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...SEVEN WONDERS 45 million Number of people who have voted in an Internet campaign to choose seven "new" wonders of the world out of 21 historic buildings and monuments 2,200 Estimated years since intellectuals in the Mediterranean and Middle East named the ancient seven wonders. Only one, Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza, survives...
...wonder then that the exhibition's organizers aim, with the support of unesco (and, one presumes, violence permitting), to repatriate these treasures by 2016 to a museum they hope to build atop the ruins of the ancient Gazan port of Anthedon. Curator Marc-André Haldimann sees the project laying a foundation for a future of tolerance. "It reminds us that Gaza is not the deadlocked prison that it is today," he says, "but, as it was-the window of the world...
...Approximate number of years since intellectuals in the Mediterranean and the Middle East selected the ancient seven wonders. Today, only one, Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza, survives...
...with lead that brought him to his triumphs in steel. The MOMA show will merely certify the stature he earned years ago. At the dawn of the 21st century, an era of cyberspace, reproduction and the Internet, no one is doing more to make work that stands for the ancient and mysterious power of the real...
...matter the outcome of his case, the younger Beedie has turned away from the the sea once and for all. When his last daughter was born, he celebrated. Three girls, no fishermen. Asked whether he, heir to generations of fishers, is concerned that his case could unravel an ancient code, Beedie pauses. "It's already gone," he says. "There's so little left to save...