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...Weyden, and Raphael's Alba Madonna. Initially, plans called for the paintings to be taken to Mount Weather and hung on the walls there, arranged not by artist or period but by the size of the canvas. Curators were worried, however, that the site's humidity would destroy the paintings. Victor Covey, then the gallery's senior conservator, designed an ingenious lightweight metal container on wheels that one person could roll through the gallery and, within minutes, gather up the 18 or 19 most prized paintings, then slip them into designated slots. Inside the container was a tool chest with...
...allies. Washington is prepared to go it alone, says a senior Bush adviser, but "we've gone to a lot of effort to construct a world where we could get the civilized community to agree on moves to deal with outlaws. To the extent we do things unilaterally, we destroy that which we're trying to build...
Miller's presentation is meant to destroy myths about the College and to allay fears of rigid formulas and Staggering odds...
Every subatomic particle has a corresponding antiparticle, identical in mass but differing in one crucial characteristic, like electric charge. Positrons, which carry a positive charge, are the antiparticles of electrons, which are negative. Matter and antimatter destroy each other whenever they meet, and because interstellar clouds are full of electrons, these particular collisions have been fingered as the power behind the Great Annihilator...
...millions recorded by assiduous empire builders. Only a trickle have so far been leaked to the public, though the Russian government is now setting up guidelines for publication of more. But even these few offer revelations of party crimes and misdeeds on a massive scale: Communist campaigns to destroy the church, starve peasants in forced famines, purge political opponents and resettle entire ethnic groups. The financing of terrorists, who received arms shipments from Soviet warships on the high seas. The personal enrichment of party leaders. The sale of diamonds and gold abroad to buy food and consumer goods for wartorn...