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For most of its 4,500 years, the Great Sphinx stood guard over the pyramids of Giza from behind a 14-ft. limestone beard. Now, centuries after unknown forces gave the enigmatic monument a shave, some Egyptian authorities want to restore the Sphinx to its former hirsute splendor. Their interest...
Only 15% of the original beard is known to exist. Most of that is in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, but a 31 -in.-long fragment sits in a back room at the British Museum in London. The Egyptians want the missing link reinstated. The British have agreed to loan...
Since that time, archaeologists, historians and architects have descended upon the site to dig up the foundations of the city, restore ancient buildings to their former grandeur, and unearth thousands upon thousands of ceramic remains, coins, and other artifacts. Fifty thousand photographs fill the files of their Harvard office, dozens...
Equally precarious is the fledgling government of Sir Paul Scoon, the island's Governor-General. Two weeks ago, Antony Rushford, a Briton who was appointed by the Commonwealth to be Scoon's legal adviser, abruptly left Grenada after attacking the Governor-General as "quite unfit" to help restore...
Perhaps the most intractable problem Alfonsin faces, however, is the Argentine economy. The nation's $40 billion foreign debt has pushed it to the brink of international default, while at home Argentines luffer under triple-digit inflation and 15% unemployment. The new government's economic plans are a...