With the Oscars scheduled for next weekend, Hollywood and the worldwide motion picture industry have been busy promoting their favorite films, their preferred musical scores, their star actors and actresses and their most compelling scripts.

In the same fashion, many of those who followed the recent visit...

The backslapping over the bitterly contested passage of the Zadroga bill in the waning hours of the 111th Congress has quieted down. As the hard work of implementing the important $4.3 billion bill gets underway there has come the kind of news that forces us to...

Now that most of the people who are suing the city of New York over the ground zero cleanup have voted to accept a $700 million plus settlement, it's time to take stock of what that signifies and what is likely to come next. The answer may be less than...

Visitors to the Office of New York City's Chief Medical Examiner are greeted by a long string of Latin words mounted on the lobby wall. Translated, the words mean "Let laughter and conversation cease. This is the place where the dead come to nourish the living."

James Zadroga's name will not be inscribed on the mournful memorial wall that is being erected at ground zero. But it is among the names of 9/11 heroes engraved on a plaque at police department headquarters in Lower Manhattan. And it is the name atop a massive...

In the nine years since 9/11, more than 238 scientific studies and medical reports in peer review journals have tried to measure the impact of the dust, smoke and ash of the collapsed twin towers on the health of the thousands who were exposed to the contaminated clouds. Cumulatively,...

In the nine years since 9/11, more than 238 scientific studies and medical reports in peer review journals have tried to measure the impact of the dust, smoke and ash of the collapsed World Trade Center on the health of the thousands who were exposed to the contaminated clouds. Cumulatively,...

I had scheduled an interview in Lower Manhattan this week, and to get there I took the Number 2 subway three stops from Penn Station to Park Place and then walked. Although it touches Broadway, this Park Place hardly resembles the storied spot that we know from that most...

From the very first moments after the twin towers of the World Trade Center crumbled on 9/11, it has been difficult to see through the dust left by the collapse. The resulting haze -- an unprecedented mixture of pulverized concrete, glass, steel and the minute particles of daily life...

Before they were flown from Havana to Madrid last week, seven Cuban prisoners of conscience were taken from their stinking cells to a hospital where for three days they were screened, bathed and fed. Then, before they boarded the jet that would fly them to Spain, they...

The Gulf Coast's endangered wetlands are a long way from the concrete towers of Lower Manhattan, but a wood paneled federal courtroom here on Pearl Street can provide invaluable lessons for handling the BP disaster that could save endless amounts of time, money and anguish.

In that courtroom, Judge Alvin...