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Built around 1,200 years ago, Borobudur (usually translated as "temple on the hill") is an architectural jewel that Historian Arnold Toynbee ranked as the equal of the Parthenon. Very little is known of the people who built and used it, or of the reasons it was permanently abandoned in 1006 after an earthquake and the eruption of the nearby Merapi volcano. Covered with some two miles of bas-reliefs that depict the life of Buddha and the sacred stories of Buddhism, Borobudur is a source of immense national pride to Indonesia, even though Islam is now the religion...
...Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Nightingale, the Chinese Emperor, although captivated by the sound of his songbird, replaces it with a jewel-encrusted replica. The parable may reflect the mid-life anxieties of Mick Jagger, 39, who plays the Emperor in this summer's broadcast of Showtime TV's Faerie Tale Theater. Anticipating the end of the Rolling Stones after two decades of great music, Jagger seems to be pointing toward a new life in film. Let's Spend the Night Together, Director Hal Ashby's portrait of the Stones...
...depressing one. Cash debts are staggering: the islands as a whole owe Western banks and governments more than $6.5 billion. In Jamaica (pop. 2.2 million) the $1.4 billion foreign debt is equal to 40% of the country's entire gross domestic product. In Grenada, the Marxist-inspired New Jewel Movement has run up a $17.1 million debt that equals 21 % of the country's annual production of goods and services. Despite largescale emigration from the islands, unemployment has reached rates of more than 30%, with the level approaching 50% among increasingly restive youths. Says Rex Nettleford, a Jamaican...
...past, introduction of a new-from-the-wheels-up model like the 760 would have meant a major financial commitment by Volvo. But following an ambitious diversification program that was begun six years ago, automobiles now account for only 35% of sales. The crown jewel was last year's acquisition of Beijerinvest, a large energy trading company, for $305 million. With the acquisition came 31 oil-drilling sites in the North Sea. In August, Volvo expanded its oil holdings by buying 50% of Hamilton Brothers Petroleum Corp., a private U.S. firm that also explores for offshore crude. Despite weakening...
Native of Michigan, Vietnam veteran, source of intense family pride, Maj. Brewster H. Shaw Jr. will climb aboard the jewel of America's space program sometime next September for a flight which may be the shuttle's first round-trip voyage--from Cape Canaveral, Fla. and back again. With Brewster finally having his day in orbit after five years in the space program, relatives and friends look to the shuttle with pride and excitement. The overall purpose of the ninth mission will to them to be irrelevant. However, this flight--along with the others, including this week's--will likely...