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Radcliffe's principal value is as a relic. It's like a Gregorian chant, hundreds of years old, though still relevant to music today. It's a living, breathing scrapbook of brick and mortar and fundraising officers who make us remember days gone by. It's the stuffed head of your dead grandfather that the family keeps over the fireplace to remind you of the time that he fought in the Great War and the right side of his face hadn't been eaten away by maggots...
...relic from the past, the DBCstation "husc7" is still on-line, although its software ware hasn't been updated for a while. If all else fails trying to log into "fas" without waiting endlessly. this machine is worth a shot...
...presence of what may be ancient species is evidence that Vu Quang and its environs have been ecologically stable for millions of years. "With no fluctuations in climate," Arctander explains, "relic species can survive for a very long time." Both Arctander and Groves say that given the diversity of the area, and its ability to support many large herbivores such as the newly discovered species as well as elephants, cattle-like gaur, sambar deer and forest hogs, the region may have served as a refuge through the ages, even as climate fluctuated elsewhere in Southeast Asia...
Time: the early 21st century. Scene: the First Church of Christ, Smoker, the only place where nicotine addicts can find sanctuary in a society that has declared their pastime illegal. Communicants file up to the altar rail for a long drag on a cigarette -- a precious, stale relic from the last carton of Marlboros sold before the U.S. government banned smoking in 1997. The priest blesses the faithful, they cough in response, and all exeunt to today's hymn, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes...
...some, it seems almost like a relic of the Cold War, when Harvard researchers conducted experiments with radiation on retarded children in Massachusetts...