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The gilding of the nation's temples is an aspect of one of mankind's great investment obsessions: the Indian love of gold. The country buys at least one-fifth of the global gold supply each year, making it the world's largest consumer of the metal. Experts believe that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gold Fever | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

In the first two days, 40 divers brought up more than 200 silver ingots, weighing 7 tons. Each bar was 15 in. long and tipped the scales at about 70 lbs. Divers also found the archetypal treasures of a shipwreck: wooden chests spilling over with coins. According to McHaley, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sunken Treasure: We Found It! We Found It! | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

The flourishing mills and the four Super Bowl titles of the 1970s are distant memories in western Pennsylvania. But an energetic blue-collar ethos still engulfs the Steelers. At 6 ft. 5 in. and 241 lbs., the quarterback, 22, is built like a linebacker, or millworker, and fits in with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man of Steel | 1/3/2005 | See Source »

Saddam's soldiers help the Americans load the ingots of gold (stored in the heart of a vast underground labyrinth of cuisinarts and television sets, the spoils of war, in Louis Vuitton bags) into their truck. What is the price of this uncalled for assistance? Merely that the Americans avert...

Author: By Nadia A. Berenstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gulf, Anyone? | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

The central linguistic motif of some of his political poems became of use to him, as he noted in his lectures, when he approached the translation of Beowulf. A motif of his political poems is the conflict between the rich vowel sounds of the Irish language and the consonant-heavy...

Author: By Ankur N. Ghosh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Seamus Heaney Visits Harvard; 'Talks Shop,' Offers Recent Poetry, Translation of 'Beowolf' | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

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