World Trade Center

Thousands of first responders, workers, volunteers and local residents involved in the rescue and cleanup of the World Trade Center site, along with workers at the Staten Island landfill where wreckage was taken, are left a decade later with a range of physical and psychological ailments. Respiratory illnesses were among the earliest and most prominent health effects — including the most common one, known as the "World Trade Center cough. " Today, doctors understand World Trade Center cough to be more than just a cough.

It's hard to look at Anna Paquin now and remember her as the speechless 11-year-old accepting the supporting actress Oscar for "The Piano. " What's less hard to remember this year is what an influence young actors can have in films. There's no kids' table this season, as several young performers took on adult-sized roles and themes — dealing with the loss of parents, alcoholism, a national tragedy and basic survival (with such concerns as finding enough food to live on and avoiding becoming an alien's dinner)

For New York City resident Esperanza Muñoz, the attack on the World Trade Centers is not over 10 years later — not by a long shot. At odd moments, the stench of death still rises to her nose, and the 55-year-old woman slides into a haze of nausea and tears. She suffers headaches and is awakened several times a week by nightmares of headless bodies and shoes with bits of feet left inside. She dreads the sound of sirens or a passing plane. Muñoz lives in the New York City borough of Queens, and can't — or won't — go into Manhattan, even to attend her support group for Latinas still scarred by the events of Sept.

"Everyone has their 9/11 story," says Stephen Daldry. "My personal one is not particularly traumatic. " Perhaps not, but it is the beginning of a 10-year period that loops around to the opening of the Daldry-directed "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" in January. Back on Sept. 11, 2001, Daldry and producer Scott Rudin were in a London cutting room together, finishing up "The Hours. " As Daldry recalls, Rudin got a call just after the first plane hit the twin towers. "We went downstairs to the common room and switched to the live footage," Daldry says now. "Whatever work we were doing on 'The Hours' got put on hold.

The affecting "Rebirth" is an ode to the grieving process, a documentary about five people whose lives were knocked sideways by the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001, but who come to some hard-won truths about what it means to move on. What's galvanizing about director Jim Whitaker's effort is its 10-year trajectory as a project: Whitaker began his interviews in 2002, and caught up with his subjects every year, giving the film a unique glimpse into the recovery mechanism of damaged hearts and bewildered minds, how a visage of hollowed-out sorrow after one year becomes a look of more peaceful acceptance down the road.

In the worst terrorist attack ever against the United States, hijackers struck at the preeminent symbols of the nation's wealth and might Tuesday, flying airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and killing or injuring thousands of people. As a horrified nation watched on television, the twin towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan collapsed into flaming rubble after two Boeing 767s rammed their upper stories. A third airliner, a Boeing 757, flattened one of the Pentagon's five sides.

Survivors who escaped the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center had symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder years after the event, a study finds. Researchers from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health surveyed 3,271 survivors two to three years after surviving the attack. About 95% said they had at least one recent post-traumatic stress symptom, and after screening, 15% were positive for PTSD. Only 4.4% reported no symptoms. Several risk factors for PTSD included which tower and floor people were on when the attacks occurred; when they were able to evacuate; exposure to the post-collapse dust cloud; witnessing some horrific scene (seeing a plane hit the towers, witnessing people falling or jumping from the towers)

In a poignant visit to the site that has come to symbolize both the trauma and triumphs arising from the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, President Obama placed a wreath at the fallen World Trade Center on Thursday and said the killing of Osama bin Laden upheld America's vow to "never forget" victims' suffering. As a gusty wind blew flower petals onto the ground, Obama set the wreath of red, white and blue flowers on a simple wooden stand and then stood silently for a minute, head bowed, eyes closed, hands clasped in front of him. A cluster of invited guests, most of them relatives of those killed on Sept.

Re "Plan Chosen for Trade Center Site" (Feb. 27) and the accompanying photo: The winning design for the replacement of the World Trade Center structures is an appalling reminder of what the trade center looked like soon after its destruction. Joseph Denker Studio City

World Trade Center developer Larry Silverstein and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey sued insurers to demand that they pay up on the buildings destroyed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Some insurers have suggested they might not make payments owed for redevelopment because the original plan changed. Silverstein and the Port Authority, which owns the 16-acre site, say the money is essential to rebuilding.

