Word: priceless
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...fifth will be published in 1998, along with a CD-ROM and a documentary film) and several major articles in National Geographic (another will appear in the October issue). Most important to scholars, though, is the fact that Beckwith and Fisher are making the collection available to researchers--a priceless ethnographic archive that will endure no matter what happens to the tribes. Beckwith and Fisher, says art historian Christine Mullen Kreamer of the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, "are making valuable contributions to the visual anthropology of Africa...
...expressions on the locals' faces were priceless. The middle-aged men sitting around the bar--fully bearded pirates with crooked the teeth and beer bellies--looked satisfied with life and relaxed. Ditto for the women watching the movie intently...
...next day Pollard and Johnson met at a hotel adjacent to Olympic Stadium and talked privately for 15 minutes. Johnson, who is about to reap endorsement bounty, graciously accepted an old warmup jacket from Pollard. Some things are priceless...
Still, in Olympic City you can get a chill from something other than a giant Coke bottle. In the Coliseum Tent there is an exhibit of "priceless artifacts" from the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. Whether it be Baron Pierre de Coubertin's saber or Jesse Owens' track shoe or a medal from the first Games in Athens, the artifacts can do a better job of transporting you to the Olympics than, say, the mountain-biking simulation. The museum pieces are not only keepsakes of the Games' history, but also reminders that this city has been handed a glorious legacy...
...really think anyone is searching for Jesus? If he were found, there would be hell to pay. Theologians would go out of business, and thousands of priceless works of art would have to be redone. I hope whoever finds the "real" Jesus first will be smart enough to forget about the discovery and let the rest of us continue believing in our own private and comfortably familiar version of the man. MICHAEL JANSSEN Melbourne, Australia...