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...real; no hedging about that. Hans Christian Andersen wrote that famous fairy tale about The Most Incredible Thing, a beautiful, intricate clock that was smashed to bits by an ax, which act was then judged to be the most incredible thing. No fairy tales required this week. Where the Twin Towers were, there is now only empty...
...Pashto- and Persian-language services. Because the country's Taliban rulers forbid television, Afghans could see no pictures of the destruction that had people everywhere else glued to their sets. The immensity of the World Trade Center had to be described. When Afghans asked me about the Twin Towers, I compared them to Afghanistan's giant Bamiyan Buddha statues, a symbol of national heritage that the Taliban blasted to dust six months...
There is, of course, no technical obstacle to reconstructing the Twin Towers, and some terrorism experts think there are good reasons for doing so. "You want to send the message that we won't allow this to permanently change our society," says Ric Stoll, professor of international relations at Rice University. Rebuilding would be one way to get that message across...
...restoring the Twin Towers is a different proposition. The cost would run into billions of dollars, and it's hard to imagine tenants lining up for space in buildings that would be targets for terrorists even before they went up. On the other hand, this field of rubble occupies one of the world's most valuable pieces of real estate in an area where tens of thousands of people need a place to work. Another possibility, therefore, would be to rebuild but in a different form that would allow the new structures to serve as a memorial to those...
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