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Family matters and suburban survival techniques get regular attention. They are the cement that holds the classes together. Says Grossman: "There's a sense of shared community here about the fact that there's not enough time, the kids won't do the dishes, and father paces the floor when daughter is out on the first date. You need to hear that everybody else is going through...
Eventually the passengers, many still clad in pajamas, were taken to Spitsbergen, in Norway's polar Svalbard archipelago, and then flown back to West Germany. Emergency teams kept the Maxim Gorky from sinking by pumping water out of the vessel and plugging the gashes with cement brought out to them by a Russian freighter...
...course of his single-minded drive to build the endowment and cement a reputation for the school, the dean often paid too little heed to ethical concerns, critics...
...Sphinx. Its limestone, fragile to begin with, erodes rapidly when it comes in contact with water. "Even the ancient Egyptians knew this rock was not in good condition," notes Sayed Tawfik, chairman of the EAO. Repairs in the early 1980s used cement, which introduced water to the limestone and trapped existing water inside. More recently, workers have used dry limestone powder, similar in composition to the original rock, to strengthen the base of the Sphinx. One proposal from the Getty Institute's Monreal: place the entire statue under a protective canopy for several months at least, while exploring alternatives...
...some of the most voluptuous real estate in the U.S. Down tree-lined boulevards, the murmur of nannies cooing into baby carriages and gardeners snipping the gardenias is drowned out by earthmoving, sawing, hammering, and the cursing of drivers trying to park beside a line of lunch wagons, cement mixers and Porta Pottis. To date, hundreds of older homes in the area have been destroyed for the simple reason that the original "dungalows" were worth so much less than the land underneath them. Palatial homes whose scale is limited only by the owners' taste and imagination are rising in their...