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week's edition include:
** Clinton joins foes of museum at WTC site
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has announced her opposition to the
International Freedom Centre, joining a growing list of critics who fear
that the planned museum would distract from the solemnity of Ground Zero
** Works by Dutch master Rembrandt discovered in Amsterdam
According to reports, the four oil painting studies were found during the
preparations for a new exhibition at museum"Het Rembrandthuis"
** Hurricanes a 'call to arms'
We must take the build-up of greenhouse gases very seriously," says Dr
Flannery, the director of the South Australian Museum
** New 'Hobbit' disease link claim
The researchers say their findings strongly support an idea that the 1m-
(3ft-) tall female skeleton from Indonesia is a diseased modern human
** Virginia museum to return Nazi-plundered art to Poland
It surfaced in 1948 in New York at Newhouse Galleries, which listed it as
being from "an important European collection."
** New museum about much more than catching fish
A 15th-century manual, attributed to Juliana Berners, is thought to be the
first attempt to elevate fishing to the level of falconry and hunting
** Puppet show scales new heights in a tribute to prehistoric times
Dinosaurs, giant dragonflies and a prehistoric garden come to life at the
National Museum of Australia in a premiere production exploring the natural
forces that shaped the Australian continent
** Smuggling Probe Finds Peruvian Artefacts
More than 300 ancient Peruvian artefacts, including a 3,500-year-old clay
pot and a burial shroud used by royalty, have been recovered in south
Florida as part of a smuggling investigation
** Museum celebrates history of balloons
The Anderson-Abruzzo International Balloon Museum is scheduled to open Oct.
1, coinciding with the Albuquerque's annual Balloon Fiesta, which starts the
day before and draws people from around the world
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** Mary Rose fragments to be raised
Sections of the bow and anchor of the Tudor warship Mary Rose are to be
raised to the surface next month
** Greek Archaeological Collapse Kills One
A large metal shelter collapsed at one of Greece's most important
archaeological sites on the resort island of Santorini on Friday, killing
one person and injuring at least six
** Tate Britain Museum Pulls Artwork
The Tate Britain museum has removed a work made up of sacred texts from
Christianity, Judaism and Islam torn and mounted on glass to avoid offending
religious sensibilities following the July transit bombings in London
** Japan blind to a dark past
It was a fanciful, grotesque distortion of history that has been abandoned
by the curators of the new museum built adjacent to the notorious Yasukuni
shrine, where the souls of Japan's war dead - including a number of category
A war criminals - are brazenly commemorated
** This Week's Horoscopes
Sagittarius, November 22 - December 21: Venus, the harbinger of love, will
enter your sign this week. Unfortunately, so will busload after busload of
obnoxious, sightseeing tourists, which kind of ruins the mood
** Japanese Explorer Finds Evidence Of 'Robinson Crusoe's' Island Home
On a remote, wooded island 470 miles off the coast of Chile, Japanese
explorer Daisuke Takahashi believes he has found the location of the hut
where Scottish privateer Alexander Selkirk, who likely inspired the Daniel
Defoe classic "Robinson Crusoe," lived during the four years and four months
he was marooned on the island 300 years ago
** Museum investigation: Public deserves to hear contents of costly,
overdue report
Supporters and opponents of Stacey McLaughlin have been showing up at county
commissioners' meeting since the director was ordered to pull the Greek
goddess Hebe out of a museum exhibit on outstanding women in late January
** No. 2 Children's Palace opens in Guangzhou
The children's museum, said to be the first in China, is located on the
first and second floors of the northern tower
** On Nantucket, a whale of a museum
At the new Nantucket Whaling Museum, which opened this summer, the wow
moment comes when you turn the corner from the entrance lobby and enter the
main gallery
** 'Better' DNA out of fossil bones
Scientists in Israel have just developed a new technique to retrieve better
quality, less contaminated DNA from very old remains, including human bones
** New Orleans Museum, Under Lock and Guard
It is a jarring sight: Two burly men carrying M-16 assault rifles on the
marble steps of the New Orleans Museum of Art.
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** How's The Weather? Timely Displays Explore Extreme Weather and Its
Effects
** Kimono - A Japanese Story
** Preserving the Digital Heritage: Principles and Policies
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