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week's edition include:

**  Vintage Collector Cheated By Counterfeit Wines
The FBI is investigating whether inferior bottles of wine were passed off as 
rare vintages worth more £50,000 a bottle, including some portrayed as 
belonging to American founding father Thomas Jefferson's collection

**  Humans Caught Pubic Lice From Gorillas Three Million Years Ago
In collaboration with scientists who collected lice from primates in Ugandan 
wildlife sanctuaries, Reed and his colleagues extracted DNA from the 
parasites and used fossil data from humans and gorillas to estimate how long 
ago these two kinds of lice shared a common ancestor

**  Feds Seize F-14s From Museum
Federal agents seized four retired F-14 fighter jets that authorities said 
were improperly transferred from the Navy to two air museums

**  More Connery than Craig
Psychologists Rob Jenkins, from the University of Glasgow, and Richard 
Wiseman, from the University of Hertfordshire, created the image which was 
unveiled at a free event Science Museum's Dana Centre

**  Physicist's Nobel Prize stolen from UC museum
University of California-Berkeley police say that the coin-like 1939 Nobel 
Prize in physics was displayed with other artefacts from Lawrence's life and 
work in the sprawling E.O. Lawrence Memorial Room at the science museum

**  Iran's priceless antiquities lie in line of fire
In his quiet office at the British Museum in London, among portraits of dead 
explorers and 3000-year-old inscriptions, one of the greatest experts on the 
archaeology of the Middle East has a series of maps of Iranian nuclear 
installations spread out across his desk

**  Museum fire damage costs £100,000
A fire that swept through a museum in Cornwall has an caused an estimated 
£100,000 in damage
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**  Argentine team finds fossil of South America's oldest horse
A team of Argentine palaeontologists from a small museum on the outskirts of 
Buenos Aires found the fossilized remains of South America's oldest horse, 
which lived in the region some 500,000 years ago

**  Ladybugs cause evacuation at Los Angeles museum
A crowded surrealism exhibit in L-A got slightly more surreal after an 
unattended bag set off an evacuation

**  Spiky creature prowled ocean half billion years ago
Scientists say a spectacularly quirky creature with long, curved spines 
protruding from its armoured body prowled the ocean floor 500 million years 
ago near the dawn of complex life forms on Earth

**  How Vikings Might Have Navigated on Cloudy Days
A team sailed the Arctic Ocean aboard the Swedish icebreaker Oden and found 
that sunstones could indeed light the way in foggy and cloudy conditions

**  Stolen art found in Spielberg collection
The FBI in Los Angeles recovered a Norman Rockwell painting - stolen more 
than 30 years ago - from the collection of movie director Stephen Spielberg

**  Is it Blackbeard's ship? Archaeological booty says aye
A shipwreck off the North Carolina coast believed to be that of notorious 
pirate Blackbeard could be fully excavated in three years more

**  Research Grant Blown Wooing Research Assistant
University of Montana wildlife biologist and Herbert R. Braithwaite 
Foundation research grant recipient Dr. James Neuthom has spent his entire 
$275,000 grant - intended for the study of whirling disease on rainbow 
trout - on such items as a 15-foot sailboat, scented stationery, and several 
dozen boxes of chocolate

**  Computer archive used to find stolen art
The request was simple enough, Lloyd's underwriters had been approached to 
insure the movement of seven paintings, including one by Cezanne, from 
Russia to London for valuation and sale
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**  Great cultural leap forward
The $126 million Shanghai museum is generally recognised as China's first 
world-class museum in terms of standards of display and preservation, and is 
now regarded as something of a standard bearer for change

**  Spy Caused British Nuclear Fears
Stunned by the revelation that a British scientist was passing American 
nuclear secrets to the Soviets immediately after World War II, diplomats 
feared the scandal could result in Britain's exclusion from U.S. atomic 
weapons programs

**  Pirates who got away with it by sailing closer to the wind
Barbary pirates raided villages along the Devon and Cornwall coast, setting 
up a base on Lundy Island

**  Italian cultural world feuds over loan of Leonardo painting to Tokyo 
museum
The government may be wobbling, the economy sputtering, but there's nothing 
like a good art feud to get Italians really riled up

**  The International Child Art Foundation will host the World Children's 
Festival

**  Contemporary Botanical Art

**  Museum Education Roundtable Reception at AAM

**  Open Source History: Making History Public

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