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TV REVIEW : 'WHEN THE TOWERS FELL' : A Detective-Story Approach to the Twin Towers' Collapse (JULIE SALAMON, April 30, 2002, NY Times)

The image seems familiar: investigators poking around a junkyard looking for clues to a crime. A horrendous crime has in fact been committed, but these men are engineers, not detectives. By examining steel beams taken from rubble, they are trying to figure out if the way the World Trade Center was built made the tragedy there worse than it might have been. The engineering post-mortem feels urgent as plans for the reconstruction of the area are being developed. Tonight on "Why the Towers Fell," PBS's "Nova" series gives a lucid and compelling account of the investigation conducted by the American Society of Civil Engineers, whose report is scheduled for release today by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Posted by Orrin Judd at April 30, 2002 10:36 AM