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To: D. Long who wrote (32614)	6/19/2002 7:38:38 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

As I mentioned earlier, I just read the first installment. Here is a quote from William Langewiesche, the writer. What will the general focus of the second and third installments of "American Ground" be? The organization of the piece is thematic rather than chronological. The second part, "The Rush to Recover," begins with the first really thorough, integrated look at what went on in the air before the airplanes hit. It's what I think of as the aerial ballet of that morning in which those airplanes were crossing each other's paths in the most amazing ways. Then it goes on to tell the story of the unlikely duo of Kenneth Holden and Michael Burton from the Department of Design and Construction. The rush to find the living, and then the dead, is also a big part of the story. There's a discussion of forensics?exactly how bodies are found and what happens to them, and what it was like dealing with them. Part three, "The Dance of the Dinosaurs," is about the mining operation. It talks about the physical problems of moving the steel; about the tugboat and barging operation; about the culture on the water; and about the Freshkills landfill operation (where the debris was sifted through and sifted through and sifted through to make sure that as few pieces of people got discarded as possible). It's also about the human aspects of the winding down. It includes the end of the cleanup?the feeling when the job was finally done after nine months, and it sticks with the same characters who have been in the series all along.