Before the Communists came to power in 1949, travellers reported an eighth wonder of the world: a green if dusty city, largely unaltered from the medieval plan laid out under Kublai Khan and built upon by the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1912) dynasties.

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Still, people fall for tricks by the droves and some of them have become iconic, if not old and dusty.

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Six chemists spent long nights paging through piles of dusty chemistry journals in the Monsanto library to see if anyone had invented a COX-2 inhibitor without realizing it.

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Creative director Takizawa feels that if there's one thing Uniqlo can steal from Gap's dusty playbook, it's the genius for merchandising that Mickey Drexler, former CEO of Gap, now at J.

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He knew the names of all the Mexican fighters as if they lived here, as if they were Dodgers players, like Steve Sax or Steve Yeager, Dusty Baker, Kenny Landreaux or Mike Marshall, Pedro Guerrero.

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If anything, their confidence was bolstered once they had a chance to examine the drawing outside the dusty old frame, and found a small signature hidden under a mount.

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In the meantime, Romney did some executive huffing and puffing, summoning up a dusty 1914 miscegenation statute that barred out-of-state couples from marrying in Massachusetts if their union was prohibited at home.

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