Word: graveyard
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...murdered on Sept. 11, 2001; on that dark day's anniversary, people held up flags, just because it seemed the right thing to do. But 2002 was also marked by the triumph of determination over adversity. In a ruined city, a small girl played with giant balloons; in a graveyard, a boy fashioned a swing from the branch of a tree. A Pennsylvania miner emerged from the dank earth, rescued in a near miracle after being trapped by an underground flood. In a personification of guts and glory, a football player thundered in the snow of January. And lost...
...that fierce storms still churning in the Atlantic will push the spill's other oil slicks toward the shore. "They call this the Death Coast. It couldn't be more appropriately named," says Juan Antonio Toja, head of the fishermen's cooperative in the village of Laxe. Long a graveyard for ships, the area has now seen three major oil disasters since 1976. Toja's depressed mood matched that of his neighbors, among them the owners of three small boats who had gone out to fish beyond the exclusion zone. There, in the dark, the men were terrified to find...
Granted, the Las Vegas Convention Center doesn't look like a graveyard--or sound like it. With 800 exhibitors showing the latest in game and music machines (and attendees encouraged to bring the kids as new-product testers), it's loud. At Sega, guys in suits sit at a huge bank of monitors playing Quake Arena. Over at Global VR, conventioneers wearing huge, teardrop-shaped, bright yellow virtual-reality helmets blast away at enemy soldiers in the immersive war game Beach Head 2002. At Triotech Amusement, Tom Revolinsky, vice president of operations for Cleveland Coin Machine Exchange, a national arcade...
...whole villages representing 800 years of Jewish life. The museum will be constructed on the site of the infamous Warsaw ghetto. Discussions are under way with American architect Frank Gehry, the son of Polish Jews. "We want Poland to be seen as more than the world's largest Jewish graveyard," says project director Jerzy Halbersztadt. These efforts have one thing in common: their focus is not on how Jews died at the hands of Hitler and his sympathizers, a story that has been searingly told elsewhere, but instead on how they lived. "This is not a Holocaust project," says...
Have archaeologists discovered the skeleton of John the Baptist? Don't send for your color slides yet, but it's possible. Last year scholars combing a graveyard at the Qumran site in the West Bank, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, turned up an elaborate burial mound and some bones, which they theorized belonged to the Teacher of Righteousness--the leader of the Essene sect thought to have assembled the scrolls. The Teacher has long been felt by some scholars to be John the Baptist, since John's Messianic Judaism and stress on immersion were strikingly similar to Essene...