Word: preservationism
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If you're lucky enough to get a room with a view, you'll see it right away. A shimmering monument of white, it floats above the shabby city of Agra. From afar, the Taj Mahal is as beautiful as the poets promise?a glowing tribute to obsessive adoration and...
It's not that India hasn't tried to take care of the Taj Mahal. Several state environmental lawsuits have demanded action. Polluting foundries and factories have been closed down on Supreme Court orders. But the Archaeological Survey, the agency responsible for the building's conservation, has neither the funds...
But for conclusive proof, Van Schaik needed a control group of directly comparable orangutans living in the same ecological circumstances that still broke open the fruit and plucked out a few accessible seeds, wasting most of the nutrition. His own group, he knew, had a much higher degree of cooperation...
Prior to joining Carver, Wright served as president of the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation, a Federal initiative designed to revitalize distressed communities, and as New York’s commissioner of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development.
More anomalies piled up. The mummy had gas in its abdomen and pelvis, suggesting faulty preservation techniques. Its brain had been extracted through the mouth, while Egyptian mummies had theirs removed through the nose. An incision in the abdomen looked suspiciously like a stab wound. Some of the woman's...