This artist's rendering shows the revised design for the World Trade Center memorial, "Reflecting Absence," to be unveiled at a press conference in New York on January 14, 2004. The design incorporates acres of trees and access to the bedrock demanded by victims' families along with the original plan for two sunken pools marking the footprints of the destroyed towers.
This rendering shows an over head view of the revised design for the World Trade Center memorial "Reflecting Absence" that was unveiled at a news conference in New York January 14, 2004. The design incorporates acres of trees and access to the bedrock demanded by victims' families along with the original plan for two sunken pools marking the footprints of the destroyed towers.
This rendering shows the bedrock level in the revised design for the World Trade Center memorial "Reflecting Absence".
Architect Michael Arad (C) talks to landscape architect Peter Walker (R) and architect Danial Libeskind at a news conference where the refined design for a memorial at the World Trade Ceter site was released, January 14, 2003 in New York City. Arad is the architect of the memorial at the World Trade Center site called, "Reflecting Absence," while Walker is the landscape architect and Libeskind is the architect for the new buildings on the site.
Space Shuttle astronauts listen as U.S. President George W. Bush announces his proposals for a space program during a speech at NASA headquarters in Washington, January 14, 2004. At front is Barbara Morgan, the backup candidate for the Teacher in Space Program aboard the doomed shuttle Challenger in 1985. Morgan is now assigned to a Space Shuttle team which is scheduled to launch sometime this year. Bush's plan would call for replacing aging U.S. space shuttles with a new generation of spacecraft to get people back to the moon and on to Mars. Democratic critics say the initiative is too costly.
U.S. Navy corpsman Phil Alexanian (L) looks through a target location system while Marine Lcp. James Wilson waits his turn to try the device, during the Marine West 2004 Military Exposition at Marine Corps Camp Pendleton in Oceanside, California, January 14, 2004. More than 70 defense contractors participated in the expo where they showed off the latest in equipment and technology that is geared towards the military.
Pedestrians walk past J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. headquarters in New York, late January 14, 2004. J.P. Morgan Chase and Co. agreed earlier in the day to buy Chicago based Bank One Corp. for about $58 billion in stock in one of the largest financial mergers in U.S. history.
Lights on passing vehicles create streaks in a window of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. headquarters, late January 14, 2004 in New York.
The sun sets over an Iowa farm near the town of Alexander, with a jet leaving a contrail above, January 14, 2004. The Iowa caucuses are less than a week away.
Chinese policemen march past an Iran Air 747SP passenger plane after it made an emergency landing in Beijing shortly after takeoff because of engine problems January 15, 2004. No one was injured, Chinese aviation officials said.
Chinese rescuers surround an Iran Air passenger plane. No one was injured, China's aviation officials said.
French tourist Andres Souvestre 75, is greeted by a samba dancer after passing through immigration at Rio de Janeiro's Galeao airport, on January 14, 2004. A group of samba dancers were sent to the airport by the city government to greet U.S. tourists, who under a federal court ruling have to fingerprinted and photographed on arrival in a -for-tat response to new U.S. immigration rules. The Rio government opposes the move, saying it harms tourism.
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U.S. tourist Jeff Blustin, 52, is greeted by a samba dancer.
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Chicago Fire Department personnel search through the rubble at the Unique Thrift Store, which partially collapsed when a worker operating a backhoe (foreground) knocked down an adjacent wall, in Chicago January 14, 2004. Chicago Fire Department officials say that nobody has been reported missing in the incident.
Jan 15: A picture taken after the Spirit rover descended onto the surface of Mars, looking back at the lander.
Jan 15: The first picture taken after the Spirit rover descended onto the surface of Mars. Jan 15: The first picture taken after the Spirit rover descended onto the surface of Mars.
Pigeons land on the top of the Garrard County Courthouse in Lancaster, Ky., as the Sun shows through ragged clouds on Jan. 13.
Dresden exhibit in Mississippi
Restorer Hans Martin Walcha prepares Johann Joachim Kaendler's "Heron" for shipping in an atelier of the castle in Dresden, Germany, on Jan. 14. The figure, made by Meisen porcelain in 1731, is one of more than 400 magnificent works from the Dresden`s State Art Collections, which will be presented in the exhibition "The Glory of Baroque Dresden" in Jackson, Miss., beginning March, 1. German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder will inaugurate the first major exhibition from Dresden in the United States since the reunification of East and West Germany.
Two small bronze sculptures, "Jealousy," left, and "The Kiss," which were stolen from the museum in the city of Volgograd in 2000, are on display in Moscow on Jan. 14. The Federal Security Service, the KGB's main successor, returned the two works by French sculptor Auguste Rodin to the culture ministry. The FSB said the suspected thieves were residents of Volgograd who were planning to sell the sculptures abroad. Rodin's works were given as a gift to the museum by a British collector shortly after World War II.
Blackwell's worst dressed
Paris Hilton, pictured at the Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas in December 2003, was No. 1 on Mr. Blackwell's worst dressed list for 2003. His comments: "From cyber disgrace to red carpet chills --she's the vapid Venus of Beverly Hills."
World-class look for North Side shelter
Architect Helmut Jahn, best known for his modernistic megaprojects, has designed a glass and metal building to house Chicago's homeless and low-income residents displaced by the demolition of Cabrini-Green.
Have snowman, will travel
A snowman sits in the back of a pickup truck Tuesday in the Wheaton Warrenville South High School lot. Snow is likely to return to the region Wednesday, the National Weather Service said.
A Hindu woman worships the god of the sun Surya at Sagar island, 150 km (95 miles) south of Calcutta January 14, 2004. Some 300,000 Hindu monks and pilgrims are expected to make a trip to Sagar island for the festival of Makar Sankranti where they will immerse themselves into the confluence of the Ganges river and the Bay of Bengal.
