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Experts to Begin Study to Make Buildings Resilient
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A team of engineers with expertise in high-rise design, collapses and blasts will investigate why the damaged World Trade Center buildings and part of the Pentagon crumbled after Tuesday's deadly attack and determine how future buildings can be designed to preserve more lives during catastrophes. | | More Science Headlines... |
WAR ON HUSSEIN
It stokes our fury to see or read about demonstrations in parts of the Mideast cheering the devastation of the hijackers. The reality, which at first brings a measure of human understanding, on reflection makes things worse.
William F. Buckley
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The Empire State Building is lit red, white and blue as the smoke of the World Trade Center collapse rises above lower Manhattan Sunday, Sept. 16, 2001, in New York. The landmark building honored those who lost their lives in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon Tuesday. (AP Photo/ Beth A. Keiser)
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| Today in History | | On Sept. 17, 1787, the Constitution of the United States was completed and signed by a majority of delegates attending the constitutional convention in Philadelphia. See what else happened, and who has a birthday, on this day in history. |
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