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- Graeme MacQueen: It's kind of a shame and profoundly disappointing - not just on this issue, but on several issues - how universities manage to ignore deeply important questions. And after 40 years in the institution, you get to see what those are. And 9/11 is really one of the most dramatic cases i've ever seen.
- Narrator: Zdenek Bazant, a Professor of civil engineering at Northwestern University, within just hours of the attacks, worked out an entire 'explanation,' arguing that the towers were doomed to collapse and submitted it to the Journal of Engineering Mechanics on September 13, just two days after 9/11.
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- Robert Korol - McMaster University: So that's what our aim is: to ensure that the public is aware that this kind of investigation is needed. And we're prepared to do our part in this regard.