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Some tribes have handled their windfalls with surpassing prudence. The 185 Shakopee Sioux around Prior Lake, Minn., opened a 1,300-seat place just over a year ago. Already the bingo profits, $2.5 million, have paid for new medical clinics, a day care program and an 85-foot-high tepee-cum-cultural center. The Seminoles have endowed tribal scholarships, set up a credit union and amassed a large cattle herd. There is some populist pressure for cash distribution. The Baronas early this month gave members of the tribe $1,000 apiece from bingo earnings; the money might have been better...
Most of all, Mao is gone. It is as if the city had been sponged of him and his "personality cult." The giant 40-foot-high portrait still hangs above the vermilion Tiananmen. But he now rests silent under a scarlet coverlet in the colonnaded mausoleum that dominates the great square...
...Mamluk soldiers used its face as a rifle target. But the saddest indignity suffered over the centuries by Egypt's Great Sphinx of Giza has stemmed from erosion, seemingly caused by a single enemy-the relentless desert wind. At the present rate of decay, experts say, the 64-foot-high figure could be reduced to a mound of dust in five to ten centuries...
...Square residents gazed longingly at the bright new high-tech station in East Cambridge. But before city officials could call in the wrecking crews, a neighbor-hood artist named Eltary Eddy proposed an alternative. Under the auspices of the Cambridge Arts Council, Eddy designed a 30-foot-high grouptrait of Company No. Five, a rural that would reinforce community spirit and justify saving the 80-year-old building...
Ironically, the design of the Kennedy Library pavillion was the evening's undoing, as virtually every word spoken over the banquet's loudspeaker system was lost in overlapping echoes in the 150-foot-high room...