Topic: Empire State Building

Remembering the audacity of the twin towers

The soaring twin towers of the World Trade Center became an affirmation of the American value of dreaming big. To the engineer who designed them, their loss on 9/11 remains heartbreaking, but he's found the resilience to keep dreaming.

Oven roasted wings

Korean hot pepper paste, rice vinegar, soy sauce, sesame oil, garlic and ginger make oven roasted Korean Style Chicken Wings a flavorful appetizer, main course, or snack.

Digging down to family roots

Internet's easy access has pumped new life into ancestor research.

Bronx Zoo cobra: her top 4 tweets

Bronx Zoo cobra run amok? The Bronx Zoo insists its missing Egyptian cobra is probably hiding on zoo property. But the Twitter account @BronxZoosCobra suggests that the Bronx Zoo cobra is involved in a little Big Apple high jinks. Here are the four funniest tweets.

Bronx Zoo cobra searchers stumped? Just follow her on Twitter.

Bronx Zoo cobra searchers say the snake, which went missing Friday, is likely still in the zoo. But a lampoon Twitter account begs to differ, tweeting the Big Apple adventures of the Bronx Zoo cobra.

747-8 Intercontinental ready for primetime

747-8 Intercontinental: Boeing's biggest plane ever is the 747-8 Intercontinental. The Chicago-based company debuted the 747-8 Intercontinental to unexpectedly slow sales.

Heart of the City

Nine New York love stories: Can a city be a matchmaker?

Gold prices: Let the wild rumpus begin!

As everyone begins drumming the buy-gold, buy-gold, buy-gold beat, is it time for gold's parabolic price explosion, shooting sharply up and falling just as quickly back down?

Six lessons from the BP oil spill

What the tragedy of the BP oil spill has taught us about regulations, technology, and how our energy diet must change.

Hurricane Alex pushes oil onto Gulf coast beaches

Hurricane Alex has made Gulf coast beaches particularly vulnerable. "With this weather, we lost all the progress we made," says scientist.

Earth Hour 2010 aims to get 1 billion to turn off the lights

For this year's Earth Hour, set for 8:30 p.m. Saturday, more businesses and governments are expected to take part in the campaign to turn off the lights. The aim: at least 1 billion participants.

Lights go out as Earth Hour hits: A threat to the NCAA basketball tournament?

More than 100 countries will turn out the lights on March 27 for Earth Hour, casting normally illuminated icons such as Sydney's Opera House and Beijing's Birds Nest into darkness. But expect the NCAA basketball tournament to stay on TV.

World's tallest building: What's it worth to have the Dubai tower – and what should people call it?

From the last-minute name change to the engineering feats involved in constructing the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa continues to generate a buzz.

Who are Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other accused terrorists?

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others are to stand trial in New York. Here's the evidence federal prosecutors will use against them.

Microsoft CEO Ballmer bullish on 'new economy'