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American ground, unbuilding the World Trade Center / William Langewiesche. [print]

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Langewiesche, William [Author]

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HV6432.L277.A447 2002
HV6432

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Rush to recover -- Dance of the dinosaurs.

Subject: At the center of the book is the team of engineers, many of them instrumental in building the towers, who now must collaborate in the sad task of disassembling them. Their responses are as dramatic and unpredictable as the shifting pile of rubble and the surrounding "slurry wall" that constantly threatens to collapse, potentially flooding a large part of underground Manhattan. They are also emotional and territorial, as firemen, police, widows, and officials attempt to claim the tragedy-and the difficult work of extracting the rubble and the thousands of dead buried there-as their own.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Withdrawn	G. Allen Fleece Library WITHDRAWN	Non-fiction	HV6432.L364 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1 Not for loan		31923001082177

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The inner world -- Rush to recover -- Dance of the dinosaurs.

At the center of the book is the team of engineers, many of them instrumental in building the towers, who now must collaborate in the sad task of disassembling them. Their responses are as dramatic and unpredictable as the shifting pile of rubble and the surrounding "slurry wall" that constantly threatens to collapse, potentially flooding a large part of underground Manhattan. They are also emotional and territorial, as firemen, police, widows, and officials attempt to claim the tragedy-and the difficult work of extracting the rubble and the thousands of dead buried there-as their own.

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