Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...alumnus, who asked to remain anonymous, said that the removal of what he called the Busch's main art collection and the installment of plastic casts, most of which are now in storage, have upset some alumni. Plastic casts are reproductions of three-dimensional art which have scholarly but little market value...
...light filtering through the water. It was a piece of gold jewelry that had remained hidden from sight for 34 centuries. In the next several minutes, the team members uncovered more jewelry, a quartz bead, broken arrowheads and pottery shards, which they stored in a red-and-white plastic container. To mark the precise spot of each discovery, they poked bicycle spokes into the sand, then measured the distance between the spokes and fixed reference points. Knowing the exact location of each item will enable the archaeologists to map the site accurately...
Back on deck, everyone crowded around as Bass and one of the divers opened the plastic container and examined a gold pendant bearing the image of a fanciful star with long wavy rays. "That's Canaanite," said Bass. "No question about it." On a smaller gold pendant was the figure of a woman with a tall headdress, wide skirt and both feet pointed to one side. "The figure's so Egyptian!" exclaimed Bass. "We've had three or four pendants like this on the expedition...
...tugs, in effect directing the ship's backwash straight down and forming a clear vertical column of water extending to the sea floor. The mailboxes not only improved visibility below but washed away silt and sand. Fisher's divers have been further equipped with an air lift, a long plastic tube that clears sand away with a blast of compressed air. Still, the search was arduous--and costly to Fisher, both financially and emotionally; in 1975 his oldest son, his daughter-in-law and a crew member were drowned when a tug used in the quest capsized during a storm...
...more innocent age, perhaps, sports in the U.S. were played for the sheer thrill of winning. But today, in an era when stadium grass is plastic and the players are depreciable assets, big-time sports are played for money, and lots...