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...ZERO GRAVITY HASN'T HURT...
...Still, the dominant mood in 11'09"01 is finger-pointing. The contribution by India's Mira Nair documents the agony of a Muslim boy in Brooklyn accused of conspiring with terrorists when he had actually gone to ground zero in a rescue effort. Several of the pieces?set in Chile (Ken Loach), Israel (Amos Gitai), Bosnia (Danis Tanovic)?make a single hectoring, helpful point: our countries have suffered atrocities for years, decades, centuries; welcome to the club, America. Egypt's Youssef Chahine argues that Islamic militants have the right to kill civilians in the U.S. and Israel because these...
...member LANCE BASS a place on its October mission. The agency raised the velvet rope after a consortium of Bass backers failed to cough up the $20 million cover charge required for entry onto the Soyuz space capsule. Bass had been training in Moscow and Houston, completing maneuvers in zero gravity and learning Russian, but his backers, including a production company hoping to film a documentary of the trip, missed several payment deadlines. Bass's seat will not go empty. In his place the Russians are sending a cargo container packed with supplies for astronauts already on the International Space...
Faces of Ground Zero time.com/faces In the days following 9/11, LIFE and TIME photographer Joe McNally took pictures of nearly 300 rescue workers and survivors with the world's largest Polaroid camera. The result was a moving record of the people at the WTC site and a traveling exhibit, "Faces of Ground Zero." The exhibit returns to New York City on Tuesday, Sept. 10. You can view the photos and watch a video about how they were made at TIME.com...
...several big-name firms in a competition to design the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.) Rockwell invited Diller + Scofidio to work on a project that was never built, but the two firms got on so well that they worked together on building a viewing platform at ground zero in New York City...