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-Tomorrow is the fourth anniversary of 9/11. Services start at Ground Zero in the early morning. Moments of silence will be observed at 8:46, 9:03, 9:59 and 10:29 A.M.. The Tribute in Light will be on from dusk until dawn from it's new West and Morris Streets location. Other events are also planned.
-The Times' Nicolai Ouroussoff says that the Ground Zero rebuilding effort has turned into a "hallucinogenic nightmare: a roller coaster ride of grief, naïveté, recriminations, political jockeying and paranoia."
-500 relatives of 9/11 victims rallied against the International Freedom Center at the World Trade Center site today.
-The Pentagon will celebrate 9/11 under super tight security.
-A new GAO report says that the government failed to monitor the health of thousands of federal workers who helped untangle the 9/11 wreckage.
-The mystery of the lone 9/11 fatal shooting remains unsolved.

-An off-duty corrections officer died today in a gun battle with the police after opening fire on a Harlem street, killing his ex-girlfriend's boyfriend.
-Amtrak is going to raise fares to counter higher energy prices.
-Fashion Week goes on and on and on.

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By Garth Johnston in Miscellaneous on September 10, 2005 3:22 PM

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pugsley

The plans for the International Freedom Center should have been scrapped a long time ago. From what I've heard about the plans so far it sounds like pure P.C. playground for eggheads.

dumb republican

damn those iraqis for blowing up our twin towers! fucking saddam hussein deserves to be cut up and disemboweled for sending those planes.

Darth Vader

I see you have constructed a new light saber.

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Minoru

Actually, twin towers, the old world trade center took longer to build.

Like it is

From Birdwatchers Digest:

September 11th memorial, Tribute in Light, Trapped Migrating Birds in 2004 When migrating birds moved toward the huge floodlights that make up a part of New York City's 2004 September 11th Tribute in Light memorial, their internal navigation systems failed and they became disoriented and trapped for hours. This account provides a description—and a potential solution—to this unfortunate occurrence.

http://www.birdwatchersdigest.com/site/birdwire/tribute_light.aspx

The beams were visibly filled with chaotically swirling birds. They looked like clouds of bugs. Their twittering was audible. Their brightly illuminated bodies were reflected in the windows of nearby buildings —from a distance they looked like sparkling motes or glitter floating in the light. The beams were so bright, that some birds looked as though they were on fire.

twin towers

How is it that the planned launch of the new WTC is in 2010? Nearly nine years after 9/11. Did the old WTC take that long to plan and build?