Word: marciana
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...finals over just six days, Decker finished second in the 1,500, her first loss in four years. Reasoning that "one gold is better than two silvers," she has elected a showdown with South African Sprite Zola Budd, though Decker claims to be more concerned about Rumanian Marciana Puica. In the Helsinki world championships last summer, Decker won both, running Soviet Zamira Zaitseva into the ground. Boycotters Zaitseva and Tatyana Kazankina would be missed more in Los Angeles if that picture were not so fresh and fabulous...
...Venice, according to Professor Pasquale Rotondi, head of Italy's national restoration center, the famed bronze horses on the façade of St. Mark's must be removed to an atmosphere-controlled room in the Marciana Library, "before the season of lagoon fogs" begins in late fall. Their bronze is now too corroded by pollution to remain outside. The same measures, Rotondi insists, are needed to preserve the so-called Doors of Paradise that Ghiberti made for Florence's Baptistery...
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