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Twin Towers: World Trade Center
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"Reports have been conflicting about how much asbestos was installed in the twin towers, which were built between 1966 and 1973, or how much might have remained there at the time of the collapse. Guy F. Tozzoli, the physicist-engineer who headed overall development of the World Trade Center throughout its construction and remained there until 1987, says asbestos was only used in the first 39 floors of the Tower One, the first building struck Tuesday and the second one to fall. After that, other materials were used at an additional cost of over $400,000, he says. 'There was no asbestos used anywhere else in the buildings,' says Tozzoli, who currently is president of the World Trade Center Association." (David France and Erika Check, "Asbestos Alert", Newsweek/MSNBC, Sept. 14).
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Five Israelis were seen filming as jetliners ploughed into the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. Were they part of a massive spy ring which shadowed the 9/11 hijackers and knew that al-Qaeda planned a devastating terrorist attack on the USA? There was ruin and terror in Manhattan, but, over the Hudson River in New Jersey, a handful of men were dancing. As the World Trade Center burned and crumpled, the five men celebrated and filmed the worst atrocity ever committed on American soil as it played out before their eyes. Who do you think they were? Palestinians?
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Ultimately the complex came to consist of seven buildings, but its most notable features were the main twin towers. Each of the WTC towers had 110 stories. 1 WTC (the North Tower, which featured a massive 360-foot (110 m) high TV and radio antenna added in 1978) stood 1,368 feet (417 m) high,[20] and 2 WTC (the South Tower, which contained the observation deck) was 1,362 feet (415 m) high.[20] The length and breadth of the towers were 208 feet (63.4 m) x 208 feet (63.4 m). Although only Tower 1 featured an antenna, the structure of each building was designed to carry a broadcast mast, and in the basement of the complex, The Mall at the World Trade Center was Manhattan's largest mall until 9-11.
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More than 14,000 lawyers have not been able to get to their offices since a terrorist attack obliterated the twin World Trade Center towers Tuesday, according to data released by the Office of Court Administration. The OCA data revealed a staggering amount of disruption in the ability of lawyers to function. The 14,000 displaced lawyers make up 10.3 percent of attorneys in the state and 19 percent of the lawyers in New York City.
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The World Trade Center was more than its signature twin towers: it was a complex of seven buildings on 16-acres, constructed and operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ). The towers, One and Two World Trade Center, rose at the heart of the complex, each climbing more than 100 feet higher than the silver mast of the Empire State Building.
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The poster for Oliver Stone's "World Trade Center" offers a stark depiction of the twin towers as monoliths flanking two men who defied the odds to emerge from the ruins. The two are Port Authority cops - Sgt. John McLoughlin and Officer Will Jimeno - the last two 9/11 heroes recovered alive after the towers collapsed.
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