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Americans sometimes ask what the government does and where their tax money goes. Among other things, it pays for all kinds of invisible but essential safety nets and life belts and guardrails that are useless right up until the day they are priceless. Furious critics charged last week that the government had not heard the warnings. Instead it cut the funds for flood control and storm preparations, mangled the chain of command, missed every opportunity. And an angry debate opened about how much the demands of the Iraq war, on both the budget and the National Guard, were eating into...
...extraordinary pottery bird, never before seen in the Pacific, one of three originally on the rim of a pot which contained human bones and was decorated with mouthless human faces. The birds were perched looking into the bowl: "God knows what that means," says Spriggs. Such objects will make priceless museum pieces. But the answers that the Teouma site may help provide are just as precious. The tussle over the origins of the Lapita and Polynesian people has boiled for more than a century, from the 1885 publication of New Zealand scholar Edward Tregear's widely debated theory that Maori...
...would never know it. It takes the form of a small town comedy, based primarily on King's memories of Tomah, Wisconsin, where he grew up. Centered on an alley of garages and a core of auto buffs, the early years of the strip now read like a priceless snapshot of America's burgeoning car culture. The central group of four friends are constantly patching tires, cleaning spark plugs and trading in their old Lizzies for newer models. One clever strip has an entire conversation in car-related numbers...
Your article "The Man with the Golden Helmet" [ESSAY, Dec. 16] brings to mind the expression, What's in a name? Obviously a great deal, since the renowned and "priceless" work by Rembrandt has fallen to one-twentieth of its previous value. One should ask, "What is in art?" A name? Stephen G. Schulhoff Baltimore...
...perch in the prompter's box and, later, from a catwalk 40 ft. above the stage. But then he abandoned the project, and the fragile, two-minute wax cylinders were left to decay and, in some cases, break and disappear. As early as 1938, collectors began preserving the priceless vocal treasures. Now a team of two critics and a recording engineer, under the auspices of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, the Performing Arts Research Center and the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center, has heroically rescued all 134 of the surviving playable cylinders and issued them...