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Approximately 80 volunteers helped to erect the eight-foot-high structure, which will house about 150 guests during the Sukkot festival...
...lawn of the museum that they bought it for $1,400. "You can't find such a monumental sculpture for that price," Woodward said. Now, however, the couple must assemble the 10-ft.-high, fan-shaped contraption and worry about what the neighbors will think when they erect it on their own lawn. "At least it is not obscene," said Woodward. Merely a white elephant with a new life...
...problem is in striking a balance. In the early 1800s Jackson Hole was merely a valley where fur traders put up their tents; in the past few years it has become a vanity address for stock traders and business tycoons to erect their second and third getaway homes. Since 1986 local housing prices in Jackson have risen 15% a year, while local wages increased only 5% annually--a trend that could force out the wealth-impaired. So town and county leaders enacted a development plan barring oversize "trophy" homes with more than 8,000 sq. ft. of livable space...
Wilson's new patient, "Mrs. P.G.," as he later called her, said she was 52 years old, but her body told another story. "Her breasts were supple and firm, her carriage erect; she had good general muscle tone, no dryness of the mucous membranes and no visible genital atrophy. Above all," Wilson noted, "her skin was smooth and pliant as a girl's." When asked about menopause, she laughed and replied, "I assure you, Dr. Wilson, I have never yet missed a period. I'm so regular, astronomers could use me for timing the moon...
...fact, grandiosity was part of the job description for pharaohs. One of their primary duties was to make sure the gods were properly thanked for their continuing bounty and protection (and begged for them when they were in short supply). The accepted way to do that was to erect plenty of heroic structures-and then to adorn them with detailed records of the pharaoh's good and dutiful works. Says Kenneth Kitchen, professor of Egyptology at the University of Liverpool and the author of an authoritative book on Ramesses II: "He was determined to do this better than anyone else...