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...ways in which languages evolve: the panel had to devise forms of communication that could be understood by the next 300 or so generations. One suggestion is a waste repository with a series of raised earth barriers built around it in a triangular pattern. Within this wedge would be monument-like markers, as durable and detectable as England's Stonehenge monoliths. These structures would bear triangular warning symbols or cartoons as simple in design as the 17,000-year-old cave drawings by Cro-Magnon man in France. One proposed sequence of drawings: three human figures stand...
...crowded into the historic burial ground to light candles in memory of the dead. This year the solemn tradition had a special poignancy. The photograph of a frail, youthful man in clerical collar had been nailed to a tree near an unmarked plot that has become the unofficial monument to those who died in the months following the imposition of martial law in December 1981. The inscription beneath the picture read KILLED BY SECURITY FORCES. For the mourners who added their candles to countless others flickering under the makeshift memorial, no other identification was necessary...
Perhaps the dispute over the war's monument at least will be put to rest. When Designer Maya Ying Lin's Viet Nam Memorial was unveiled in 1982, few denied the power of the low, somber black granite wall, now engraved with the names of 58,007 Americans dead or missing in the war. Nonetheless, many veterans felt that the wall was not uplifting, not heroic enough. So officials of the memorial fund risked the wrath of those who liked the wall as it was and asked Frederick Hart, 40, a Washington sculptor who had finished third...
...country began nervously worrying about problem loans at other big banks. But they at least could take heart in the fitness of banks like Continental's archrival, First Chicago (assets: $40.5 billion). Located just three blocks from Continental in the downtown financial district, First Chicago seemed like a monument of strength. While many other big banks were posting shaky profits, it announced in July a second-quarter earnings gain of 23% over 1983. Last week, however, First Chicago made a stunning disclosure that stirred new concerns about the soundness of the U.S. banking industry. Chairman Barry Sullivan stated that...
Everywhere he glanced he saw defeat, "even in the eyes of the ushers," and found no charm in it. Green wanted lights and still does. He did not want Ernie Banks, the Cubs' living monument. They had been paying Ernie to be Ernie. (Who better for the job?) Seeing other uses for the money, Green asked waivers on tradition and began redoing his roster in ex-Dodgers and ex-White Sox and ex-Red Sox and ex-Phillies most of all. Notably Second Baseman Ryne Sandberg, Leftfielder Gary Matthews, Rightfielder...