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Free Online subscription. http://www.globalmuseum.org 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: ** Looted Iraqi artefacts 'returned' US customs agents working in Iraq say they have recovered thousands of items looted from the national museum in Baghdad following the fall of Saddam Hussein. ** Secrets of a Stone Age Rambo Scientists have discovered the truth about Otzi the Iceman: that he was the Stone Age equivalent of a hi-tech trooper kitted with complex weapons and survival gear. ** Baghdad Museum Lost 'Its Arms and Legs' " Doors were broken down and "every single scrap of paper, every negative, every computer disc, every file had been pulled off the shelves (and) ripped up." ** Smithsonian Museums Enhance Security The addition of walk-through metal detectors was completed in the past two weeks ** Russia's Hermitage Learns Western Ways to Survive He saw the collection nearly ruined when local authorities switched off the heating in the economic turmoil spawned by the collapse of communist rule ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________ Advertisement: ULTIMATE IMPOSSIBILITIES - Join professional stage magician and science lecturer Kevin Barnes in an astonishing presentation . 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