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Even more intriguing is the so-called Bent Pyramid, instantly recognizable by its strange, blunted profile. It has the best-preserved outer casing of any pyramid in Egypt, perhaps because the lower half of the monument is too steep for stone robbers to scale easily. Viewed from its base, the pyramid rises so abruptly that it seems at first glance to be about to break over visitors like a giant tidal wave...
...Hutu militiamen descended through the steep pastureland to the Trappist monastery early one Sunday in May. Their quarry were Tutsi, 800 of whom had fled their nearby homes in the Masisi highlands of eastern Zaire to take refuge in a brick church on the monastery grounds. As in Rwanda two years ago, the Hutu had a plan, recalls French Brother Victor Bordeau, 60, who had been hearing rumors of an attack for days: "First they would kill the Tutsi brothers, then attack the Tutsi refugees. Then drive the rest out of Zaire...
...himself a cottage overlooking the sea--a good place for a man whose four favorite words, a friend recalled, were "Mind your own business." He spent 27 years at Prout's Neck, relieved by excursions to New York and fishing trips to the Caribbean, Florida and the Adirondacks. Its steep, sea-gnawed granite ledges became the emblematic landscape of his finest work. No artist since Turner had painted the sea with such lyric concentration, from the beaming blue transparency of the Caribbean, captured in masterly watercolors, to the sullen beat and topple of gray combers driven by an Atlantic gale...
...production of these compounds. Now is the second stage, where we see a decline in the levels in the atmosphere." Lemonick says that chemicals currently present in the upper atmosphere will linger for years, and it remains to be seen if the slight drop can become a steep cut. "Reversing the trend of ozone depletion is like turning around a huge ocean liner," Lemonick says. "You can reverse the engines, but it still takes a while to change the ship's direction." If this trend is sustained, scientists say the Antarctic ozone hole, first detected in the 1980s, could begin...
Twenty-one years after the conflict ended, America continues to pay the costs of the Vietnam War. Once again, the price seems steep--and Vietnam appears to be getting the better of the U.S. According to the San Jose Mercury News, huge chunks of the $33.6 million the Pentagon has spent in the past four years to track down the 1,609 American military personnel still missing in the country have been diverted into the pockets of various Vietnamese officials, middlemen and hucksters. Among the alleged abuses: entire fleets of U.S.-owned vehicles, designated to drive investigators around, have been...