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New York's One World Trade Center spire finally goes up
New York City can once again claim to be home to the tallest building in the country, and the Western Hemisphere for that matter. On Friday, workers topped off the new One World Trade Center building with a spire making the structure 1,776 feet tall,...
Tags: Government, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Career and Workplace, Employees, Politics
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World Trade Center reaches new heights with permanent spire
A spire set atop One World Trade Center on Friday was greeted with cheers from workers high in the air and spectators from the street below. The 408-foot spire, draped in an American flag, brought the New York City structure to a height of 1,776 feet,...
Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Statue of Liberty, Today (tv program), One World Trade Center
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Tilda Swinton sleeps in a box at MoMA and Twitter is amused
The tall stalk of pale, Scottish androgyny known as Tilda Swinton has brought her 1995 performance-art piece "The Maybe" to the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The piece, which requires the Oscar-winning actress to lie inside a transparent box for hours...
Tags: James Franco, Arts and Culture, Tilda Swinton, Arts, Twitter, Inc.
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PASSINGS: Jim Sweeney, Ira Rubin, Guy Tozzoli
Jim Sweeney Coach transformed Fresno State football Jim Sweeney, 83, who called Fresno State "a sleeping giant" when he arrived as its football coach in 1976 and then awakened the university — and the region — with 19 years of...
Tags: Oakland Raiders, NFL Draft, Korean War (1950-1953), Health and Safety at School, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Stranded Carnival cruise ship expected to dock Thursday evening
MOBILE, Ala. -- A stranded Carnival cruise ship being towed is expected to arrive in Mobile on Thursday evening, and officials said that although unusual, they do not expect delays bringing the ship into port after dark. A Carnival spokesman held a...
Tags: Transportation Industry, Mexico, Trips and Vacations, Cruises, U.S. Coast Guard
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New delay possible for Carnival cruise ship as relatives wait
MOBILE, Ala. -- Relatives descended on the port’s cruise ship terminal here Thursday morning at daybreak, prepared to greet the 4,200 passengers and crew members trapped aboard a Carnival cruise ship being slowly towed to harbor by several tug...
Tags: Transportation Industry, Media Industry, Mexico, Trips and Vacations, Cruises
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Port strike in eastern U.S. averted with 30-day contract extension
The labor contract covering more than 15,000 dockworkers at 14 Eastern Seaboard and Gulf Coast ports has been extended for 30 more days, heading off a strike that could have begun as early as Sunday. George H. Cohen, director of the Federal Mediation...
Tags: International Relations, Collective Contract, National Retail Federation, Career and Workplace, Wage Contract Issues
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Metrolink hires New York rail director as new chief
L.A. NOWThe Metrolink commuter railroad Friday hired a veteran transit leader with more than three decades of experience as its new chief executive, replacing John Fenton, who left the agency in May to head a Florida-based rail company. Members of the...... -
Day of terror in New York: Pages from a reporter's 9/11 journal
The brown-leather journal is my passport to Sept. 11, 2001. When I hold it in my hands, images and memories are no further away than yesterday.
I had no notebook with me when my husband and I dropped our children, 8 and 4, at school that morning. Then...Tags: Times Square, Plastic Surgeons, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Career and Workplace, Skin
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Funding for 9/11 Memorial and Museum faces more questions
The9/11 Memorial and Museum is facing more funding questions as the governors of New York and New Jersey have called on the federal government to step in and contribute more to the management of the site. The two governers have sent a letter to...
Tags: Tom Coburn, Ken Salazar, Daniel Inouye, Andrew Cuomo, National Parks
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Monster Mash: National Sept. 11 Memorial & Museum; Banksy artwork
Culture MonsterThe Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is said to be close to suing the National Sept. 11 Memorial & Museum foundation over hundreds of millions of dollars in disputed costs. Banksy, the anonymous street artist, is causing a stir with a sculpture... -
Tragedy and tourism: 9/11 memorial draws millionth visitor
Nation NowLess than four months after opening, the National September 11 Memorial at the World Trade Center site has welcomed its one millionth visitor. The scar from the nation’s worst terrorist attack appears to be healing and, in fact, is becoming a...
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