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week's edition include:

**  Vintage bomber takes off by mistake at air show
A 70-year-old former RAF pilot yesterday relived the stomach-wrenching 
moment when a vintage bomber he was manoeuvring at an airshow accidentally 
took off because his co-pilot hit the throttle

**  Museum scours world for new 9/11 videos
The new views of the terrorist attacks - one of the most recorded events of 
all time - are among hundreds of hours of amateur videos, images and stories 
gathered by the foundation building the memorial

**  A skull that rewrites the history of man
The conventional view of human evolution and how early man colonised the 
world has been thrown into doubt by a series of stunning paleontological 
discoveries suggesting that Africa was not the sole cradle of humankind

**  Holocaust survivor can sue for painting
An elderly Holocaust survivor from San Diego can continue his legal battle 
against a Spanish museum to reclaim a valuable painting he says was taken 
from his grandmother by the Nazis
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**  Appeal to restore world's oldest function calculator
The Harwell system, later known as the WITCH computer, was created in 1949 
in an attempt to wipe out mistakes being made by a team of young graduates 
bored with using electronic calculators

**  Dreaded diseases
In the 19th century the arrival of migrants in the UK brought the danger of 
contagious diseases; a ship's master was required by Customs officers to 
swear on the Bible as to the condition of his ship

**   The museum removal men
It is a furniture-moving nightmare which throws the travails of transporting 
Great Auntie Doris's grand piano into stark perspective

**  Hundreds of new species could be discovered in Natural History Museum 
Collection
Hundreds of species of insects which had been lost to science were 
rediscovered in the Natural History Museum as staff prepared for the grand 
opening of its new Darwin Centre

**  Jacko and Bubbles, Live Rabbits Signal New Era at Berlin Museum
Yet the museum attracted just 250,000 visitors in 2007, a fraction of the 
5.2 million pulled in by its London rival, the Tate Modern

**  New musical-instrument museum to open in April
When it is ready, the museum will be home to as many as 10,000 musical 
instruments from around the world
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**  New science centre opens in London: Centre of the Cell
All of the scientific content in Centre of the Cell is based on the cutting 
edge medical research conducted at Barts and the London School of Medicine 
and Dentistry

**  Damien Hirst in vicious feud with teenage artist over a box of pencils
And that wasn't all - he was arrested, released on bail, and is waiting to 
find out if he will be formally charged with causing damage to an iconic 
artwork worth £10m

**  Extreme art stunts which went wrong
Russian performance artist Oleg Kulik frequently appears in public places 
dressed in his birthday suit standing on all fours, and behaving like a 
violent dog; but he once excelled himself by visiting a farm and inserting 
his head in a cow's rear

**  Artefacts uncovered during roadworks give fresh perspective on early 
Irish life
The remains of a 9,000-year-old fishing basket uncovered at Clowanstown in 
Co Meath, a monastic bell-making facility at Clonfad in Co Westmeath and an 
"exceptional" raised wooden trackway close to the Dromod-Roosky bypass, have 
been described at an archaeology seminar

**  Picasso Ponzi
It's one that involves high-priced paintings, many of them fake, and 
accusations of deception that include using the name of the world's greatest 
golfer, Tiger Woods, as a lure

**  This Week's Horoscopes
Sagittarius Nov 22 to Dec 21. A crazy person will try to convince you that 
the stars are vast, distant balls of gaseous matter. Ignore him

**  An Old Spanish Master Emerges From Grime
For years the Metropolitan Museum of Art displayed the painting of a 
moustached man in his mid-30s on the same wall as famous portraits of Juan 
de Pareja and Maria Teresa, infanta of Spain by the 17th-century Spanish 
master Velázquez
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**  Humans may have reached Europe far earlier
Geologists at a Berkeley research centre have muddied the already murky 
waters of human evolution by showing that our early human ancestors and 
their stone tools must have reached Western Europe from Africa a full 
half-million years earlier than anthropologists have thought

**  From The Blogs - What it's like to be a part of Team Julia
Interns Kristen Chasse and Jillian Brems spent the summer as part of "Team 
Julia," a group of people responsible for the exhibition, Bon Appétit! Julia 
Child's Kitchen at the Smithsonian

**  After first year, Smithsonian chief has big ideas
Wayne Clough pulls a thumb-sized computer flash drive from his pocket and 
marvels at how many of the Smithsonian Institution's millions of objects can 
be captured on it

**  African American Dolls - The Stories They Tell
The exhibition showcases more than 500 dolls - about a third of the National 
Afro-American Museum and Cultural Centre's collection

**  Matisse 1917 - 1941
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza

**  Musical Heritage of China Celebrated
Musical Heritage of China Celebrated in Metropolitan Museum Exhibition 

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