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"'Top Of The World'"
Added February 18, 2007
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Added February 18, 2007
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"In Memory of September 11"_ Although the majority of space in the WTC complex was off-limits to the general public, 1 WTC (North Tower) had a restaurant on the 107th floor called Windows on the World, and 2 WTC (South Tower) featured a public observation area aptly named "Top Of The World."
When visiting the observation deck, visitors would first pass through security checks added after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Next, visitors were whisked to the 107th floor indoor observatory and greeted with a 360 degree view of the New York City skyline, and exhibitions including a three-dimensional scale model of Manhattan, and a simulated helicopter ride around the city. Weather-permitting, visitors could take two short escalator rides up from the 107th floor and visit what was the world's highest outdoor viewing platform. At a height of 1,377 feet (420 m), visitors were able to take in a view of the North Tower and New York City unlike any other. On a clear day, it was claimed that visitors could see up to 45 miles (72 km) in any given direction. An anti-suicide fence was placed on the roof itself, with the viewing platform set back and elevated above it, requiring only an ordinary railing and leaving the view unobstructed.
Windows on the World was an elegant restaurant known as a place for big celebrations, such as weddings. In its last full year of operation, 2000, Windows on the World reported revenues of $37.5 million, making it the highest-grossing restaurant in the United States.
KNOXVILLE - It's the first of it's kind -- a mobile anti-terrorism unit for commercial use. It was developed and built right here in East Tennessee. A partnership between Oak Ridge National Lab and Knoxville technology firm, Cadre-5. The device can be used at sporting events and festivals -- where large groups of people gather. It's called the S.N.A.P.S unit, which stands for Sensor Network Area Protection System. It works using portable sensors and a camera that can be put on a pole, outside the trailer.
Police using the system would set up before an event or festival and monitor the environment, the air and any chemicals that might be in it. The system can detect any change in the air for 10 square miles, whether it's biological chemical, radiologial and explosive. A change will set off alarms inside the trailer. An officer watching screens inside the trailer will be able to assess the threat, view and record the area and figure out how to evacuate the crowd.
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http://www.wate.com/Global/story.asp?S=6144463
Terrorism inmates in Indiana
Monday, February 26, 2007
WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department has quietly opened a prison unit in Indiana that houses a hodgepodge of second-tier terrorism inmates, most of them Arab Muslims, whose ability to communicate with the outside world has been tightly restricted.
At the Communications Management Unit at the Federal Correctional Institution in Terre Haute, all telephone calls and mail are monitored, the number of phone calls is limited and visits are restricted to a total of four hours per month, according to special rules enforced by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons. All inmate conversations must be conducted in English unless otherwise negotiated.
The unit appears to be a less restrictive version of the super-maximum facility in Florence, Colo., which holds some of the United States' most notorious terrorists, including al-Qaida operative Zacarias Moussaoui and Unabomber Theodore Kacszynski.
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http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070226/NEWS02/702260408/1025