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...booty dug up by grave robbers at an Etruscan site north of Rome in 1971 and illegally sold to an expatriate American named Robert E. Hecht Jr. He in turn, so the story went, smuggled the vase out of Italy and sold it to the Met. In 1970 UNESCO adopted a draft prohibiting illicit traffic in art objects. The calyx krater would come under that provision, and both the U.S. and Italy have signed the pact...
...expected to quintuple by 1980. To reach Brazil's 15 million illiterates (26% of the population), Mobral has established 67,000 centers throughout the country. Yet despite the scope of the program, the cost of making a student literate is only $9.33, about $25 less than a UNESCO-estimated average. "There is nothing very new in the didactic methods," explains Economist Mario Henrique Simonsen, head of Mobral. "The structure had to be simple, and it had to be cheap. We had to use the available assets in the municipalities. Additionally, the average Mobral teacher makes only about...
...after hard structural and spatial lessons have been learned. For Breuer, his most commercially successful period began in 1953, when he was barely into his 50s. Though he was practicing on his own in New York by that time, his breakthrough came with a major commission in France: the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. With it, he burst out of the Bauhaus box and turned to concrete, becoming more adventurous in its use than any other U.S. architect except perhaps I.M. Pei. He faceted façades with angled, deep-set windows, niches and geometrical shapes-all enlivened by the play...
This month they will present their 313-page report* to delegates at a UNESCO conference in Paris...
...acres of ruins in three months, a job that would have taken six years using traditional methods. To encourage other foreign archaeologists to excavate Carthage, the Tunisian government has promised them that they can keep or borrow a portion of their Punic and Roman finds. "With scientific digging," declares UNESCO's Fradier, "Carthage can be completely restored in 15 to 20 years. So far as tourists are concerned, in two or three years we'll have put Carthage back...