BANGKOK AFP — Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage, who stars in Oliver Stone's "World Trade Center", has defended the film, brushing off criticism that Hollywood was cashing in on the September 11 terror attacks too soon. "It's important to look at tragedy and to learn from it," the 42-year-old told a...
As people around the nation remember the series of devastating terrorist attacks on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, NLC President James Hunt, councilmember, Clarksburg, W.Va., joins the nation in mourning the confirmed 2,973 people who died and 24 who remain missing on the 5th anniversary of the...
LOS ANGELES AFP — Two Hollywood movies that asked US audiences to live through the September 11, 2001 attacks again on theater screens proved wounds from the tragedy were still tender across the country. British director Paul Greengrass's "United 93" and Oliver Stone's "World Trade Center" weren't the first or...
COLLEEN MOLTER'S IT staffing business, QED National, borrows money to smooth out cash flow during rapid growth and also during times of tragedy--like when the World Trade Center attacks put many of her best customers out of business. QED needed serious help to continue operations and rebuild after 9/11....
Early Sunday morning at "ground zero" in New York City is eerily quiet. Although the viewing platform is part of a train-bus transit center hub that will, no doubt, be bustling later, my family is alone except for the man who approaches to sell us a souvenir remembrance book documenting...
"Business as usual ended last Tuesday, not just in New York and Washington, but in places of work throughout Northeast Ohio.'' The story about the extensive psychological aftershocks felt by Northeast Ohio's work force because of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001,...
By Gaylord Shaw SPECIAL TO NEWSDAY OKLAHOMA CITY -- The cover of the Official Record of the Oklahoma City Bombing offers a subtle sample of this state's determined effort to memorialize the moment -- and the consequences -- of the terrorist bombing of a federal...
NEW YORK -- For generations, visitors to New York City have headed to Times Square, the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty. But since Sept. 11, 2001, another landmark has been on the must-see list: The site where 2,792 people died in the attacks on the World Trade...
When the commission investigating the 9/11 attacks held public hearings near Ground Zero this week, it stirred up plenty of raw emotion -- and finger-pointing. Some commissioners and New York police and fire officials tangled over whether the city was prepared to handle the tragedy. And families in the...
Aug 19, 2003 (Lloyd's List Daily Commercial News - ABIX via COMTEX) Billions are being spent to prevent shipping tragedies like "Prestige". There was so much debate about the "Prestige" disaster in which nobody died. On the other hand, nearly 4,400 people were...
Tragedies such as the collapse of the World Trade Center towers and, more recently, the Rhode Island nightclub fire, have prompted producers and proponents of firewalls to become more vocal about the need for such walls to increase fire safety in buildings. When one thinks of flame-retardant and...
After being stung by last years World Trade Center WTC tragedy, BRIT is now making solid underwriting profits. And with almost all of its managed capacity under its belt, it is the companys shareholders - not Lloyds Names - who benefit from those profits. ...
By Cathleen Ferraro, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 24--Cement chunks from the World Trade Center. Television news footage of the Columbine school shootings. A hefty pile of debris from the space shuttle Columbia. For disaster...
More than a year has passed since September 11, 2001. The anniversary of the event brings it back to mind. The world had seemed one way, and then suddenly another. We also remember the days following that day, when all our projects and preoccupations, so demanding and self-important, were thrown...
Country singer Alan Jackson, who scored earlier this year with "Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning" -- his tribute to victims of the Sept. 11 tragedy at the World Trade Center and elsewhere -- a few years ago featured the Twin Towers in one of...
Edward Robbins looks at how architects have responded to 11 September. The immediate aftermath of the attack of 11 September on the World Trade Center in New York brought out the best in so many people: unfortunately not architects. Fireman, policemen, and rescue workers risked and even lost their...
An Estee Lauder retail deal at 100 Church St., which was completed downtown prior to the World Trade Center attack on Sept. 11, will proceed according to plan, although actual move-in will be delayed due to the massive clean-up efforts under way in the area. Jordon Roth, an Associate...
National Construction Rentals has donated their time, labor and materials to the World Trade Center and the Pentagon tragedies. John Shevchik, district manager and Barry Goldberg, preferred account representative, along with the efforts of 20 of the best fence installers in the industry, worked tirelessly throughout many long days and...
Byline: Ames Boykin Daily Herald Staff Writer John Quinn's reaction to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks is sitting in the lobby of the Elk Grove Village Public Library. Quinn, a Chicago dentist originally from Elk Grove Village, created a sculpture capturing...
Moore, Melody Deniece Michigan Chronicle 09-17-2002 In the midst of the tragedies of Sept. 11, several Detroiters found new life with family and friends, and they have been clinging on to it ever since. Shanita Eccles gave birth to her...
