The Sunday Times - Business
 
February 20, 2005

Lloyd’s makes £500m profit despite disasters
John Waples
 
 THE world’s oldest insurance market, Lloyd’s of London, is expected to emerge from the industry’s costliest year of natural catastrophes with a £500m profit.
The figure will be announced by the insurer’s chairman, Lord Levene, in April. It will mark the third year in succession that the market has reported a profit and underlines its financial revival. The profit will be reached despite a £400m bill that Lloyd’s is expected to pay to Swiss Re and five other insurers over an arbitration ruling relating to the September 11 terrorist attacks.
 
 
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2095-1491454,00.html

Bell tower dedicated to WTC victim
By PAUL NELSON
pnelson@thejournalnews.com
THE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: February 20, 2005)


NYACK — For about 14 minutes yesterday afternoon the sound of bells resonated from high above a Nyack church as knots of people congregated below to reminisce about Stacey Sennas McGowan.

The informal gathering in the memorial garden followed a ceremony to rededicate the bell tower at Grace Episcopal Church in honor of the former Upper Grandview resident who was killed in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center Sept. 11, 2001.

McGowan was a managing director at Sandler O'Neill & Partners Inc. on the 104th floor of the south tower. The Nyack High School graduate lived in New Jersey with her husband and two young children, all of whom attended the ceremony yesterday. They now live in Rhode Island.

Her mother, Fran Sennas of Upper Grandview, championed the effort to have the bells restored in her daughter's memory. That dream became a reality on Christmas Eve when the bells rang for the first time since 1998.

http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dl...WS03/502200302/1019

Memorial Dedicated To 1993 World Trade Center Attack
Permanent Memorial For Both Attacks In Works

POSTED: 2:22 pm EST February 26, 2005
UPDATED: 3:20 pm EST February 26, 2005

NEW YORK -- The Port Authority marked the 12th anniversary of the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on Saturday, dedicating a temporary memorial in New York to the six who died.

The interim memorial contains a piece of the original memorial destroyed on Sept. 11, 2001.

There will eventually be a permanent memorial to the victims of both attacks.

New Jersey acting Gov. Codey said the memory of the 1993 bombing and its victims remains fresh in the minds of us all.

Codey hoped the memorial would give some comfort to the families of the dead.

http://www.wnbc.com/news/4235611/detail.html

Families prepare for final burial after World Trade Center remains identification finished

BY ADAM LISBERG

New York Daily News


NEW YORK - (KRT) - The end of the effort to identify World Trade Center victims will bring a sad new surge of funerals and burials, as families claim the remains of 419 identified people from the city medical examiner's office.

"I want to go through it once. I want my husband's remains to rest in peace," said Marilyn Reich, 57, of Forest Hills, in Queens, N.Y. "I wouldn't have wanted to bury (a coffin) and then have to reopen it."

The medical examiner identified 31 fragments from the body of her husband, Howard. But her rabbi said she could wait to bury him until they were sure no more remains would be matched to him.

"I just wanted them to tell me that they're finished, that it's over," said Reich, who is planning a traditional Jewish burial.

http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/monterey...nation/10997929.htm

February 25, 2005

WTC beam cut to pieces

   By Kristina Wells
   Times Herald-Record
   kwells@th-record.com
   
   Washingtonville – Nearly three years ago, a piece of history arrived here.
   A 7-foot beam of twisted metal from Ground Zero was placed in a corner of the village's public works garage and covered with a black tarp. The World Trade Center relic sat there for more than 2½ years. The beam was supposed to become part of a 9/11 memorial.
   But a community that mourned the loss of five of its own, all of them among New York City's Bravest, turned its back on the artifact.
   And now it's gone.
   It's been hacked into pieces. Some chunks can be accounted for. But the whereabouts of an estimated 50 pocket-sized bits remains a mystery.
   Mayor Leonard Curcio, a retired New York City firefighter instrumental in securing the beam, isn't talking about it. Neither is the village's Department of Public Works superintendent, Kevin Kropchak.
   It was under Kropchak's direction that a department employee spent five days on the public payroll torching and hacking the beam to pieces, sources say. Those pieces, about the size of small Post-it notes, were placed in two boxes. Where the boxes went is unclear.
   "All of a sudden it started getting cut up," says Arthur Jefferies, the DPW worker who retrieved the beam from Ground Zero and hauled it back to Washingtonville on May 21, 2002.

