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** Cows can again be Elsie at Canadian museum  **
Directors at the Ottawa museum were stampeded this week into reversing a ban
on human names for newborn animals

** Earliest Known Dinosaurs Found In Madagascar **
The jawbones of two kangaroo-sized dinosaurs found in Madagascar may be the
remains of the oldest dinosaurs ever found


**Thomas Hoving brings art to ``Everyman'' **
"Art for Dummies'' in its 366 pages discusses everything from prehistoric
art to the Renaissance, Impressionism and modern art

** Scientists Dig Up Near-Intact Woolly Mammoth   **
Scientists said they had dug a woolly mammoth from the Siberian permafrost

** British Art Prize Set To Stir Controversy - Again   **
From graphic descriptions of teenage sex to a camera made from a washing
machine, Britain's most famous art prize Tuesday stirred a hornet's nest of
controversy

**Bids Hot For Rare Plate **
A rare 17th century pewter plate commemorating England's lady-loving King
Charles II

** Europeans Are Sitting Ducks For Yankee Birds **
They're overfed, oversexed, and over here. But this time it's not American
soldiers fanning out in Europe. It's American ducks


**Art Buyer Nets Hockney Gem With Old Kitchen Blind **
The man who owns James Bond's Aston Martin, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the
Batmobile, Wednesday bought an old kitchen blind covered in pictures by
David Hockney for $18,200


**Millennium Discovery Centre loses £27m grant **
PLANS to build a national museum of discovery collapsed yesterday when the
Millennium Commission withdrew its offer of a £27 million grant, saying that
the scheme was unviable

** WYLAND paints 84th Whaling wall **
The New Zealand National Maritime Museum in Auckland is the site of the
latest WYLAND whale mural. The artist and his team completed the project in
a week


** Pharaohs left behind a radioactive curse **
Forget fatal fungi and diabolical booby traps. Some of Egypt's ancient
monuments harbour a more insidious threat--they contain high levels of the
radioactive gas radon. .


** Museum to alter £98m portico over 'poor' work **
English Heritage has ordered the British Museum to tear down parts of its
spectacular £98 million lottery-funded redevelopment of its Bloomsbury site
because of shoddy workmanship and the use of poor quality stone

** Wake up and smell the flowers **
Victorians liked the natural world dead in a glass case. But did they have a
sense of wonder that we lack? .


** WEBSITE OF THE WEEK **
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston     Masterpieces from the John A. and Audrey
Jones Beck Collection


** EXECUTIVE BOARD NAMES KOICHIRO MATSUURA OF JAPAN AS CANDIDATE FOR POST OF
UNESCO DIRECTOR-GENERAL

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