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...standing naked in a linen closet at the old Rockefeller farm outside New York City when I began to wonder if I had gone too far for a meal. John Rockefeller Sr. probably wouldn?t think so: in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, he had assembled some 4,000 acres in this part of New York State, some of the most verdant land in the Hudson River valley. It?s a lovely spot that brims with history - Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., is nearby - and as good as any place to be naked in a linen closet...
...opened to great fanfare last week, the skeptics turned out to be right. There was no mummy--and no Mummy--inside. Still, that doesn't put KV63 in the same category as Al Capone's infamously empty vault. The coffin was filled with ancient embalming materials, strips of linen and funerary garlands and collars made of dried flowers. That, says lead excavator Otto Schaden of the University of Memphis, means KV63 may have been a storage cache, as another tomb proved to be. That's important for history--but it would have been a lot more fun to find...
This time around, things are different, says Gordon. "Atlantic City wasn't ready," he says as he eats lunch at Evo, a white-linen restaurant at Trump Plaza that, Gordon observes, is a marked improvement over the joints he used to frequent in the mid-'90s. "Right now, Atlantic City is the same as Las Vegas was 15 years ago," he says. "This is as close as I've come to a sure thing. It's no gamble at all." Which is why he's betting the house...
Close your eyes and picture Family Dinner. June Cleaver is in an apron and pearls, Ward in a sweater and tie. The napkins are linen, the children are scrubbed, steam rises from the green-bean casserole, and even the dog listens intently to what is being said. This is where the tribe comes to transmit wisdom, embed expectations, confess, conspire, forgive, repair. The idealized version is as close to a regular worship service, with its litanies and lessons and blessings, as a family gets outside a sanctuary...
...history is not on Appleton's side. Since 1879, one company, the family-run papermaker Crane & Co., has produced virtually all U.S. currency paper, an intricate blend of cotton, linen and ever evolving security features, at two facilities in Dalton, Mass. "Ours is an intimate, long working relationship with the Treasury Department," says Lansing Crane, CEO and great-great-great-grandson of the company's founder. That relationship appears as secure as ever, despite challenges from competitors and lawmakers that have been mounting since 2001. Having one firm control the currency supply isn't just anticompetitive, it's a security...