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9 human bones found in ongoing search of WTC site

Written by DeadGirl
Wednesday, 03 January 2007
January 3, 2007 NEW YORK (AP) _ Nine more human bones - including some several inches long - were found Wednesday in the city's ongoing search for remains of Sept. 11 victims that were missed in the initial cleanup after the 2001 terrorist attack. Forensic anthropologists found five of the bones while sifting through debris from the World Trade Center site at a Brooklyn facility, while workers found four while digging up a service road on the western edge of the site, city medical examiner's office spokeswoman Ellen Borakove said. The bones ranged from an inch to more than 4 inches long; it wasn't clear what parts of the body they came from. More than 225 body parts have been unearthed since October from below the street-level service road at ground zero, prompting the city to launch a $30 million yearlong search for additional remains of Sept. 11 victims. Most of the bones were found in a manhole that utility workers came across during a routine excavation, but in recent days more than a dozen were located in landfill underneath the road. The city decided last week to dig up three-quarters of the road to search for all possible remains and conduct partial searches of the rest of it. The more extensive work hasn't slowed construction of a 1,776-foot skyscraper, Sept. 11 memorial and $2.2 billion transit hub under way at the site but has occasionally closed lanes and rerouted some trucks taking equipment into ground zero. http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--attacks-remains0103jan03,0,5771913.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork

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Taphophilia?

taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries