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The 'Epic Story' Of The Twin Towers

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Abhijeet Chavan
9 September 2002 - 9:00am

A fascinating biography of the ambitious Twin Towers and how the innovations that made the towers possible played a role in their fall. (All 7 chapters available online.)

"James Glanz and Eric Lipton write the biography of the World Trade Center towers — from their dizzying rise to their horrifying, unforgettable fall — and find that some of the same innovations that allowed such ambitious structures to be built became, years later, factors in their demise." [All 7 chapters of the biography are available online. ]

Full Story: The Height Of Ambition
Source: The New York Times, September 7, 2002
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