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...intricate carvings and eventually the integrity of the structures. The antidote used so far has been to scrub the facades. Since 1986 the Archaeological Survey of India has spent the six-month dry season sprucing up Angkor Wat. A team of 15 Indian specialists supervises more than 300 unskilled Cambodian workers, who scrape the fragile sandstone carvings with brushes and chemicals...
Although the Polish government has signed an agreement with the Cambodian government to restore the temple, Warsaw is broke. The Poles have asked UNESCO for funds and have been turned down. The organization would like to see such bilateral efforts postponed until the overall environment can be stabilized. Even though there is a general understanding of the need for that approach, donor nations want a temple to restore and claim as their own. "Everyone wants to produce a before-and-after photograph," complains Engelhardt...
...recent film about the making of Apocalypse Now! traced Francis Ford Coppola's descent into madness as the movie and the Cambodian jungle where it was shot became the director's obsession...
Children learn how to hopscotch in Ethiopian, Italian and Chinese fashion, how to imitate animal sounds and how to say "I love you" in Spanish, Cambodian, Haitian Creole and Cantonese. All of this comes from the Kids Bridge "instructors," interactive television screens which connect the viewer with hyperactive videotaped peers...
...Josephson: "An Egyptian farmer will not report an archaeological find for fear his fields will be confiscated. So he either throws the object away or sells it to a cousin in Cairo." Though a peasant who finds an artifact makes a small fraction of its retail value -- one contraband Cambodian Buddha head on sale in Hong Kong recently carried a $37,000 price tag -- it is better than nothing...