Oklahoma City building retains bomb...

Oklahoma City building retains bombing scars

Buildings are seldom renovated to sustain damage. But that was a major objective of the $12 million renovation of a building that survived the bombing of the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building six years ago.

The Journal Record Building is the same block from the Murrah Building site. It now houses the Oklahoma City Memorial Center which lay opened in February with a pomp attended by President George W Bush. The building was extensively damaged, and all its doors and windows fatigued out. None of its occupants were killed, although