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Here is part two of our semi-chronological look back at the top stories this past year (here is part one):

Today, much of the media is concentrating on September 11 coverage. On our local channels, there's extended TV coverage of memorial events in the city and WABC, WNBC and WCBS has taken over from the national broadcasts (NY1 has live audio and live video). MSNBC is repeating the Today Show from September 11, 2001. And the newspapers have a fair amount of coverage - the NY Times runs a banner headline and devote all of above-the-fold to September 11 (it's about 3/5th of the whole front page), the Daily News has a stark white-type-on-black background cover with the times when the planes hit the towers, and the Post has a photo of the Bushes at Ground Zero - and hey there's a $6 million Monopoly card game.

The evidence keeps piling up. Yesterday, Mount Sinai released a study showing that about 70% of Ground Zero workers have respiratory issues. The study was conducted amongst 9,442 workers who were at Ground Zero in the days after September 11, with the majority of them having "new or worsened chronic breathing conditions since responding to the attacks." Mount Sinai Medical Center's Dr. Robin Herbert said, ""There should no longer be any doubt about the health effects of the World Trade Center. Our patients are sick and are going to need health monitoring and treatment for the rest of their lives." Further, the head of Mount Sinai's community and preventive medicine Philip Landrigan said, "What these people inhaled was extremely toxic. It was pulverized dust. It was like Drano. It penetrated deep in the lungs, deep in the sinus cavities."