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...souvenir hunters. Such removals have become rare, but most visitors still have little interest in preservation. A few foreign groups, however, have made major contributions. The University of Chicago's Oriental Institute has been documenting and helping to preserve the temples and tombs at Luxor since the late 1920s. And perhaps the model project is the spectacular effort to restore Nefertari's tomb. The 32-century-old mausoleum, discovered in 1904, has been officially closed since the early 1950s because of its fragile condition. Beginning in 1986, the Getty Institute, in partnership with the EAO, started the delicate, painstaking salvage...
...place in history. But some Chicagoans would rather forget the legendary mobster. When Mark Levell, 29, a computer technician and amateur historian, proposed to the U.S. Interior Department that it designate as a historic site the red brick house on Chicago's South Side where Scarface lived during his 1920s crime wave, he sparked a heated reaction...
...brace yourself for a surprise. He will inform you that black Harlem is one of the city's main attractions; that its 330 years echo with history, beauty and drama; that its imposing, if often scorched, architecture tells tales of the exuberant black metropolis that flourished in the 1920s; that in no other New York City district can you find the vitality and graciousness of Harlem on a , good day. Maybe, too, the foreigner wants to brag to friends back home that he saw Harlem and survived. Sure enough, on a bus trip run by Harlem Spirituals Inc., the black...
...speculators had built too much too fast. So in 1904 a black real estate agent named Philip A. Payton rented apartments to blacks who were even then being displaced from their midtown homes by the new Pennsylvania Station railyards. The scheme succeeded beyond the speculators' wildest nightmares. By the 1920s, Harlem was mostly black...
...odds, belief has been preserved through ancient rites and modern- day courage. Russian Orthodoxy and, even more, Judaism still suffer serious limitations. Nonetheless, as glasnost penetrates everyday life, believers are starting to enjoy wider freedoms than at any other time since the atheistic persecutions were launched during the 1920s...