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The international headlines in this week's (for the full story visit the
webzine) edition include:

**  Master of his universe
From jets to dish racks and concept cars to, ahem, vibrators - Marc Newson
has transformed them all

**  Swiss plan to rebuild Buddhas destroyed by Taliban
Two Buddhas blown up by the Taliban in one of their most extreme acts of
vandalism are going to be rebuilt

**  The Mummy returns
A painstaking facelift for Auckland Museum's favourite mummy should see it
back on public display in time for the museum's 150th birthday next year

**  'I am the king of painters'
Iranian mullahs were so furious about his Gulf war paintings that they
wanted to pay Vicari £5m to destroy them

**  Chinese American National Museum and Learning Center Opens
Sometimes it takes succeeding generations to build what the first could only
begin to dream of

**  Tasty Harvard exhibit nibbles away at barriers
The piece's museum label, which was made out of chocolate, has already been
devoured

**  Sheriffs' artifacts in custody of museum
The museum features artifacts such as rusty ball-and-chain restraining
devices that prisoners once wore
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**  Arts Panel Backs Planters to Guard Smithsonian Museums
Smithsonian architect Harry Romback said the purpose of the barriers is to
keep vehicles from striking the buildings

**  Scientists Unveil Pompeii Bathhouse
Archaeologists have unveiled another steamy corner of ancient Pompeii, and
this time it is an eyeful: a bathhouse with a unisex dressing room whose
lockers sport erotic sex scenes

**  Lawrence of Arabia wrote letter considering suicide
The previously unseen correspondence will be seized on by those not
convinced that his death in a motorcycle crash three months later was an
accident

**  Firm To Renovate Three Major Landmarks
All three were included in a special program developed by the St. Petersburg
Sculpture Museum that was intended to stimulate and inspire potential
sponsors

**  Archive Treasures on U.S. Tour
George Washington's inaugural address and the deed of gift from France for
the Statue of Liberty are back in New York

**  Destruction of Pompeii
See this video presentation from the Archaeology Channel. Realmedia required
to view this

**  Ramadan events in Sharjah
The festival will be organised at the Heritage Museum and the Islamic Museum
and will continue until December 5.

**  Epitaph for a horse
It wasn't quite the Roman Empire, when a horse might reasonably aspire to a
position in the Senate

**  An ace chap with a sharp new museum attached
For far too long the V&A was a fusty, dusty maze of a place, with a jumble
of artefacts drawn from every culture and age, poorly lit and amateurishly
labelled

**  Publication of Dead Sea Scrolls Completed
The modern technology of e-mail and laser printing speeded up the
publication of complete volumes of the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls

**  N.Y. museums, galleries cancel shows, lay off staff
At the same time as they are struggling with lower revenue, museums have
been forced to increase security measures to guard against attacks

**  Welsh arts centre 'a tacky design hell'
The Centre for the Visual Arts in Cardiff, arguably the most ill-conceived
millennium project to make it off the drawing board

**  This Week's Horoscopes
Leo: (July 23-Aug. 22) You will be kept in the supermarket after it closes
and forced to retake all the taste tests until you pass

**  This Week's GLOBAL MUSEUM CAPTION CONTEST

**  Sequined Surfaces: Haitian Vodoun Flags

**  Marketing Workshop     Sydney Chapter of Museums Australia NSW

**  Frontier Conflict: the Australian Experience
A forum at the National Museum of Australia, Canberra
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**  The Central Registry of Information

**  Memory Traveling Exhibition

**  2002 Conference - Text in the City: Germany and City Life

**  VSA Conference in Cody, Wyoming

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**  New PhD track in Archaeology at the University of South Florida

**  Best Indigenous Artwork On Show

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