Word: replica
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...layers in a regular store are planned to the smallest detail in Ohio, then shipped out to the rest of the country to be recreated according to precise specifications. “All stores have the same items in the same places—everything is just a replica so that wherever an [Abercrombie executive] goes, he can walk in and know exactly where something is,” says Skey...
...life-size replica, complete with hollows, teeth and fossil-colored paint, was en route from Los Angeles when someone walked on top of its carrying crate and fell through. The skull had been welded onto a metal stand, and the impact sent a metal pole straight through the model. Luckily, the T-Rex skull has so many natural hollows that the pole simply went through the holes. The unfortunate interloper also was unharmed. Professor of Geology and of Biology Charles Marshall, who teaches Dinosaurs, received word of the accident before the shipment arrived and was relieved to see that...
...assorted levers. These Willy-Wonka-esque machines did your homework for you—or destroyed it all together. None of my friends, however, shared my slightly weird, slightly mundane peeve: failing to receive letters from my many pen pals with adequate frequency. My invention consisted of a cardboard replica of my family’s mailbox, in which I placed an alligator-on-a-stick circus toy. When the mailman failed to deliver any letters for me, the alligator, whose jaws were operated by a handle at the other end of the stick, would simply bite him. Needless...
...Ironically, the man who conceived of the Bamiyan replica, Oriental Buddha's chairman Liang Enming, was once a vice manager of Leshan's Cultural Relics Bureau, charged with protecting the very tombs he has allegedly wrecked. In the mid-'90s, Liang?whose handlers said he wasn't available to answer TIME's questions?left public service to head a private company and saw his chance when the Taliban eradicated their own cultural heritage. "This replica," he said at the time, "will make it possible for those who have never seen the statue to look for themselves at its great beauty...
...next to the theme park. She and other locals claim that the trees are being planted to cover up evidence of destroyed tombs before high-level visitors examine the site. In the meantime, guards roam the park's perimeter, keeping unwanted visitors from peeking in. As for the Bamiyan replica itself, its stone eyes remain hidden behind a massive veil, unable to witness the brouhaha its birth has created...