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...guilty of it myself at times. It's the human condition taken to one very absurd extreme, like someone finding a dusty old VHS tape of a Steve Martin comedy from the '80s and deciding, "There's the answer, it's inside that. If I just penetrate this artifact, I'll finally get what I need...
Fiorentini has a deep respect for history and artifact, a quality he considers important for his work. Indeed, the somber Old Burying Ground, lodged in the bustling city—between two historic churches and an upscale pizzeria—is saturated with narratives of Cambridge’s past...
...always approach my work in the artistic way,” Fiorentini says. “I always keep my own vision. The object is not just an artifact. It has a value; it has a shape...
...about the mortgage-interest deduction is that policymakers never intended it to help promote homeownership - something that many people assume to be the case and use to help frame their thinking about the appropriateness of using the tax code to boost home-buying. Rather, the deduction is an artifact of the 1894 federal income-tax code, under which all interest was deductible, since pretty much all interest was a business expense. There weren't really loans to buy houses back then. In other words, a massive and costly cornerstone of American housing policy isn't even something we chose...
...Valley civilization poses an intractable problem, one that legions of archaeologists and scientists have puzzled over from the first excavations to a new study published last month. Its writing, etched in signs on tiny, intricate seals and tablets, remains undeciphered, shrouding the ancient culture in mystery. A code-busting artifact with bilingual text, like the Rosetta stone, has yet to be found. By some counts, more than 100 decipherments of the civilization's often anthropomorphic runes and signs - known in the field as the Harappan script - have been attempted over the decades, none with great success. Some archaeologists spied parallels...