http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2005/02/25/steelgo1.htm

Final 9/11 heartache
 
1,161 forever lost to the fire
 
By ADAM LISBERG
and PAUL H.B. SHIN
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
 
 
Noreen Quinn at service for her son Jimmy, one of those whose remains may never be found. Behind her are sons Michael, at left, and Joseph, right.
 
 
James Quinn, 23, who worked for Cantor Fitzgerald on the 104th floor of WTC.
 
A heartbreaking milestone, long dreaded by the families of many World Trade Center victims, has sadly arrived more than three years after the towers collapsed.
The city medical examiner's office has exhausted all of its attempts to identify the remains of those killed at Ground Zero - robbing more than 1,000 families of at least a small measure of comfort, the Daily News has learned.
 
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/283622p-242977c.html

9/11 Families Fighting For Proper Burial

 
February 24, 2005 — There is an effort to give some 9/11 victims a proper resting place.
 VIDEO: Watch This Story

http://ww2.abc30.com/global/video/popup/po...sion=1&rnd=22140727



2,749 people lost their lives at the World Trade Center site on 9/11. Fewer than 300 bodies would be recovered in the aftermath.

 
Thousands of unidentified human remains yielded the identities of just 1,600 of those lost. Wednesday, the city of New York announced it will no longer attempt to identify any more.Just around 1,100 World Trade Center victims have never been identified and many of their families say they know exactly where they are and want you to know why New York City has abandoned them to a garbage dump.

 
http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/news/022405_nw_sept_11_burials.html

Finalists visit 9-11 crash site in Pennsylvania to flesh out ideas for memorial competition

ALLISON SCHLESINGER

Associated Press


SOMERSET, Pa. - Representatives from five finalists in a design competition met Thursday near the Sept. 11, 2001, crash site of hijacked Flight 93 to gather information that could help them flesh out their concepts for a national memorial.

The finalists have until June 15 to submit their plans to a second jury, which will select a winning design by Sept. 11.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews...nia/10984210.htm?1c

HEARTBREAKING EMPTY GRAVES ARE LEGACY OF 9/11 LOST SOULS

By STEPHANIE GASKELL

February 24, 2005 -- It's a grave without a body — a searing reminder of the violence of that day and the enduring heartache of those whose loved ones were taken from them on 9/11.
Elaine Leinung lost both her son and her cousin in the World Trade Center attacks — but she has been able to bring home only one of them, her cousin.

Now, the city Medical Examiner's Office has called off the effort to identify remains, dashing any hope for the time being that Leinung will be able to bury her son, 22-year-old Paul Battaglia, beneath the headstone that she has for him.

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/22137.htm

West Street Decision Won't Be Easy, but It's Needed Soon
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Published: February 24, 2005
ON the stretch of West Street-Route 9A that runs along the World Trade Center site, the rubber is about to meet the road. Whether the road will be on the surface or in a tunnel, however, is a question only Gov. George E. Pataki can ultimately answer.

http://www.nytimes.com/auth/login?URI=http...0JQ20({3!Q60.r9iZUp!

A new look at a familiar skyline

By Ryan Blackburn
Staff Writer
February 23, 2005


There's more to architecture than just creating inhabitable geometric shapes, a sentiment which Daniel Libeskind, the architect for the new design of the World Trade Center site, stressed to 500 people in the Special Events Center on Tuesday night.

