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...finished, freed of 478 years of accumulated grime, crude repaints and successive coats of darkened glue size applied as a varnish by 17th and 18th century restorers. A quite different Michelangelo, one whose intensity and beauty of color matches his long-acknowledged grandeur as draftsman and iconographer, emerges. The vault of the Sistine is now the domain of light...
...been on our list of things to do before we graduated. We climbed spiral staircases; we poked into the back of stacks, tipping books from the shelves at random in the hope of opening doors to secret passages. We pretended to shut each other in the vault in the basement of the Kirkland library. We passed the rum in the second-floor stacks of the Eliot library. By the time we returned to Winthrop, tired and damp from the driving rain, I was both glad to have gone on the tour and glad to be done with it. The libraries...
...racing to develop their own hipster cars. Toyota is doing a bang-up job financially, forecast to post profits of $10.8 billion in its 2005 fiscal year, according to Prudential Equity Group. The company is gunning for 15% of the global market by 2010, which would most likely vault Toyota past GM as the world's largest automaker...
Security was also lax inside the company, Boyce stated. He broke the seals on code books and photographed them; the tampering was noticed but ignored. Clerks in TRW's "black vault," where National Security Agency codes were stored, "used the code-destruction blender for making banana daiquiris and mai tais...
...second frame, Harvard hit at a .417 clip, but the Scarlet Raiders pounded at a .571 rate to vault past the Crimson...