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Yale is making the six students deposit $1000--a rough estimate of damage--toward paying for removing the paint. If the cost is higher, Yale will collect the rest from the offenders; if less, they will receive a refund. The students have also been told to go to Harvard this week and apologize to Dean Watson. The names of the students have not been disclosed...
...away as Texas, Kuwait and Brunei. Growling Land-Rovers raced up and down sandy stretches recently surrendered by vacationing Dutchmen; helicopters whirred overhead. The invaders represented some of the 24 oil companies that are gunning for a share of the world's second largest natural gas deposit (after Texas). The Dutch government conservatively estimates that 1,100 billion cubic meters of gas bubbles under the Waddenzee Islands and the northern provinces. Others reckon that the fields contain five times that amount...
...York's Governor Thomas Dewey called him "the new king of the rackets." And king or not, he made crime pay. His wealth, said Valachi, "would break the adding machine." His estranged wife said that Genovese was worth over $30 million, mostly stashed away in safe-deposit boxes...
...from the rock around them, they will be sawed into chunks weighing not more than 30 tons each. Some of the pieces will be split apart and the breaks joined later. Blocks that are weak will be held together by bolts. Cranes will lift them one by one and deposit them gently on beds of sand on top of the cliff, where they will be wrapped in plastic sheeting to protect their surfaces. When the lowest of the blocks arrive, they will be placed on a concrete foundation. The temple will be reassembled as accurately as possible and surrounded...
Despite the impressive skills of modern science, the way to discover profitable mineral deposits around the Mediterranean often seems to be to curl up with a good book. Perusing the Greek classics and pinpointing their references. Italian Entrepreneur Jean-Baptiste Serpieri in 1864 rediscovered the ancient mines of Laurium near Athens, from which the classical Athenians extracted their wealth and the lead needed to build their fleet. Geologist Charles Godfrey Gunther located copper on Cyprus by reading Latin manuscripts. The latest to cash in on the classics is a short, stocky Greek named Alexander Xenarios, who spent 30 years roaming...