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

**  Smithsonian Fires 45 Employees
Tourism losses following the September eleventh terrorist attacks are being
blamed for the job cuts, including a steep drop in restaurant and souvenir
sales

**  Top museum under fire for not attracting enough visitors
One of Britain's top museums, the V&A, has been criticised for failing to
attract enough domestic visitors or a broad enough audience

**  Suit filed to stop de Young project
S.F. citizens group opposes design of new museum in Golden Gate Park

**  Black businesses are expecting big things from the Clinton presidential
library
Black art galleries and African clothing boutiques are opening near the
future site of Bill Clinton's presidential library

**  `Flying museum' bombers go on display at 3 S. Florida airports
The four-engine, heavy bombers make an annual trek to South Florida and draw
hundreds of aviation, history and military buffs

**  Van Gogh? Matisse? Not in My Back Yard
A collection of works of art by some of the 19th and 20th centuries'
greatest masters is struggling to find a new home in Greece

**  Discovery strengthens dinosaurs' link to birds
A saw-toothed, meat-eating dinosaur with sickle-shaped claws on its feet and
arms has been discovered in China
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**  Ford donates $2 million to Arab-American center
The museum will be located on Michigan Avenue across from the Dearborn City
Hall

**  This week's feature site
Housed in Palazzo Bagatti Valsecchi, in the heart of Milan, this is one of
the finest museum-homes in Europe

**  Bluegrass pioneers invited to museum's opening gala
More than 200 pioneers of bluegrass music - those who performed between 1940
and 1954 - are being invited to participate in the grand opening

**  Original Darwin Specimens on Display
London's Natural History Museum displayed a prize selection of pickled
lizards, fish, an eel and a rodent for journalists to view

**  Blazing row over meteorite
Three stories later, Mr. Elliott had his meteorite and a lady from
Leighlinbridge who wished to remain anonymous, had her reward

**  Exhibit displays layers of Victorian-era fashion
The research is done, the labels are written and the clothes are coming out
of their acid-free tissue-paper cocoons

**  Museum created in replica of Ho Chi Minh house
A replica of a Thai house where the late Vietnamese freedom fighter Ho Chi
Minh took refuge is being opened as a museum

**  A Life In Dust Jackets
Now, in this raw, unflinching memoir, she shares the pain and desperation of
her unquenchable thirst for seasonal allergy relief
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**  Put on the Dog For Year of the Horse
The narrow streets of Chinatown are beginning to emerge from the city's day
of infamy

**  We've come for the Kellys
Australia's National Gallery rarely lets its Ned Kelly paintings out of the
country, so the Prime Minister tried a brazen ploy

**  Sacred Meteorite Offered to Tribe
Wheeler, an Oregon chiropractor, paid $3,375 for the thumbnail-sized piece
of the colossal meteorite and is donating it to the tribe

**  Museum unveils design but not donors
There is, though, no standard way for a museum to make a significant
announcement

**  Scientists discover chameleons surfed world on driftwood
New research suggests chameleons colonised the globe by surfing across the
seas

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**  Reserve your place in history! Attend the Crockett Symposium

**  13th Annual Workshops in Archaeometry

**  Fall 2002 Joint MARAC/NEA Meeting, Poughkeepsie, NY

**  Being Creative - Free Association in Psychoanalysis and the Arts

**  30th Annual ALI-ABA Course of Study  "Legal Problems of Museum
Administration"

**  Information, Intelligence & the War Against Terrorism.

**  New England Museum Association's Annual Conference  "Education,
Enterprise & Economics: The Value of Museums"

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