White House officials were planning to commemorate the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks with a carefully calibrated message about the global threat of terrorism when reports of a possible plot aimed at New York and Washington turned the focus squarely back to the home front. The development spotlights the challenge President Obama faces as he leads the nation in a series of emotional ceremonies Sunday. Obama not only seeks to honor those killed 10 years ago, but to also point out his national security accomplishments to assure Americans that he is doing everything possible to keep them safe — a delicate mission that can't appear to exploit a national tragedy.

On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, America woke up, got some coffee, and started its day as if nothing was wrong, as if the world was basically safe and predictable. The big story on NBC's "Today" show was Michael Jordan's upcoming return to the NBA. It was the very definition of a slow news day — until that first jet plane hit the north tower of the World Trade Center. Ten years later, we live in a different reality. The country is fighting two wars, the Middle East is in upheaval, Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein are dead and MJ is in upper management.

For New York City resident Esperanza Muñoz, the attack on the World Trade Centers is not over 10 years later — not by a long shot. At odd moments, the stench of death still rises to her nose, and the 55-year-old woman slides into a haze of nausea and tears. She suffers headaches and is awakened several times a week by nightmares of headless bodies and shoes with bits of feet left inside. She dreads the sound of sirens or a passing plane. Muñoz lives in the New York City borough of Queens, and can't — or won't — go into Manhattan, even to attend her support group for Latinas still scarred by the events of Sept.

Thousands of first responders, workers, volunteers and local residents involved in the rescue and cleanup of the World Trade Center site, along with workers at the Staten Island landfill where wreckage was taken, are left a decade later with a range of physical and psychological ailments. Respiratory illnesses were among the earliest and most prominent health effects — including the most common one, known as the "World Trade Center cough. " Today, doctors understand World Trade Center cough to be more than just a cough.

"Here Is New York: A Democracy of Photographs" by Gilles Peress, Michael Shulan, Charles Traub and Alice Rose George (2002). Perhaps the most stunning visual representation of the tragedy, this collection of nearly 1,000 images - shot by hundreds of photographers, professional and amateur - traces the devastation of the World Trade Center from impact to aftermath, with a clarity made all the more profound by the chaos that impelled it. The title comes...

Maria Khani was at her computer that September morning, working on an Arabic textbook. The small TV on the desk was turned to Al Jazeera. Suddenly, news came: A plane had struck the World Trade Center. Minutes later, she watched the screen as the second plane hit. Khani sat frozen, questions racing through her mind: "Oh, my God, what do I do right now? Is everything that I built … gone?" For five years, she had been planting the seeds of goodwill with Americans of other faiths.

New York's World Trade Center, destroyed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, is memorialized in a new exhibit at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. "Twin Towers Remembered" presents 60 photographs of the 110-story landmarks taken over three decades by Camilo Jose Vergara, whose photo exhibit "El Nuevo Mundo: The Landscape of Latino Los Angeles" created controversy last year over its focus on impoverished immigrant neighborhoods. The World Trade Center exhibit runs through March 10.

The World Trade Center station of the E subway line reopened for the first time since Sept. 11. The station was not damaged Sept. 11 but was closed as part of the "frozen zone" during the recovery effort, New York City Transit President Lawrence Reuter said. The E train, which travels from lower Manhattan into Queens, had been stopping several blocks north of the trade center since Sept. 11. Plans are underway to change the station's name.

The affecting "Rebirth" is an ode to the grieving process, a documentary about five people whose lives were knocked sideways by the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001, but who come to some hard-won truths about what it means to move on. What's galvanizing about director Jim Whitaker's effort is its 10-year trajectory as a project: Whitaker began his interviews in 2002, and caught up with his subjects every year, giving the film a unique glimpse into the recovery mechanism of damaged hearts and bewildered minds, how a visage of hollowed-out sorrow after one year becomes a look of more peaceful acceptance down the road.

For years after he lost his younger brother Mike in the World Trade Center attacks, Brian Lyons would find himself in a strange position. He'd be standing in the backyard of his brother's home and would hear Mike's widow, Elaine, calling from inside. " 'Mike, is that you?' she would say. 'Are you here?' Because I sound like him and I have the same gestures as him," Lyons explained. "For a while I'd try to talk lower or change my voice. But she'd still think it was him. " Lyons is sitting in a diner just blocks from ground zero, where nearly 10 years ago, his brother, a firefighter from an elite unit in the South Bronx, ran into a burning tower and never came out. The aftermath was a nightmare for Lyons, his wife and their young daughters.