Finding May Delay Ground Zero Rebuilding
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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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By Rowena Coetsee, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Sep. 20--Work on city streets that were wearing out abnormally fast because they contained a defective building material is expected to be finished by this time next year.
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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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The view of ground zero just got a little smaller. The agency that oversaw the redesign of the World Trade Center site on Thursday stopped posting on its Web site hourly images from a camera pointed at ground zero.
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The search for the remains of Sept. 11 victims has moved across the street from the site of the World Trade Center to the lot of a destroyed church, where important relics, including the bones of three saints, may also be buried.
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In earthquake's 'ground zero', halting relief work begins amid tales of survival.
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NEW YORKâA few weeks ago, some family members visited me in New York, where I&#39;ve lived for the last six years. They took in the usual attractions and then decided they wanted to check out Ground Zero, the
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For a while, it seemed the sky was the limit for the grand public works that sprang off the drawing boards during New York's recovery from the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
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More than 80 percent of the city's steel-framed high rise buildings have not been inspected for possible damage from the 1994 Northridge earthquake, and officials said they fear the extent of any problems may not be known until the next big quake hits.
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Builders of a $275 million residential and retail complex on East Boston's waterfront unexpectedly delayed construction last month, a setback to a project critical to the neighborhood's economic future.
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With housing's recovery still uncertain, two cement stocks merit investigation.
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U.S. commanders say they've learned from past mistakes and are trying to lay the foundation for stability as they clear insurgents from this battleground city. But it's a slow process at a time when Congress and the U.S. public are demanding speedy results.
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For many of the employees of the state and federal agencies, the memories of Sept. 11 were still too fresh to consider a return to ground zero.
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By Chris Mazzolini, Star-News, Wilmington, N.C.  Jun. 5--Developers waiting to build in Wilmington's North Side might  discover that being first in line isn't good enough.
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At ground zero, some 80 feet below the street, workers are pushing to complete excavations for two new office towers.
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Three years after the Sept. 11 attacks, more than 120,000 hours of potentially valuable terrorism-related recordings have not yet been translated by linguists at the
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Federal investigators have largely ruled out a design flaw as a central factor in the collapse of the World Trade Center towers.