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...ancient Arabia, the most fabled land was the city of Ubar. As legend had it, one Shaddad ibn Ad created a jewel-encrusted oasis town in the southern deserts to stand as an "imitation of Paradise." Islam's holy Koran, which called the site Iram, evoked the grandeur of "lofty pillars, the like of which were not produced in ((all)) the land." This was also Islam's Sodom, however, a place that God destroyed because of its wickedness. Ever since, warns an Arabian saying, "anybody who finds Ubar will go crazy." And according to an Arabian Nights tale, "Allah blotted...
...Publishing, the financial jewel of HSA, is the core of the new subsidiary, which is wholly owned by the non-profit agency. Let's Go's staff of student writers and editors produce a best-selling series of budget travel guides...
...Irene may be the patron saint of peace, but last week her image provoked an unseemly squabble. Two days before Christmas, thieves stole a small jewel- encrusted painting of the saint from St. Irene Greek Orthodox Cathedral, which is located in Astoria, a predominantly Greek neighborhood in New York City. The icon, which congregationers say began to shed tears at the prospect of the Persian Gulf war, is valued by the church at $800,000. Church leaders went on television to plead for the icon's return. New York Mayor David Dinkins -- and the Mafia -- joined the appeal...
...scars may be just months old, but they cut deep enough to last a lifetime. In Dubrovnik, the architectural jewel of the Adriatic that has been under siege since Oct. 1, 50,000 civilians spent last week huddled in underground cellars and shelters while shells tore apart their matchless city. With potable water and food in ever diminishing supply, terrified Yugoslavs subsisted on powdered milk and the forlorn hope that the international community might finally come to their rescue...
...year the contents spontaneously liquefy and then return to a powdery state. The researchers, who demonstrated the same phenomenon with the chemical compound, speculate that a chemist may have concocted a hoax. The next day, in Padua, four masked thieves broke into the basilica and stole a gold-plated, jewel-encrusted reliquary. It contained the jaw and teeth of ST. ANTHONY...