LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Newark: United States
built 605 days ago
PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y., March 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Elizabeth Wilford, a seventh grade student from Newark, won the Delaware state championship in the third annual Reader's Digest National Word Power Challenge(SM) today in Claymont. The top 100 statewide winners competed for a trip to the finals during the state championships held in all 50 states, Washington D.C. and the Department of Defense Schools.On April 17-19, the state champions and their teacher-escorts will travel to Walt Disney World(R) Resort, Orlando, to compete for $50,000 in college scholarships. The first place winner will receive a $25,000 college scholarship. Second and third place winners will receive college scholarships of $15,000 and $10,000. The winners will ... receive Reader's Digest products for their schools.
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Newark's downtown ... saw growth in the post-riot decades. Less than two weeks after the riots, Prudential announced plans to underwrite a $24 million office complex near Penn Station, dubbed "Gateway." Today, Gateway houses thousands of white-collar workers, though few live in Newark. The buildings themselves were not designed with consideration for pedestrians. In the mid-1980s, plans were developed to build the 121-story
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United Airlines Flight 93 pushed back from gate A17 at 8:01 am, on its way from Newark to San Francisco International Airport, on September 11, 2001. Two hours later it would crash into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, when passengers attempted to take over the plane from a team of hijackers. Based on the direction that the plane was flying at the time and information gathered afterwards, most observers believe that the hijackers intended to crash the plane into a target in Washington, D.C., such as the Capitol or White House. In memory of this event, the airport's name was changed from Newark International Airport to Newark Liberty International Airport. This name was chosen over the initial proposal, Liberty International Airport at Newark, and refers to the landmark Statue of Liberty, just 7 miles (11 km) east of the airport. Despite the name change few locals call it by its new name.
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