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...museum-builders' attitudes towards antiquities: "It was a different time, with attitudes that are shocking to today's sensibilities. At that time, what antiquities you saw and you liked, you took. Perhaps you took it for the glory of your country, or for the glory of your country estate. What you left untouched was either out of a vague sense of propriety, or for lack of logistical support, or for fear of running afoul of an unpredictable, often-distant authority...For centuries, plunder had been the rule rather than the exception, and the privileges of colonial tribute seemed to bestow...
...Physics for the discovery.) Gabor, however, lacked the technology to perfect holograms; double images sometimes appeared at once and were not viewable. In the 1960s, Emmett Leith added lasers to the equation and rendered the first stable holograms - which included a toy train that astounded other scientists when they saw...
...Blitzer and his virtual correspondent, most viewers probably don't care whether what they saw was a real hologram or a fake one - which means CNN probably doesn't either. Still, promises Bohrman, "when and if technology allows us to do this for real, we really will...
...woman interviewed by the BBC, “The fighting began near our home in the middle of the night. There was a lot of gunfire and ‘mabombi’ —explosions [shelling]. Some people were caught in the middle of the fighting. I saw them die; and after seeing them I knew we had to run away or else we would also die with them.” And later, “Of everything though, the only thing I am asking for is peace...
...Republican incumbent Saxby Chambliss had led his Democratic challenger Jim Martin for most of Tuesday night, but saw his lead dwindle in the early hours of Wednesday morning. In Georgia, state election law requires a runoff if neither candidate wins 50% of the vote plus one. By midday Wednesday, Chambliss had 49.9% and Martin had 46.7% according to state election officials. (A third candidate had the remainder of the votes and will not be part of any runoff...