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Ten years after the 9/11 attacks, New York’s World Trade Center rises from ground zero

NEW YORK (AP).- Ten years after the 9/11 attacks destroyed the World Trade Center, an 80-story glass and steel tower is rising like a phoenix from the ashes of ground zero. The site called a “hole in the ground” for years has cranes in the air, trains running underground and hundreds of trees planted around giant, man-made waterfalls to remember the dead of Sept. 11. And the surrounding neighborhood — no longer just a financial district — is bursting with young families, new schools, a Whole Foods and a Barnes & Noble. Tourists squint and point their cellphones at 1 World Trade Center, once known as the Freedom Tower. “I’m kind of proud because I was here two weeks after 9/11 and this was a dust pit,” said Larry Brancato, 59, of Wallingford, Conn, walking by ground zero. “It just shows that Ameri-