After the attack on the World Trade Center, a block from AmEx headquarters, the plan was scrapped.

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He dropped her off one block shy of the convention center.

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The bathtub was the 9-block area of the World Trade Center site at bedrock, that was protected by the slurry wall.

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Adam Block, program coordinator at the Mount Lemmon Sky Center at the University of Arizona, snapped his first Pan-STARRS picture March 10.

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He had just demonstrated how to control slides on an ice block the size of a basketball court in the center of the track.

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The public high school one block from my home has been turned into an evacuation center.

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It is located one block west of the new 104-storey One World Trade Center (also known as the Freedom Tower).

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He noted that the federal building sat on half a block, much smaller than the area covered by the World Trade Center.

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The good news is that there are people like Dr. Block (she is also the Co-director for the Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care) who are trying to educate us.

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While the center of Erfurt is still picturesque and remains a big draw for tourists, some big block buildings on the city's outskirts that used to be residential apartments now sit empty, many of them boarded up.

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