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...preparation for the erection of a new nine-story complex. The archaeological team sent to the site knew the area had been the Elizabethan theater district, but no one expected to find vestiges of the Rose, which was built in 1587. The team stumbled onto chalk foundations, sloped mortar flooring and, most astonishingly, the base of the stage 6 ft. below the ground. From the debris, scientists have determined that the Rose was a small polygon-shaped theater, just 43 ft. in diameter, with plaster walls and a thatched roof. Viewers sat in tiered galleries or stood...
...Fort Ord, Calif., began arriving at Howard Air Force Base, near Panama City. They will be joined by other light-infantry units from Fort Polk, La., and Marine assault troops from Camp Lejeune, N.C. Also transported into Panama will be some 200 support vehicles, including armored personnel carriers and mortar carriers. At the same time, hundreds of military dependents in Panama evacuated their homes and moved to the safety of the ten U.S. military bases that bestride the 50-mile- long Panama Canal...
...Prosecutors believe he intended to plant them in the New York City area in retaliation for the U.S. air raid on Libya. U.S. District Judge Alfred J. Lechner Jr. said the bombs, packed with black powder and lead shotgun pellets, "were intended for flesh and blood, not bricks and mortar...
...week's shocking toll on the shoddy construction of the buildings in Armenia's cities and towns. According to Brian Tucker, acting state geologist of California who has visited Armenia, many buildings in the region are made of 8-in.-thick concrete slabs held together by metal hooks and mortar. Poorer Armenians, he says, tend to live in "very fragile, very deadly houses" made of unreinforced mud and rock. Yet geologists have long known that the region affected by the quake is interlaced with small faults in the earth's crust and has been shaken by dozens of serious tremors...
...finished paintings only partly hides. "If ((drawing)) does not insist on its importance," writes the show's curator, John Elderfield, in his catalog essay -- as acute and satisfying a text as any critic in recent memory has written on drawing -- "it is because its importance is that of mortar between bricks, barely noticeable at times but what holds the structure together and keeps it firm...