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World Trade Center: Buildings
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Eight years ago, the World Trade Center was a terrorist target when a truck bomb killed six people and wounded about 1,000 others. Just the death toll on the planes alone could surpass the 168 people killed in the 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City.
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The Destruction of Evidence from Ground Zero at the World Trade Center following the events of September 11, 2001, occurred, even though the criminal code requires that crime scene evidence be kept for forensic analysis. FEMA had steel recovered from the building rubble destroyed or shipped overseas before a serious investigation could take place.
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The recovery, cleanup and rebuilding of the World Trade Center site all employ large fleets of diesel vehicles, from construction trucks to back-up generators. At the three sites closest to Ground Zero where samples for the study were collected, the levels of sulfur, which indicates the presence of diesel pollution, were much higher than at uptown sites.
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“World Trade Center,” once it moves past the shocking events of 9/11, lacks narrative momentum. The inexperience of its screenwriter shows in the domestic scenes, which Stone directs in such a timid fashion that the picture threatens to turn into soap opera. Utterly missing is a motive, which “United 93” clearly and concisely established as Islamic fanaticism.
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[I]n 1994, Cetron will write in a Futurist magazine article about the report, “Targets such as the World Trade Center not only provide the requisite casualties but, because of their symbolic nature, provide more bang for the buck. In order to maximize their odds for success, terrorist groups will likely consider mounting multiple, simultaneous operations with the aim of overtaxing a government’s ability to respond, as well as demonstrating their professionalism and reach.”
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The untitled film is the fact-based story of the last two men--Port Authority police officers John McLoughlin and William J. Jimeno--rescued from the collapse of the World Trade Center. The film follows their ordeals and the efforts of their rescuers. Cage stars as one of the cops. "The film is a portrayal of how the human spirit rose above the tragic events of that day," Paramount says in a press release. Announced Friday--just a day after terror attacks in London--the film has no release date. But according to Variety, the project has been fast-tracked and is already in preproduction.
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