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...located the wreck two years ago began recovering what engineer Thomas Thompson, 37, said was "like the classic sunken treasures you read about as a kid. It is like a garden of gold growing from the bottom and hanging from beams. It is dripping with gold coins." One gold brick weighed more than 62 lbs. No one can guess how much more gold might have been brought aboard by the 425 passengers who died in the sinking; many were Californians fresh from the gold rush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Carolina: Sunken Garden Of Gold | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...rank of casinos nudged so close against the water that they seem to teeter at its edge, their windows shut to the ocean air, their backs turned to the city. Behind them cowers the neighborhood known as the Inlet, where boxy row houses devolve into strange confections of brick, plywood and cardboard, and people doze on sleeping bags in doorless rooms with broken windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atlantic City, New Jersey Boardwalk Of Broken Dreams | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...Harvard women's soccer team travelled to the Granite State yesterday to take on New Hampshire, but it was the Wildcats who ran into a brick wall--Crimson goaltender Beth Reilly...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: W. Booters Blank 'Cats, 1-0 | 9/20/1989 | See Source »

...headquarters, De Niro chose an 83-year-old red brick building situated in TriBeCa, a trendy downtown neighborhood where he lives. De Niro, who will have 50% ownership in the building, is supervising a renovation that will leave in place industrial details like the giant coffee scales in his office. But the building's advanced features will include a 70-seat screening room designed by director George Lucas' production company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If He Can Make It Here . . . | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

...efforts to improve ties between Roman Catholicism and Judaism have been disrupted by turmoil over the presence of 14 Carmelite nuns at the site of the infamous Auschwitz death camp in southern Poland. The nuns maintain a convent just outside the camp's barbed-wire perimeter, in a red brick building that once housed canisters of deadly Zyklon B gas. Their mission: to pray for all the Nazis' victims, including the 6 million Jews who died in concentration camps. But the establishment of a Christian institution at a place that will forever symbolize Jewish martyrdom has stirred outrage among Jews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Auschwitz Ire Stay-put nuns spark protests | 8/21/1989 | See Source »

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