Sure, it’s gold, but does it open?

The Olympic medals awarded in Vancouver next month will be cool, bearing the imprint of work by a First Nations artist (that is, a Native Canadian) and stamped out of undulating sheets of metal, but they would have been ever cooler had more of the original design survived. (Full article: 670 words)

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