Word: sites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...silver ewers and vases. When the collection was bought through a New York dealer, J.J. Klegman, in 1966, it was widely rumored that the Met had at last acquired the so-called Lydian treasure trove. The Lydian collection came out of four 6th century tombs found near the ancient site of Sardis in Turkey. There is no doubt, according to Turkey's Foreign Minister Haluk Bayulken, that the entire Lydian collection was looted. Though the Met was invited by TIME to comment on the acquisition, it declined...
...addition, there appears to be some doubt as to whether the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) will be able to vacate the Library site by December 31, 1973, as originally planned...
...Federal Government brought in outrageous props, including war planes. There were too many theatrical asides aimed at the TV cameras and too many studied parallels to the Viet Nam War, including a "demilitarized zone" and "ceasefire observers." Finally there was the self-conscious symbolism of the choice of the site itself, the mass burial ground for victims of the U.S. Cavalry's most brutal massacre of the Indians...
...Following the accepted procedure, they performed a radical mastectomy, removing the affected breast, the underlying muscle tissue and the nearby lymph nodes. Then they subjected her to intensive radiotherapy, hoping that the X-ray bombardment would kill any residual cancer cells. But when cancer recurred at the operation site two years ago, and raised reddish, golf-ball-sized lumps on the flat area where her left breast had been, the doctors were stymied. Surgery was out of the question; the lumps were evidence that the cancer had spread too far. So was X-ray treatment. Mrs. Brown (not her real...
...internal anti-ballistic-missile system. Coming in contact with the invader, they recognize it by means of its biochemical flag, or identification marker. Every cell and microorganism is believed to carry at least one such flag on its surface; it fits, like a key in a lock, into a site on the lymphocytes. Thus lymphocytes, which know their body's own cells, recognize others as foreign and trigger an immunological alarm...