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It is advisable when visiting the Morris Louis retrospective now on view at New York City's Museum of Modern Art to recall the claims made for this painter ten or 15 years ago. In such work, the art historian Michael Fried once wrote, "what is nakedly and explicitly at...
The current problem has been brought on not by celestial visitors but, as biologists agreed during the four-day meeting in Washington, by man. They attribute the developing ecological disaster to the systematic destruction of the world's tropical rain forests, particularly those in Latin America and Southeast Asia. Deforestation...
The leaching process retrieves even marginal deposits. One place where the method will be used is Angels Camp, Calif., about 120 miles east of San Francisco. Angels Camp provided Mark Twain with notebooks full of prospecting lore for his short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. Today workers...
Other miners continue to see a bonanza in more traditional methods. About eleven miles southeast of the Carson Hill site, Canadian-backed Sonora Mining has invested $85 million to build the largest conventional gold-processing mill in North America, due to open early next year. Sonora hopes to excavate 2...
No other sculptor's imagination was more manifestly connected to his past, even to his infancy, than Moore's. Like D.H. Lawrence, he came from a mining village; his father had labored in the pit and risen to become an engineer. His mother bore eight children, and one does not...