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Corzo brought in a celebrated Italian husband-and-wife team of art restorers, Paolo and Laura Mora, who led six Italian and four Egyptian conservators in a year-long emergency campaign. They applied 10,000 strips of Japanese mulberry-bark paper to the walls and ceilings like Band-Aids, to keep plaster from crumbling and paint from flaking. Then began the painstaking work of restoration. The conservators swabbed every square inch of the tomb with distilled water, gently removing the accumulation of 3,000 years of dust and soot. In some areas, they chiseled the layers of plaster and paint...
...April ("Latino Culture Celebrated") on the Latino Conference sponsored by Raza, La Organization Estudiantil Boricua (La O) and Latinas Unidas was the first Latino-sponsored event to receive front page coverage all year. When The Crimson does report, it selectively concentrates on some politically controversial events, sensationalizing these as it ignores many other cultural and political events. An example of such reporting includes the year-long speaker series sponsored by BSA, which has received selective coverage as only the most controversial speakers were covered by The Crimson...
After all the paperwork is done, and the year-long contract is underway, many nannies say they can understand people's perceptions about Utah "Purity...
...most recent threat to Angkor arose during Cambodia's 20-year-long civil war, which began in the early 1970s. The Khmer Rouge, whose genocidal reign of terror killed an estimated 1 million Cambodians, did little direct damage to the monuments, but the fighting made maintenance impossible. Says B. Narasimhaiah, the head of an Indian archaeology team at Angkor Wat: "Wherever there is a small crack, dust will accumulate and soon a bush will spring up." All but a few of the major temples are covered in weeds, small bushes and even large trees...
...they were so impressed by Tsongas' message, they had plenty of time to give money in the year-long period that Tsongas had been stumping. What changed wasn't the message, but that Tsongas won New Hampshire. Suddenly, he looked electable. Suddenly, it was his influence the Wall Streeters were after...