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...been demolished. Just safeguarding it has cost the government more than $150 million, and it took the lives of two firefighters in a construction fire last year. The rest of the 16-acre site is a tangle of more than 100 contractors and subcontractors without any real central guidance. Twin Towers developer Larry Silverstein has, in the view of critics, spent too much time litigating and not enough time cooperating. The Environmental Protection Agency first dangerously downplayed health risks immediately after 9/11, and then, as if to compensate, transformed itself into an über-regulator, fighting efforts to streamline some...
There is nothing more important than those ideals, and we are in the midst of a historic presidential race that will help redefine them for the 21st century. There have always been twin strains of patriotism in our history, two different definitions of American exceptionalism: a sense that our greatness is based on our provenance and what we have achieved, and a belief that our greatness lies in our promise and how we attempt to live up to our ideals...
Bishop V. Gene Robinson of the Episcopal Church USA and Bishop Martyn Minns of the Anglican Church of Nigeria are the twin bookends of the current struggle within the worldwide Anglican Communion. Fallen bookends, one might add, insofar as they are the only two Anglican bishops so far to be disinvited from the Communion's once-a-decade Lambeth Conference this July by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams...
Some claim the act of knuckle-bumping began in the 1970s with NBA players like Baltimore Bullets guard Fred Carter. Others claim the fist bump's national debut occurred off the court, citing the Wonder Twins, minor characters in the 1970s Hanna-Barbera superhero cartoon The Superfriends, who famously touched knuckles and cried "Wonder Twin powers, activate!' before morphing into animals or ice sculptures. One might also credit germaphobics for the fist bump's popularity. Deal or No Deal host Howie Mandel reportedly adopted the gesture as a friendly way to avoid his contestants' germs...
Still, something significant is up in Savannah. "I think it will be the No. 2 port in the U.S. within the next decade," says Hamid Moghadam, whose AMB Property owns and operates distribution facilities near ports and airports worldwide. By that, Moghadam means it will continue to trail the twin colossi of L.A. and Long Beach, which he thinks of as one port, but will pass the currently much busier Port of New York/New Jersey...