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Smooth-experience campers will soon have their own lavish shrine. On Sept. 13, R.E.I., a national retail cooperative that sold $448 million worth of outdoor equipment and clothing last year, will open the doors of its 80,000-sq.-ft. flagship store in Seattle. Spanning more than a two-acre city block, the store will feature a mountain-bike test trail encircling a 35-ft. man-made waterfall, and a "rain room" courtesy of Gore-Tex in which customers can try out foul-weather wear...
Still, in the past five or 10 years researchers have managed to uncover a number of key sites, including the monument-strewn ruins of Teopantecuanitlan in the Mexican state of Guerrero, and the sacred shrine at El Manati, whose murky springs yielded the first examples of wooden Olmec statuary and the earliest known evidence of child sacrifice in Mesoamerica. Heat and hardship notwithstanding, the prospect of understanding the still shrouded origins of Mesoamerican civilization--and the haunting beauty of the items on display at the National Gallery--makes it all seem worthwhile...
...hundred yards from the track is the Baylor football stadium, an imposing structure obviously well fed by alumni. Inside the lobby is a small display case devoted to Michael Johnson's exploits, and seated in one of the plush chairs near the shrine is Johnson. He is friendly and modest and in no particular hurry. "Jesse Owens is my idol, but please don't compare me to him," he says. "I don't face the same pressures...
Perhaps appropriately, the Olympic-torch route through Washington is the most convoluted of any city's so far, with the potential to replicate the metaphorical gridlock on Capitol Hill with the real kind as 145 torch runners pay homage at every shrine in hopes of slighting no one. It's a touchier city than most: there are three branches of government to tip your hat to, plus the city administration, the various military services and their cemeteries and memorials, Presidents living and dead and the Vice President, who is said to be alive. Then there is a black college...
Less than a month has passed since more than 100 Lebanese civilians were slaughtered by an Israeli artillery barrage on a U.N. compound. In that time, the village of Qana has become a shrine to Lebanon's rage and anguish. Photographs of the victims, who include at least 25 children under the age of 12, adorn a cement memorial. Black banners decry Israel's "terrorism" and "barbarity." But did Israel attack the U.N. base deliberately? Lebanese say yes. Israel vehemently says no, it was an accident. Last week the U.N. reported on its own investigation by Secretary-General Boutros Boutros...