Architecturally, the reason that the Pirelli is still one of the highest CONCRETE buildings in the world is that you can't build higher in massive concrete COS IT'S HEAVY! Local US politics is nothing at all. I still think that the hole looks big because most news photos crop in on the target - therefore it could be any skyscraper, there is no sense of scale. It's a smaller building than even one WTC tower, and the plane was smaller. So, if you don't see the context, you'll be fooled. Most floors of the building reopened yesterday.
PS: Psychologists, like my woman, generally agree that the relatives of suicides find it extremely hard to accept the fact of suicide. The suicide of a relative leaves a sense of guilt behind, whether it is justified or not. The reason is that we cannot accept that we will die - any other disease or accident or murder allows us to avoid this conflict.
Last edited by steamchicken; 24th Apr 2002 at 19:56.