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

**  14 years for doll heist
A French man has been given 14 years in jail for holding up a doll museum
with a pump-action shotgun

**  What's the truth about holidaying in Muslim countries right now?
The curator, a handsome old Bedouin who reminded me of Spike Milligan,
offers glasses of toothsome mint tea to dusty tourists

**  Museums turn on government
A group of leading curators and museum administrators is to launch a
scathing attack on government museum policy on Sunday.  CLICK FOR AUDIO

**  Te Papa's big staff rise and $8m loss
The Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa, has increased its permanent staff by 42
per cent in the space of a year, its annual report shows

**  Liberty Museum honors 31 heroes with disabilities
A groundbreaking, permanent exhibit at a new East Coast museum is turning
the spotlight on 31 heroes who just happen to have disabilities

**  Matteo Ricci's Precious Bequest to China
The curators of the Central Museum in Nanjing boarded the train with two
long wooden boxes.

**  Judge Says Transfer Indian Headwear
According to folklore, Geronimo wore the body-length headdress at the last
powwow of surviving Indian chiefs 94 years ago
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**  Italy to privatise Colosseum and Pompeii's ruins
The controversial project is the brainchild of Italy's culture minister who
has pledged to modernise the country's notoriously slack and bureaucratic
heritage industry

**  Vintage jewelry gives US women a way to display their patriotism
Perhaps not since World War II have American women been so willing to show
their colors

**  Mummies and dinosaurs and Medieval underwear
"Dinosaurs, Vikings and Mummies they're the three things that draw them in,"
he tells me with a little wince

**  Imelda's shoes taken off show
Imelda Marcos' famed shoe collection has been ditched from the museum it was
kept in

**  Handel museum prepares for opening
Handel lived at 25 Brook Street, London W1 from 1723 until his death in 1759

**  Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Egypt Doctor's Tomb
The discovery would help scholars gain new insights into ancient medical
techniques

**  A museum of rotating chiefs
Some in the Washington arts community think Mrs. Holladay looms too large at
the museum

**  Bluebird to race after restoration
She said it would be "ghastly" and "morbid" to leave her father's Bluebird
in its current state - a mangled rusty wreck
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**  Airline's demise throw doubt on future of proposed art gallery
The financial turmoil that helped to ground Canada 3000 has thrown doubt on
the future of a proposed art gallery in Calgary

**  This Week's Horoscopes
Cancer: (June 22-July 22)  It's not easy being a loving, giving, trusting
person in this world. On the other hand, it's no picnic working in
advertising, either

**  Defence officials object to nuclear reactor in art gallery
They fear putting the reactor, containing uranium, in a public space will
make it a terrorist target

**  Miros, Rodins Among Millions in Art Lost at WTC
Beyond a Calder sculpture and a Miro tapestry which once adorned the Trade
Center's plazas or lobbies, corporations also lost millions of dollars in
art

**  Statues of Ancient Indian Emperor Unearthed
The emperor is said to have ascended the throne after killing his brothers
and expanded his kingdom through a series of ruthless wars

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Hezzie Goes to War: World War I through the Eyes of a Mid-Missourian

**  Regeneration or Decline?

**  National School Gardening Symposium

**  New Universal Declaration On Cultural Diversity

**  Museums and the Web 2002
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**  RCA/V&A Conservation offers studentships

**  "Using Genealogy in the Classroom"

**  The Archaeology Of Space & Place In The Great Lakes Region

**  Recent Archeological Prospection Advances for Non-destructive
Investigations in the 21st Century

**  Larry J. Hackman Research Residency Program

**  Understanding Afghanistan, Afghanistan: Living in Fear:  What is it like
to live in Afghanistan?


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