Word: mediterranean
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...Frankels, it seems that their adventure in homebuilding is paying off. On their plot now stands the frame for a majestic 8,000-sq.-ft. Mediterranean. Although they are pouring $1.5 million into construction, when the place is completed early next year, they estimate that it will be worth more than double that amount...
...children, says museum spokes-woman Hannah Boulton, "who dream of the large herds they will tend when they grow up." The objects in the main exhibition, which runs through Jan. 9, 2005, tell an important story about a place where for millennia the cultures of Central Africa and the Mediterranean have met and sometimes clashed. These items, mostly from recent excavations and on display outside Sudan for the first time, help to fill in the outlines of human history from the Paleolithic period to the end of Ottoman rule in Sudan in 1885. A 200,000-year-old pebble found...
...origins, rather implausibly, in leather tanning. During the 16th century, tanners made scented leather gloves?a hot item in an age when poor sanitation and haphazard refuse disposal meant that ambient smells were much stronger than they are today. The leather was perfumed with essences of wild Mediterranean flowers?and as time went on, extracting these essences became a specialized task. Grasse's perfume industry was born...
...international community of shot putters had arrived in Olympia last Sunday. They were housed amidst the ancient ruins of Olympia in the "Olympic Academy," making for their very own little Olympic Village. The Academy grounds, within walking distance of the ancient stadium, consist of a small complex of low Mediterranean-style buildings and athletic facilities, tucked away amidst a bucolic, woodsy hill setting dotted with olive and orange trees, eucalyptus and pine. Year round it draws historians, who come to research the ancient games, as well as young athletes who come for a sports camp. Wander the woods...
...deterrents in place are impressive. NATO will provide AWACS aircraft to monitor Greek airspace. The U.S. Sixth Fleet will patrol the Mediterranean while the Turkish and Italian navies cruise the Aegean and Ionian seas. A 70,000-strong force of Greek police and military--nearly twice the number of troops deployed in Kosovo in 1999--will patrol the country. Security personnel will outnumber athletes 7 to 1. Publicly, the international community has gone out of its way to praise the Greeks for their willingness to accept advice (from Israelis on suicide bombers, the Czechs on chemical weapons, the Russians...