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Three tons of gold bars, nuggets, bullion and rare coins from the California goldfields were lost in 1857, when the steamship Central America sank in a hurricane off the Carolinas. Now this lost treasure, confirmed 18 months ago and worth up to $1 billion today, is in the eye of another hurricane, this time in a Norfolk, Va., courtroom...
Sparks is familiar with life in the townships and cities, but the ethos of contemporary South Africa is conveyed with even greater intensity in Richard Stengel's January Sun. Stengel, a TIME contributor, has the eye of a Leica and the sensitivity of a light meter. He focuses on a single day in the Transvaal town of Brits, where three men spend their separate, unequal lives. Ronald de la Rey, a white veterinarian, parrots the Boer tradition: "I think the idea of apartheid makes you more aware of the differences between people than the similarities. It's in our subconscious...
They are sprinkled through TIME every week: clever, colorful charts and diagrams that grab the eye, tantalize the brain and make one want to read the story. This week's issue is no exception. To illuminate the cover stories on particle physics, artist Joe Lertola created a series of arresting graphics that make even so intricate a subject attractive to the reader...
...switch from being essentially transparent to being totally opaque -- like an efficient electronic shutter. Controlled by an infrared signal broadcast from the projection booth, the goggles' left and right lenses open and close 24 times a second, in synchronization with a pair of Imax projectors showing first the left-eye view and then the right-eye view of any scene. The 3-D effect is unusually crisp because the projectors are extremely stable, the separation of right- and left-eye views is precise, and the movie frames are ten times as large as those of a typical 35-mm film...
...They have a very polished presentation to make," said Council Chair Guhan Subramanian '91-92. "It should be fairly informational and fairly eye-opening. There are a lot of features in the student center that students don't know about...