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The international headlines in this week's (for the full story visit the
webzine) edition include:
** Forgotten treasures appear in Cuban museum
From works left behind by rich families who fled Cuba after the 1959
revolution to paintings rumored to have been sold off during hard times
** New museum offers addicts a fresh start
Former drug addicts are being given a second chance to help themselves back
into work through a pioneering scheme at Glasgow's new bus museum
** China's new vice museum offers a warning on dangers of 'sleaze'
The opulent walled compound where authorities say he bribed his way to
success has been opened as a museum
** Antarctic adventurer defrosts Australia's centenary flag
Far from the fierce Antarctic winds, Sir Douglas Mawson's flag flew again
yesterday in Sydney
** Homecoming for world's fastest car
The fastest car on earth is making a much slower journey to its new home at
a motor museum
** Switzerland a Nazi 'trade center'
Swiss art dealers sold paintings plundered from Nazi victims to Adolf Hitler
and one of his top aides, a new study said Thursday
** The bronze beauty just one of many vanished treasures
Worse, the pieces are the latest in a series of Silk City treasures that
have mysteriously disappeared over the years
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** Mardi Gras museum opens in Mobile
A new museum has opened in Mobile to recognize the nation's oldest
celebration of that annual party known as Mardi Gras
** Free admission brings more people and money to museum
From June 24, when the admission fee was dropped, through Aug. 26, more than
23,000 people have visited the museum
** Admission policy stirs debate at Taj
Most tourists come to India determined to see the Taj Mahal, the majestic
marble mausoleum that is one of man's great monuments to love
** Art historian criticizes National Gallery exhibition
A leading art historian has criticized Britain's National Gallery in London
for an upcoming exhibition
** Leave sunken British sub alone
Naval experts want the North Sea grave of 31 British servicemen who perished
in a First World War submarine not to be disturbed
** Statue wins extra time
The British Museum has been granted three months' reprieve in which to raise
the funds needed to buy a rare Roman sculpture
** City of Moriguchi turns back to historic roots
Newly opened Moriguchi Rekishikan museum provides tangible link with area's
farming past
** Posse to hunt for fallen meteor
Scientists in Colorado are organising a "meteorite posse" to hunt for the
space debris that caused a dazzling fireball last month
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** This Week's Horoscopes
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job designing the airliner's landing gear, Wednesday's newspaper sales would
have been much lower
** Museums in a Quandary: Where Are the Ideals?
Corrupt officials in Kenya, he said, had used the museum to seize private
property
** Museum's Got Allure For Nature Devotees
Sportsmen and taxidermists in the foothills of the Adirondacks are building
what will be an uncommon museum
** Treasure Trove of Twang
Leon Kagarise buried treasure beneath his mounds of junk, guarding it with a
collector's obsessive ardor
** Church plans art treasure sale
The Bishop of Durham has defended the Church of England's decision to sell
one of its most valuable collections of paintings
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** In The Beginning (And The End) Is The Word: Best Practices In Museum
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system instituted by the Nazi Regime
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