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...supposed healing properties (it's common to find chunks of it lying in homes to counter bad luck). Malachite is used in popular fashion accessories, worn by Chilean women in bracelets and anklets as they sashay down the Parque Arauco Mall. But lapis, the most well-known Chilean stone, is the visitors' favorite. Expect to pay $100 for a choker necklace and earrings, $200 for a longer chain, and $600 for a pair of candlesticks. A word of caution: Chilean lapis may contain veins of chalk, which lower the quality. Some shopkeepers artfully cover up these imperfections with blue paint...
...Brown used computerized tomography (CT) scans and computer imagery to make the Morwood team's cast of the skull. He claims the crude cast-making method that damaged the skull is illegal. "It's a bit like some scholar went to the British Museum and stole the Rosetta Stone and made a copy of it, trashed the original in doing it - then had the only copy,'' he says. Jacob denies that any damage was done to the bones in his lab - or even that a cast has been made. "(The Australians) blame us for everything," he says. "They think they...
...most severe anxiety caused by the current system comes weeks after the groups have been set in stone: the housing lottery. Shuttle service aside, keeping up close friendships over increased distance takes time and effort, two things that no undergrad ever seems to have enough of. The frenzy associated with blocking season stems primarily from the fact that it’s hard to imagine that everything will work out in the end—especially if best friends one through eight are Quadded and number nine ends up on the River...
Spelling Bee is quite comfortable in its 296-seat off-Broadway home, where it has been selling out since its early February opening, so there's the usual trepidation about the move to grander, Broadway digs. Producer David Stone insists that the quick transfer was done not to get in under the wire for the Tony nominations but to take advantage of the show's momentum. "The actors were getting so much attention--people clamoring to offer them things--the only way we were going to keep them together was to go quickly," he says. Two splashier Broadway musicals--Monty...
...have spent a lot of time,” Stone said. “Working on the power play and penalty kill throughout the week and it has paid...