She also argues that the CIA has a history of making inconvenient documents vanish, and said her staff was concerned that something similar might happen with the Panetta Review.
Soon, the document vanished from the Web site.
The university hospital wrote a letter on my mother's behalf, but this well-meaning document vanished into some bureaucrat's file cabinet in suburban Virginia, and it soon became clear that there was nothing to be done.
So the World Oral Literature Project aims to document vanishing languages – and everything about the culture and society they convey – before they disappear.
That conclusion inevitably results from viewing "Before They Pass Away," the British photographer Jimmy Nelson's tombstone-size new volume (teNeues, $150) documenting vanishing tribal cultures around the world.
It was the Great Train Robbery of French intellectual life: thousands of treasured documents that vanished from the Institut de France in the mid-1800s, stolen by an Italian mathematician.
The suspects, John W. Rooney, 69, and Marshall Pierce 3rd, 39, pleaded not guilty in federal court in Manhattan on Friday to charges that they conspired to sell an original copy of the Treaty of Fontainebleau and dozens of other historic documents that vanished from the French archives in 1988.
When veterans submit their paperwork electronically, it is instantly accessible to anyone working on the case, eliminating delays and reducing the likelihood that documents will vanish.
Controversial in their day, movies such as High School (threatened with legal action), Law And Order (ditto), and Titicut Follies (instantly banned for nearly 25 years) are now invaluable documents of entirely vanished places, people, subcultures and mindsets.
