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FILE -- Merce Cunningham, founder of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company who died in 2009, at his studio in New York, Dec. 12, 1997. Cunningham's dance...

Craig Taborn, the jazz piano soloist, performs at the Jazz Standard in New York, Jan. 13, 2011. Taborn, who has a new release, "Avenging Angel," is on...

FILE -- The Statue of Liberty, flanked by the twin towers of the World Trade Center, Dec. 5, 1983. (Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times) -- B/W ONLY...

A 2012 Chevrolet Sonic on an assebly line at the General Motors Orion Assembly Plant in Lake Orion, Mich., June 30, 2011. Despite the auto industry no...

Patients at a day facility run by the Young Adult Institute, run by brothers Joel and Philip Levy who earned close to $1 million a year each as the tw...

A portrait of Keith Franco in 2011. The World Trade Center site employs more than 3,200 workers. At present, it is the largest construction project...

Destroyed buildings near ground zero, Oct. 28, 2001 in New York. (Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times) -- FOR USE AS DESIRED WITH STORIES MARKING THE 1...

FILE -- Fliers in the Times Square subway station, posted in hopes of finding those missing at the World Trade Center, by late September had become me...

FILE --The observation deck of the World Trade Center's South Tower in New York, May 5, 1999. (Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times) -- FOR USE AS DESIRE...

FILE --The observation deck of the World Trade Center's South Tower in New York, May 5, 1999. (Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times) -- FOR USE AS DESIRE...

FILE -- Smoke rises from the site of the World Trade Center just after dawn, Sept. 12, 2001. The photo was taken from across the Hudson River in Hobok...

FILE -- Ground zero still smoldered on Oct. 25, 2001, almost two months after the twin towers of the World Trade Center were attacked and destroyed. (...

FILE -- Smoke rises from the site of the World Trade Center at dawn on Sept. 12, 2001. The photo was taken from across the Hudson River in Hoboken, N...

FILE -- Smoke rises from the site of the World Trade Center just before dawn on Sept. 12, 2001. The photo was taken from across the Hudson River in Ho...

FILE -- Workers cut down the last steel column from the rubble of the World Trade Center May 28, 2002. The beam, bearing signatures, tributes and phot...

FILE -- A detective with the New York City police in a hazmat suit at the Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island, New York, Oct. 21, 2001. Rubble from...

FILE -- These fathers, most of them firefighters, lost sons during the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9/11. They gathered for this portrait in...

FILE -- A view of the 7 World Trade Center site from the Verizon Building which is undergoing restoration after it was damaged in the collapse of the...

FILE -- Landfill from excavations for the World Trade Center, seen in the background, was transformed into a beach, then Battery Park City. Sunbathers...

FILE --The observation deck of the World Trade Center's South Tower in New York, May 5, 1999. (Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times) -- FOR USE AS DESIRE...

FILE -- The Brooklyn Bridge and the World Trade Center towers in the distance in an undated photo from the archives of the New York Times. (Fred R. Co...

FILE -- During a service at ground zero in Lower Manhattan on Oct. 28, 2001, firefighters accepted mementos from victims' families and placed them on...

Watches owned by Benjamin Clymer, who runs an online magazine for watch-enthusiasts called Hodinkee.com, in New York on June 29, 2011. With the abunda...

Benjamin Clymer, who runs an online magazine for watch-enthusiasts called Hodinkee.com, in New York on June 29, 2011. With the abundance of personal e...

Alexei Petrov, who faces charges of racketeering and threatening to murder a business partner, in Kyustendil, Bulgaria, June 29, 2011. If convicted, P...

Margaret Dessau, who witnessed the attack on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001 from her home that is six blocks away, on her balcony at home in...

A portrait of Larry Silverstein, president and CEO of Silverstein Properties, Inc. in June, 2011. The World Trade Center site employs more than 3,20...

Todd Parr, who writes and illustrates books with Jewish themes, at his home in Berkeley, Calif., June 23, 2011. Harold Grinspoon, a western Massachuse...

John Thiel, head of United States wealth management and the private banking and investment group at Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management, in New Yor...

John Thiel, head of United States wealth management and the private banking and investment group at Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management, in New Yor...

Todd Parr, who writes and illustrates books with Jewish themes, at his home in Berkeley, Calif., June 23, 2011. Harold Grinspoon, a western Massachuse...

President Barack Obama speaks at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, June 24, 2011. Obama announced a $500 million project to stimulate high-tec...

Jared Kushner, the New York Observer publisher and businessman, in the Puck Building, one of his family's high-profile holding, in New York, June 2, 2...

Rachael Kleinberger outside her apartment in Santa Monica, Calif., June 22, 2011. Kleinberger chose to leave a TV job for a nonprofit group that prom...

Valente Inziko, whose wife died during childbirth, walks with his daughter Convert Diana, 3, near the graves of his wife and child in the village of A...

Wileza Itun and her baby moments after it was delivered in the Arua Hosptial in Arua, Uganda, June 17, 2011. Annually, half of the 340,000 deaths of w...

Nurses and relatives tend to an expected mother at the maternity ward of Arua Hospital in Arua, Uganda, June 17, 2011. Annually, half of the 340,000 d...

FILE -- A New York taxi medallion on the hood of a yellow cab in in New York, June 25, 2011. Two New York taxi medallions, tin plates that grant the r...

Tyne Daly at the MTC Friedman Theatre in New York, June 12, 2011. Daly, who is known for her down-to-earth characters, is back on Broadway playing the...

Jenny Gersten, director of the Williamstown Theater Festival, on the campus of Williams College in Williamstown, Mass,. June 15, 2011. This season mar...

Nadia G on the set of her show "Bitchin' Kitchen," in New York, June 14, 2011. Nadia G brings punk-meets-Prada flair as the host of the Cooking Channe...

Nadia G in New York, June 14, 2011. Nadia G brings punk-meets-Prada flair as the host of the Cooking Channel's show "Bitchin' Kitchen," which began as...

Nadia G on the set of her show "Bitchin' Kitchen," in New York, June 14, 2011. Nadia G brings punk-meets-Prada flair as the host of the Cooking Channe...

Lee Ufan, an artist, at a quarry looking for rocks for his sculptures in Bridgehampton, N.Y., March 30, 2011. For "Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity," his ex...

Filmmaker John Waters at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, June 9, 2011. Waters, invited by the center to act as a museum curator and plumb its co...

Susan Saladoff, the director of the film "Hot Coffe," in San Rafael, Calif., June 15, 2011. "Hot Coffee," to be shown Monday on HBO, puts a human face...

Eddie Basinski at his home in Milwaukie, Ore., June 18, 2011. Basinski, nicknamed the Fiddler, is a trained violinist who played for the Brooklyn Dodg...

FILE -- Richard Fairbank, the chief of Capital One, at the company's headquarters in Mclean, Va., June 29, 2007. On Thursday, Capital One Financial an...

Chad Kultgen, the author of "The Average American Male" and "The Lie," at Soho House in West Hollywood, Calif., June 7, 2011. Kultgen's new novel, "Me...

Chad Kultgen, the author of "The Average American Male" and "The Lie," at Soho House in West Hollywood, Calif., June 7, 2011. Kultgen's new novel, "Me...