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With the 2006 Winter Games less than 100 days away, Valentino Castellani, president of the Torino Olympic Committee, spoke with TIME about transforming his city, best known for its famous shroud and as the birthplace of Fiat and Italian industrial design, into an international showpiece...
...their most famous piece of real estate. Who knew what wonders they might have unearthed digging beneath the Mosque to the alleged Temple of Solomon, not far from where Christ was crucified? They claimed to own a piece of the True Cross; they may very well have possessed the Shroud of Turin, since it was a Templar descendant's family that first made it public; and unsubstantiated rumor has put them in possession of both the Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Grail. The latter claim provided an inexhaustible source of inspiration for fabulists from medieval romance peddlers...
...This entire process occurs in a shroud of secrecy. Outside professors entering at the tenure level may not even know that they are being considered for a position. Regardless, Casey notes that professors who are eminent enough to be seriously considered generally have an idea that Harvard is looking at them before they receive an offer. “At that level,” he says, “it’s difficult not to know...
...simple. Published in the Aug. 30 issue of Nature, the paper shows that the creation of a comet is probably a much more complicated process than anyone thought. The evidence comes from the Spitzer Space Telescope, which uses infrared-sensitive cameras to peer through the shroud of dust that surrounds newly forming planetary systems to see what's going on inside. In one such system, known as IRAS 4B, about 1,000 light-years from Earth, astronomers from the University of Rochester have detected a disk-shaped knot of material that will one day emerge as a suite of planets...
...Angolans still live below the country's poverty line. Cholera and malaria are rife, and child mortality rates are among the worst in the world. A kilometer away from Nova Vida, in the shanty town of Cambamba, children play in open sewers, and piles of burning garbage shroud shacks in foul-smelling clouds of smoke. As Valdemir puts it: "The rich use mineral water. For us there is no water. No electricity or sanitation either...