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The international headlines (FOR THE FULL STORY VISIT THE WEBZINE at this
address  http://www.globalmuseum.org and click on the NEWS button) in this
week's edition include:

**  Toxic dust found on Children's Museum computers
Researchers collected samples of dust from dozens of computers in eight
states, including university computer labs and an interactive computer
display at a children's museum in Maine

**  Making a Charlie of famed checkpoint
Directors of the museum said the wrapping of the guardhouse at the former
frontier  was aimed at spoiling the backdrop for drama students

**  Magic makers angry as Houdini spell is broken
A sign inside the exhibition at the Outagamie Museum in Appleton, Wisconsin,
warns visitors: "The 'backstage' area shows some of the secrets to Houdini's
tricks

**  Is this a photograph of Vincent van Gogh?
With a fixed stare and pale skin, the neatly suited man with the bristling
beard glares out of the nineteenth century photograph

**  Taxidermists design exhibit for Olympics
By the time summer arrives, at least one American black bear, grey squirrel,
chipmunk, skunk and rabbit will be in view on Crete

**  Anti-terrorism agents investigate New York state artist
Agents from the Joint Terrorism Task Force cordoned off and searched Kurtz's
house after police who been called to his home to investigate his wife's
death became alarmed when they found biological materials
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**  A Kubrick mystery is solved
Kubrick seems to have saved almost everything from his half-century career,
stuffing 10 rooms of his rambling estate north of London with thousands of
artefacts: scripts, letters, drawings, photographs, costumes, props, scale
models and technical equipment.

**  Telecast takes viewers to Titanic's grave
"This is a Super Bowl with 14 live cameras," said Ballard, seeming almost as
excited by the technology as by the expedition's overriding purpose

**  Free entry to art treasures at risk
The National Galleries of Scotland has been warned that it may have to scrap
its free admissions policy, close a gallery, or cut its opening hours

**  Rich Chinese bid to buy back 'stolen' treasures
Driven by plenty of money and a patriotic rush to return treasures taken
away over the centuries, Chinese collectors are bidding in Hong Kong as well
as in New York and London

**  Jordan Urges End to Flow of Iraq Treasures
The looting of ancient Iraqi artefacts was the crime of the century, the
chief of Jordanian Customs said in a speech

**  Back to Borodino
Today, thousands of people travel to the battle site every year to combine a
scoop of fresh air with a history lesson

**  A shocking career
What others view as a tribute to her life's work, Westwood sees as a fresh
opportunity to draw attention to her name, her brand and her studied
eccentricity

**  Museum of Fine Arts lays off 23 staffers
Though museum officials declined to say exactly who had been let go, they
did say the layoffs had come from across the museum's divisions, including
its curatorial staff
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**  New Rock Discovered On Mars
"I think it's premature to declare a whole new category of rock,
particularly one named after a distasteful snack food," said retired
Professor of Geology, Milo M. Speeks

**  40 works by abstract artist added to list of losses in Momart blaze
Heath's daughter, Clio, from whose collection the works came, is plainly
bemused about the conditions in which the paintings were stored

**  Museum Brings Hollywood to Chicago
The replica Hollywood makeup set come alive as a video elapses a makeup
artist's three-hour transformation of a fresh-faced young actor into a
wrinkled, liver-spotted old man

**  Scotsman limps into limelight
Sir Richard Branson, who gave some of the £1.8m needed to buy the loco, said
the crowds ensured a "wonderful day".

**  Russian Ex-Capital May Sell Palaces to Save Them
Russia's former imperial capital has a plan to save architectural treasures
sinking into dilapidation: Sell them and make the new owners pay for their
upkeep

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**  Singapore's Creative Youth Xchange is a cross-disciplinary competition
for Asian youth

**  New York City Department of Parks & Recreation: Art & Antiquities

**  Australian post-war photodocumentary explores the diversity of approach
and definitions of the documentary in photography in Australia

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