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"Philippe Petit, the French tightrope walker who, in 1974, crossed a wire miraculously rigged between the World Trade Center's twin towers, has long been a hero of mine. I came to fully understand the breadth of his accomplishment while working at the North Tower's restaurant Windows on the World, some twenty-five years later. There was not a day that I passed at Windows—recommending wine for diners as "sommelier," all research for a story about the experience— that I didn't stare out the floor-to-ceiling windows in amazement at what Petit had pulled off....." click below to