FEDS&#39; WTC PLAN SCRUBS CLEANUP FOR DOWNTOWN
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even if they&#39;re still contaminated from the World Trade Center attacks. Three years after the Twin Towers&#39; collapse and eight months
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Twenty-five hundred tons of concrete, 350 tons of steel and nine tons of aluminum window frames will be left after a seven-story downtown building is taken down. But instead of ending in the scrap heap, the concrete will be ground up and used to fill the site, steel will be melted to create rebar and the aluminum will be reused in cans and other products.
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Their handover of the city is another opportunity for the US to wash its hands of a "mess" for which it has no solution
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By JUSTIN M. NORTON  SAN FRANCISCO - An effort to clean up some of the city's seedier neighborhoods and rid the streets of junkies, hookers and runaways has run headlong into San Francisco's free-to-be-who-you-are ethos.
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The city ordered fire inspectors to examine hundreds of buildings under construction or demolition after an investigation found numerous planning and safety failures at an abandoned ground zero skyscraper where two firefighters died.
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The agency that owns the WTC site announces plans to sue Saudi Arabia on the eve of the 9/11 anniversary.
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High levels of asbestos, lead and other contaminants have been found in a vacant skyscraper badly damaged during the 2001 terror attacks, potentially complicating the rebuilding of ground zero.
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Workers on Thursday began removing the cross-shaped steel beams that were left standing in the rubble of the World Trade Center five years ago, and prepared to move them to a temporary home at a nearby church. The 20-foot-tall artifact was discovered in the smoking ruins two weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and became a symbol for recovery workers, family and later construction crews at the site.
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Manhattan's tower of steam is just one more dramatic example of the cost of letting urban infrastructure deteriorate
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RockvilleÂs new mixed-use downtown aims to avoid the ÂAnyplace U.S.A.Â look.
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The city planned Wednesday to release hours of emergency calls from Sept. 11, 2001, after Fire Department officials said they had discovered hundreds of internal recordings made by firefighters who went to rescue people from the burning twin towers.
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The new tower planned for the World Trade Center site has a lot more going for it than its 1,776-foot height -- it will include an array of environmentally friendly power sources. By John Gartner.
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By The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Sep. 21--What started out as a simple dredging proposal to improve navigation at the base of Budd Inlet has turned into a costly need to clean up chemical contamination in the inlet.
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The Port Authority of New York and New   Jersey on Thursday formally approved rebuilding plans for the   site of the World Trade Center destroyed in the September 11,   2001, attacks.
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By Mike Snyder, Houston Chronicle  Feb. 27--Mayor Bill White has proposed a temporary ban on demolition of historic buildings in the Old Sixth Ward while he develops a plan to permanently protect the neighborhood's unique, Victorian-era houses.
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Personal photographs recovered from the ruins of the World Trade Center are to be returned to families.
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Plans to build the Freedom Tower and   three other skyscrapers at Ground Zero were formally approved   on Thursday in a deal that would see the former World Trade   Center site rebuilt by 2012.