"Plumbing, electrical and structural issues aside," Libeskind said, "the architecture profession closely resembles the task of one who tells a story, and I find that the buildings that we truly love are the buildings which tell a story."

http://www.usforacle.com/vnews/display.v/A...02/23/421c8bb536b6e

Memorials honor fallen heroes
Firefighter helps others remember those who paid the ultimate price
By CLAUDIA FELDMAN
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle


Gary Fountain/For the Chronicle
Firefighter Mike Smith stands in front of a display honoring firefighters at Fire Station 28.
Firefighter Mike Smith used to be good at compartmentalizing. He'd witness some terrible disaster at work, wrap it in mental gauze, file it and move on.

Then 9/11 happened, and Smith found he couldn't compartmentalize and he couldn't move on. He brooded. He grieved. And then, he started building a memorial to the 343 firefighters who died in the aftermath of the attack on the World Trade Center.

The sprawling tribute, on permanent display at Fire Station 28, took Smith six months to complete. In reality, he just paused and kept working. As Houston firefighters lost their lives in the line of duty, he started a second memorial, adding their photos to his station walls.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/features/3052501

Top Ten Most Unusual Memorial Proposals

he open competition for the World Trade Center memorial design – launched in June 2003 and closed with the choice of Reflecting Absence, by Michael Arad in collaboration with Peter Walker – opened the door for a surfeit of amateur proposals. The largest architectural competition in history, the memorial search drew 5201 submissions from 63 countries and 49 states. Project Rebirth scrolled through all 5201 submissions, searching for the most outlandish, impassioned and provocative designs.
The ten selections that follow – in no particular order – were among our favorites.


Mark Wahlberg's Memorial Entry

When the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation called for entries in their open Memorial design competition, they received over 5000 submissions, many of them from amateur -- but earnest -- hopefuls. We combed through all the entries to find the most unusual, unique, and outlandish ideas, choosing our top ten favorites based on originality and heart, regardless of practical concerns. You can see them here, and vote for your favorites!

start at the beginning >>

http://www.projectrebirth.org/rebuild/arch...e/topTen/index.html

 http://www.projectrebirth.org/rebuild/arch...topTen/memVote.html

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National Engineers Week to examine field's opportunities
By Amy Potenza
Published: 2/21/2005
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Engineering students and the entire Syracuse University community will be able to explore the many aspects of engineering all this week.

National Engineers Week will come to SU with a series of daily activities to be held from Thursday, Feb. 17 to Saturday, Feb. 26.

"Even though engineering has a big impact on society, with cell phones, computers and other things, engineers are behind the scenes. Events like Engineering Week put a person in front of the profession," said Can Isik, senior associate dean for academic and student affairs for L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science.

Isik said she hopes these various events will benefit the engineering school and the whole SU community as well and shed more light on the profession.

Engineers Week's featured speaker is Guy Nordenson, founder of Guy Nordenson and Associates and a professor of structural engineering at Princeton University. ECS and the School of Architecture are co-sponsoring Nordenson's lecture, which will be free and open to the public Feb. 23.

Nordenson is the structural engineer for the Freedom Tower, which will be a part of the World Trade Center memorial. Nordenson is also the co-founder of the Structural Engineer's Association of New York and he organized the association's inspections of 400 buildings in the restricted World Trade Center area after the attacks.
 
http://www.dailyorange.com/news/2005/02/21...nities-870911.shtml

February 20, 2005

Scholars explore ties between war and art
  
Eleven scholars from universities in the United States and Canada will take part Saturday in a University of Oregon symposium on "Violence and the Changing Geopolitical Order in Literature and the Arts."
The conference addresses such recent developments as the current war in Iraq and the attack on the World Trade Center.

Presenters address such questions as how we understand violence and force as recurring strategies in history, how we depict violence in creative works and to what extent art and literature are responsible for a changing world order.

http://www.registerguard.com/news/2005/02/....violence.0220.html