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Archaeologists unearth an unspoiled Mayan tomb...
Grant's Tomb, as the euphoric scientists subsequently named the 1,500-year-old find, is the first unspoiled Mayan burial chamber to be unearthed in two decades.*The discovery contained 15 clay pots, well-preserved wall paintings and a skeleton of a male believed to be in his 30s. Researchers, who announced the find last week, expect the contents to shed fresh light on a shadowy period of the mysterious Mexican and Central American civilization that flourished in the jungle from about...
...rapt and serious, "because it is so important to an understanding of my country. We believe in the dignity of each man, woman and child." Then he quoted from the Declaration of Independence. Reagan, who had earlier visited the excavation site of the vast terra cotta army protecting the tomb of the Emperor Qin, warned that the two nations must "escape the fate of the buried armies of Xian-the buried warriors who stood for centuries frozen in time, frozen in unknowing enmity." The Fudan students, most of whom understood English, interrupted his speech nine times with applause...
...degree of sober deliberation-story by story, as it were, rather than in one big rush. Dividends have been wrung from Pelli's calm style. The new MOMA does not creak with intrusive imagery. It does not look like an airport, a temple, a constructivist factory, a tomb or a fortress, to cite the five most popular types of recent museum. And it is blissfully free of the kind of capricious, name-dropping revivalism, the coy and schematic quotes, that some critics number among the joys of postmodernism...
...People, and a question-and-answer session with students at Shanghai's Fudan University. Besides the requisite stops at schools, suburban communes and the Great Wall, Reagan and Wife Nancy will take a one-day side trip to Xian, an archaeological wonder featuring the 2,000-year-old tomb of China's first Emperor. In addition to the sumptuous banquet at the Great Hall, the Reagans will be treated to a more intimate dinner with top Chinese leaders at the Diaoyutai guesthouse, a onetime imperial fishing resort more than 800 years old where the presidential couple will be staying...