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...Fecky lowers his voice. Standing a few yards away, watching eagerly as one of his workers squeezes a cloth holding the precious mercury and gold mixture, is Freddy Sigarlaki, the owner of the processing unit. Eyes glistening, Sigarlaki explains how he spent about $3,000?several decades' income for most of the farmers in the area?sinking a shaft on a nearby piece of land he owns. The soil yielded hardly any gold. Undeterred, Sigarlaki boasts he has now hired an excavator from Manado at $20 an hour to dig farther and deeper and faster. "No, no, there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grief From Glitter | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

...good 5 cm taller than he was. Police have leaked details of his having tied some of the women down, penetrating them with foreign objects and sodomizing many of them. He would assault most victims for 12 hours or more. To insure they remained unconscious, he would place a cloth soaked in a drug, known to be chloroform in at least one case, over their mouths. He captured his assaults on tape using professional video equipment and lights. One of his victims sustained burns when he left a hot light too close to her body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lucie Blackman: Death of a Hostess | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

...students then broke up into smaller groups to analyze the fingerprints, footprints, ransom note and other clues. ExperiMentors volunteers led chromotography demonstrations to pinpoint what type of ink was used to write the ransom note and looked at hair and cloth from the crime scene under microscopes...

Author: By Rachel E. Dry, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Youth Science Enrichment Program Visits Campus | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

Joseph Ablow can be described as such an artist. A Boston native and Professor of Fine Arts at Boston University for 20 years, Ablow has, for much of his career, devoted himself to the still life, finding in simple objects—the bowl, the cloth, the tableboth—the abstract and the specific. Ablow’s show of “Recent Paintings” at the Pucker Gallery in Boston is a testament both to his innovation and his artistic stamina...

Author: By Maria-helene V. Wagenberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Meditations on Space: Joseph Ablow | 4/27/2001 | See Source »

...team of police officers dragged the 300-kg sarcophagus outside and wedged it into their Toyota Hiace van. When they opened it less than an hour later in the Quetta police station, they found the mummified body wrapped in brown cotton cloth and stretched out on a woven mat coated with a mixture of wax, resin and honey. The mummy's gold crown and breastplate were engraved with the cuneiform writing used in ancient Mesopotamia and an image of Ahura-Mazda, the god of Zoroastrianism associated with ancient Persia. Encased in a heavy wood coffin, it was placed in what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mummy Not So Dearest | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

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