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Trump has been telling anyone who would listen that his tower is much more than a building; it "has become the biggest attraction in New York City." He wants Gorbachev to see the "whole concept of Trump Tower," which features standard Trump touches like imported breccia perniche marble, a cascading waterfall, bronze plaques with the letter T emblazoned on every surface where the name Trump is not, and celebrity residents paying some of the highest prices in Manhattan. After walking through the atrium lobby, decorated with an oversize poster of Trump's book, Gorbachev is scheduled to get a tour...
...periodically-all forming new rock. For the last three billion years (the age of the youngest lunar rock) the only apparent changes on the moon have been caused by meteorites. Constant impacting by meteorites has broken up the rock to form dust, compacted the dust to form rocks called breccia, and melted the rock sand dust to form glasses...
...till three days before, stricken by cardiac asthma and kidney disturbances. A sturdy patient, he had told his physician that "the Pope must not stay in bed. The Pope must be Pope." Mindful of Leo XIII, who lay 20 days a-dying, he had said: "I will die sulla breccia"-in the breach...
When Howard Carter arrives in Alexandria he will find Professor Evaristo Breccia, director of the Graeco-Roman Museum of Alexandria, already probing in the dust beneath the Mosque of the Prophet Daniel, searching for Alexander's body. For 25 years Professor Breccia Pleaded with Moslem authorities for the privilege of digging, only last week received permission...
...feat of modern archeology, would make the discovery of Tutankhamun appear as a child's beach digging. If the body of Alexander is found beneath the Mosque it will not go to any foreign museum but will remain where it has been for tens of centuries. Thus reads Professor Breccia's contract...
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