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...Aside from a vitrine comparing a Neolithic pre-Buddhist wood painting to a brightly-colored yet carefully-shaded Buddhist silk scroll, the exhibition quickly abandons its emphatic insistence on religion as an organizing principle and begins to strain under the weight of its own ambitious chronological framework. An intricate gold dragon stands prominently along the main path with scant explanation of its significance or social use, while a collection of vases and other cultural artifacts, to judge from the sparing wall labels, seemingly have nothing in common other than their status as decorative objects...
Freeport operates one of the world's largest strip mines, on the Indonesian island of Irian Jaya. Its site contains, according to conservative estimates, more than $70 billion in gold...
This is fiction, of course. It's the plot of my recently-published techno-thriller, "Albrick's Gold." But could it become fact? And if so, what should we be doing about...
...such a gold mine, why did the FCC give broadcasters, at least for now, free access to the digital spectrum...
...jokey new commercials for ESPN, BILL BRADLEY tries to convince some skeptical interviewers that he has the qualifications to work for the cable channel. But they simply shake their heads dubiously at his Rhodes Scholarship, Olympic gold medal, two N.B.A. championships, three books and 18 years as a U.S. Senator. Over at CBS, they're apparently not so picky. Bradley has been named a contributor for the news division. It's something of a backdoor move for the man whose first job in the 1960s was as a radio reporter for CBS in St. Louis, Missouri, and who sent back...