--as well as the play of some teammates raised suspicions. Backers of a Staten Island team spent $10,000 on a private eye this summer, hoping to prove Paulino had been importing ringers from the D.R. The gumshoe came up empty...
...staying here in Chelmsford? I heard you weren't from here. I heard you were from New York, and figured you came up to see the Staten Island club...
RUDY GIULIANI N.Y.C. mayor fires his estranged wife's staff. Next week he'll fight her for custody of Staten Island...