Word: sites
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...truth is that Florence almost did not let the archaeologists excavate the site. The ruins were discovered in 1974, but the city argued over courses of action for more than a decade. Finally, archaeologists won permission for a three-year dig, funded with some $3 million from the Ministry of Cultural Affairs. The deadline for completion is November 1989, when the city must repave the square for the onslaught of 1990 World Cup soccer fans. As a result, bits and pieces of Florence's past are visible for a month, or sometimes only weeks, then are re-covered with sand...
...Associated Press photographer Mark Pesetsky was burned and he was roughed up by a mob when he attempted to take pictures of the crowd that had gathered near the site of yesterday's shooting...
Until recently, East-West distrust posed the largest hurdle to an effective ban. But in 1987, two years after Congress voted to end an 18-year moratorium on the American manufacture of chemical weapons, the Soviet Union acceded to U.S. demands for on-site "challenge inspections" to enforce a treaty. Today the larger obstacle is posed by Third World nations that are reluctant to give up what is known as the "poor man's atom bomb." Poison gases, after all, are cheap and easy to manufacture. "All a terrorist needs is a milk bottle of nerve gas," says a British...
...give ! Hong Kong its basic texture. One can see a computer-store manager keeping accounts with an abacus. Hong Kong's skyline bespeaks the sterile utility of modern commercial architecture, yet few of the colony's real estate developers would pick up a shovel before consulting a geomancer to site the building according to the rules of feng shui, meaning "wind and water" and envisioning a felicitous balance of place and design...
...issue is not the wrongness of Harvard Real Estate's plans for the site, because that is self-evident. The Undergraduate Council and the Harvard faculty, meeting as a body, have demonstrated the stupidity of the plans and of HRE's decision-making processes. The real issue is the incompatibility of Harvard Real Estate's aims in this case with those of the University as a humanistic enterprise. The University's scholars need spaces in which to think; Harvard Real Estate builds rooms for vacationing tourists. The frail symbiotic links between Cambridge and Harvard need to be nurtured through economic...