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...This piece of wood is so precious -- and a gift from God." These moving words were spoken reverently by George Jammal as he displayed the relic that he said had come from Noah's ark. His appearance was one of the highlights of The Incredible Discovery of Noah's Ark, a two-hour prime-time special that aired on CBS in February. What the network didn't know -- and didn't bother to find out -- was that Jammal was a hoaxer and that large segments of its program were based on blatant and ludicrous pseudo science...
...1990s she had come to seem like a relic of an earlier age to the younger women lawyers who now make up 24% of the profession (vs. 3% in the early 1970s), lovely to contemplate on a shelf somewhere but not as politically correct or savvy as the later models. Recently, Ginsburg and her friend Kathleen Peratis, a Manhattan lawyer, commiserated about "how we both were feeling like dinosaurs" when set beside today's feminist avant garde, who didn't experience sex discrimination in full bloom...
When she returned to her apartment the next day, the tavern had been reduced to a smoldering relic. She resolved then and there to find a safer abode. She could afford little on her meager wages, but found an apartment on Euclid Street. Though it was only blocks away from the place she had fled, the quiet block, mostly occupied by working-class black families, seemed like a different world. She has been there ever since...
...could be very handsome indeed. They included Minimalist signs, X's and quarterings, which made them seem more heraldic than natural. (Though the vertical split line that bisects Cabin Fever might be read as the finish post at the end of a horse race, it's probably just a relic of Minimalist style.) The opposites didn't amalgamate well. As Rothenberg herself put it, "My formalist side was denying my content side." And so "I began tearing it ((the horse)) apart to find out what it meant...
Thirty-eight years after opening on Las Vegas' neon-lit Strip, the famed Dunes Hotel has closed for good. The Dunes casino helped nurture Las Vegas' popularity -- and notoriety as a magnet for sharp-dressed mobsters. Its arching marquee became a relic in an age of larger resorts. Owner Steven Wynn plans to raze it and erect a new $400 million casino and family park...