Viewing lives, rudely interrupted.(Features)(Arts & Leisure)(Pompeii Unearthed) From: The Christian Science Monitor | Date: November 26, 1999 | COPYRIGHT 1999 The Christian Science Publishing Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The name Pompeii suggests the frailty of life in the face of convulsive natural forces. It epitomizes a comfortable, carefree world destroyed in a flash. It's perhaps fitting, then, that Los Angeles, whose sunny outdoor lifestyle seems under perpetual threat of earthquakes and mud slides, is the only United States stop of the largest exhibit of artifacts from Pompeii ever to travel abroad.

As most schoolchildren vaguely know, the prosperous Italian coastal town of Pompei...

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