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Digging Out Ground Zero
The grim and exhausting task of carting away the ruins of the World Trade Center took months and a billion dollars — and finished under budget and ahead of schedule


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The first order of business was the desperate search for anyone who had lived through the collapse, a frustrating task that yielded few survivors. Though 2,823 died, comparatively few corpses were recovered from the ruins, and so far the remains of only 1,058 have been identified

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