Word: materiallize
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This century saw ivory become a raw material for industry. In the 1920s thousands of elephants were butchered to meet U.S. demands for 60,000 ivory billiard balls a year and for hundreds of thousands of piano keys. In the 1970s ivory was a hedge against inflation, stockpiled and traded...
Over the decade, traders outmaneuvered attempts to regulate the trade by taking their tusks through nations that had not yet signed the CITES accord. In 1985 CITES agreed to register previously undocumented tusks in countries that promised to comply with the rules in the future. Such arrangements were made with...
The Prince material is, well, batty. Several of his songs appear in the film, but Prince uses the album to retell the story and recast himself as the Dark Knight's alter ego. If that seems weird, no one seems bothered. The Batman sound track hit No. 1 on the...
The refugees' flight seemed not only a dramatic act of rejection by his own people but also a challenge to the legitimacy -- and perhaps the very existence -- of Honecker's country. Beneath the flags and banners, East Germans are increasingly questioning who and what they are -- and not liking the...
Earlier this year Byrne, the leader of Talking Heads, assembled a sampling of 1970s Brazilian pop on the Fly/Sire Records album Beleza Tropical: Brazil Classics Vol. I. This month a follow-up collection, O Samba: Brazil Classics Vol. 2, is due to appear, along with Rei Momo, Byrne's solo...