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Article: Archaeologists find clues in remains of a disaster.
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- September 17, 2003
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Byline: Zachary R. Mider
PROVIDENCE, R.I. _ On Oct. 6, 2001, Dr. Richard A. Gould found himself amid the herd of mourners, tourists and gawkers shuffling past the smoldering ruins of the World Trade Center.
The crowd's focus was on the mountain of rubble and twisted steel, but Gould's eyes fell toward objects on the ground, scattered in a blanket of dust, lying in the alleys, on Dumpsters and fire escapes.
What he saw changed the course of his life. Over the following months, he would return again and again to New York, bearing urgent messages to the city officials directing the recovery effort in Lower Manhattan. He and his colleagues would ...