The Tragic Sublime and Concrete Rubble
29235
Anselm Kiefer continues to transform raw materials into art in this show at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.
764214
The ugly concrete campus of Paris 6  university is dominated by a tower that has been a building  site for eleven years as asbestos is removed. Nobody seems to  be able to pinpoint when the work will finish.
316669
OCEAN CITY, N.J. - As if shooting a loved one's ashes into space or pressing them into artificial diamonds were not sufficiently offbeat, relatives of the deceased now can have their ashes mixed into concrete to help form ocean habitats...
157669
By ALEX CUKAN  Residents of Lower Manhattan caught in the toxic dust cloud after the World Trade Center collapse on Sept. 11, 2001, were told by city officials to clean their homes with a wet rag.
317855
A computer simulation of the September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center, posted on the Web site YouTube by Purdue University researchers, shows how hijacked planes crashed through the twin towers, stripping fireproofing materials from the steel columns and eventually leading to their collapse.
57632
Three years after 9/11, Manhattan looks shiny and clean. But what has become of its icons: its money, its people and, of course, Rudy? An update on a mending metropolis
760439
From terrorism to the tech meltdown, here's a look at how a perfect storm gave rise to a boom and then a new meltdown.
453919
Un gran fragore ha sconvolto la notte della cittÃ  pugliese. In una zona popolare crolla un edificio. Uccise due intere famiglie, 3 bambini tra le vittime. Al momento sono 8 i feriti, due gravi. Una persona risulta dispersa.
599998
The car bombing at the Mutanabi Street market, the embodiment of Baghdadâs venerable intellectual history, had symbolic resonance.
206321
The story of the Charleston fire that killed nine firefighters is one of senseless loss-and of valor in the face of grave danger
583884
The building-materials specialist bears the brunt of the downturn.
620920
n the wreckage left by the devastating one-two punch of Hurricanes Charley and Frances, engineers, researchers and others are finding some hope that this combination of disasters may do
172040
Piles of trash building up in Naples  have filled the air with a putrid stench and spoiled the view  for tourists, but the city's waste crisis may also be killing  its people.
147743
Hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, wildfires: a year after Katrina, a tour of the American hazardscape shows that we haven't learned much
545917
Expensive yachts were beached, tossed to the shore like toys. Well-built homes were reduced to splintered wood, or left without roofs. Utility poles and palm trees were snapped in two or uprooted.
65295
In the context of the clinical demolition of Fallujah where an apparently unarmed and wounded Iraqi was shot by a US Marine, there are deaths that pierce the soul in a way that even that death in a war zone cannot.
477280
The closer New Yorkers were to the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, the more vivid their memories are of the disaster that brought down the buildings.