Word: sites
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...homeless, both old and new, to an early crisis as shelters everywhere brimmed over with people escaping the cold. Some could not escape: in Kansas City two homeless men were found frozen to death, one in a portable toilet at a downtown parking lot, the other in a construction-site trailer...
Between the inner and outer stone walls of the Forbidden City in Beijing, China, stand the barracks that housed the emperor's army for five centuries. Since the conversion of the royal family's palace into a public site, however, museum employees, not soldiers live here. For eight years, Wu Hung, now a tutor in the Fine Arts department, lived between these walls as a curator for the Palace Museum...
...developers said they expect to attract a mix of young professionals and others who want the convenience of easy access to Cambridge and Boston. "There are 15,000 people who work within a six-block radius of the building site," Davis said...
...They never find oil in great places, say at San Remo or on the Costa Brava," is the way he begins a yarn about an offshore drilling rig in Alaska. The 250-meter tower was constructed horizontally on land, then towed out through cold, leaden seas and righted on site by flooding chambers at the base. On paper the task seemed simple; in practice it required judgment, skill and luck that almost defy imagination. Some Third World jobs defy common sense. The designers of a bridge over an Indian river fail to account for winds that shake the structure apart...
...Angeles County in 1971, he helped excavate a UCLA Middle Horizon Indian site which dated back to 2000 B.C. But instead of getting his love for archaeology out of his system, the hands-on experience only fueled his passion...