NEW YORK : As the ruins of New York's World Trade Center smoldered following the September 11 attacks of 2001, skeptics doubted it could ever rise again.Now, as the 19th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, the grand vision set forth after its destruction has largely been realized.
But the rebuilt World Trade Center complex is under threat anew - this time, from a microscopic virus."People are much more worried about someone coughing on them than someone blowing up a building," said Vishal Garg, chief executive of mortgage refinance startup Better.com, headquartered at 7 World Trade Center adjacent to the site known as Ground Zero.After the Twin Towers and surrounding buildings were destroyed by al Qaeda hijackers, killing 2,753 of the nearly.