Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This forbidding continent has lately become more than the testing ground for explorers in mukluks and wooden sledges. It is being eyed acutely for mineral wealth, once deemed far too difficult and expensive to mine. Geologists have already confirmed that it holds great quantities of iron and coal, including perhaps the world's largest coal field, running more than 1,500 miles along the Transantarctic Mountains. There are strong indications of other treasures as well. More than 200 million years ago, before the world's continents began their slow drift apart, Antarctica was attached to South America, Africa...
...remarkable performance. Dozier forthrightly admitted he had been too busy to heed repeated warnings about potential terrorist attacks before his abduction. From the moment he was taken to the terrorists' Padua apartment on Dec. 17, Dozier was chained by his left ankle and right wrist to a raised wooden platform covered by a small camping tent. He was never allowed to get up or move around the apartment outside the tent. He washed himself with a pail of water brought to him once a week, and was supplied with a chemical toilet. His captors hung a white 40-watt...
...always had a yearning to do something dramatic, spectacular and improbable," confesses Daniel Fylstra, 30. One of the first demonstrations of that showed up in his back yard in Southern California, where as a boy he started building a wooden submarine. He failed to finish it, but he did go on to M.I.T. for a degree in electrical engineering and computer science, and later to the. Harvard Business School...
...view, it was also shameful for women to marry more than once. Even if a bride's betrothed died before the wedding, she could be forced to go through the ceremony with a wooden figure (or a symbolic rooster) and then spend the rest of her life single...
...muted space with such tact that the architecture never overwhelms or interferes with what it displays. Its climax is a slope-walled glass house-a twin to the gallery that houses the Egyptian Temple of Dendur on the other side of the museum-that contains the largest of the wooden figures. Enormous trouble was taken to safeguard the perishable organic materials of tribal art, the hair and wicker and wood and feathers, against the vagaries of New York's climate. Between them, the building and installation cost a total of $18.3 million...