Wisconsin is currently ground-zero for these intrastate stand-offs.
Freed believes that the lingering cloud of dust -- caused by the towers' collapse and the digging out of ground zero -- caused some of her long- and short-term medical problems, such as her "WTC cough" and other respiratory issues.
"It's a war that I feel we just won, " said one former New York firefighter -- who says he was forced to retire due to lung ailments suffered from dust at ground zero -- the site where the World Trade Center's twin towers once stood.
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Food is ground zero-the place where the economy meets the soil, where profitability meets fertility.
The Discovery Channel will feature the Steven Spielberg-produced documentary "Rising: Rebuilding Ground Zero, " and the Spanish network Telemundo will broadcast a five-hour show from that location.
As you're probably well aware, CES is ground zero for free stuff -- most of which is crappy swag.
Mr Bush gave his speech in the Texas House of Representatives, ground zero for bipartisan co-operation in his state.
Ten years on, the long-term shape of Ground Zero is coming into focus.
You have to understand, after spending 12-15 hours at ground zero, the air in this area is very heavy, it's almost suffocating.
For years they were caught up in disputes over whether the air at ground zero was really toxic -- the Environmental Protection Agency long claimed it was safe -- and whether the illnesses could be linked to the attack site.
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For months afterward he was at Ground Zero several times a day--every day--guiding and overseeing the heroic rescue and cleanup efforts.
Wearing hard-hat, paper mask, and gloves I walked around Ground Zero with ministry students giving bottles of water, Red Bull, and chewing gum to first-responders working the pile.
The piece was found in an 18-inch gap between two buildings near ground zero.
On Memorial Day weekend, three Marines from the 24th Expeditionary Unit who had been wounded in Iraq were joined by 300 other service members for a wreath-laying ceremony at the empty pit of Ground Zero.
As a demolition supervisor at ground zero, Feal was severely injured when an 8, 000-pound steel beam crushed his foot.
Today, on the way to the Wired Business Conference to interview Susan Wojcicki of Google, I walked by Ground Zero, the latest of many dozens of times since 9-11.
He said the process of assembling the evidence showing that his clients were actually at ground zero, or were exposed to toxins, has been challenging and time-consuming.
Shijo Bridge, in front of you, might be the ground zero of Kyoto old and new: a monk is standing, stock-still, collecting coins, and the mountains to the north are blue in the dusk.
After September 11, when those of us who worked in that lower-Manhattan neighborhood returned to our offices, one unforgettable memory was the pit called Ground Zero.
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