NEW YORK -- A panel of architects and planners will help the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. sift through hundreds of design proposals for the World Trade Center site, the agency announced Tuesday. Alexander Garvin, vice president of planning, design and development for the corporation, said more than 300 firms from every continent except Antarctica have sent in proposals. The panel that will winnow them down includes Toshiko Mori, chairman of the architecture department at the Harvard Design School; Richard Swett, an architect and former New Hampshire congressman; and Terence Riley, chief curator of the department of architecture and design at New York's Museum of Modern Art. The development corporation said last month that it would choose up to five design teams to prepare plans for the trade center site. The teams will be selected by Sept. 30. On the Net: https://www.renewnyc.org Copyright (c) 2002, The Associated Press