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In modern times the Sinai had become a backwater protected from the ravages of the modern world, and perhaps it would have remained one of the world’s undiscovered spots if it hadn’t been for one invention: Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus (SCUBA).
Not until a 20th-century Western architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, arrived in Tokyo to build the earthquake-resistant Imperial Hotel was it considered possible — let alone desirable — to attempt to defy the ravages of nature.
An active government cultural policy in recent years has preserved the architectural monuments of the “national patrimony” from the ravages of time, weather, war, revolution, and urban development.
The pipeline's negative environmental impact and the ravages of the Valdez spill are downplayed.
Luckily, two truly magnificent museums preserve the region’s treasures from the ravages of earthquake and theft.