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Those Struggling Du Ponts, Queen Mary Settles Suit, U.S. Spy Plane to French Museum, eBay 'Masterpiece', Earliest Coins



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THIS WEEK'S NEWS HEADLINES INCLUDE:

**  Negotiating Gene Science Ethics
A complete human genome map not only promises to improve public health, but also to raise myriad public concerns


**  Seattle, home to Hendrix and grunge, gets music shrine
Shouting, ``Let the experience begin!'' and smashing a glass guitar in the style of his idol, rock guitar god Jimi Hendrix, the billionaire Allen opened the Experience Music Project

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**  Cuba Sends Scraps of U.S. Spy Plane to French Museum          
A French museum on Thursday displayed pieces of a U.S. U2 spy plane shot down over Cuba at the height of the 1962 missile crisis


**  Museum, American Indians Agree to Share Meteorite
Under the agreement ending an ownership dispute, the 15.5-ton Willamette Meteorite will remain in the New York museum, where the metallic rock is the centerpiece of the museum's new space center


**  Experts Lining Up Against eBay 'Masterpiece'
Art experts are lining up against the modern art ``masterpiece'' that made world headlines last month when it was sold over the online auction service of eBay Inc


**  "The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition" In August 1914 Ernest Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven sailors and scientists left Britain for the Antarctic on the Endurance, planning to cross the Antarctic on foot


**  Scientists Identify the Earliest Coins                                                                     
The first coins, minted more than 2,600 years ago in what is today Turkey, represented a state-sanctioned racket


**  Digital Noah's Ark for the world's lost and endangered species to be set up in Britain
A 21st century version of Noah's Ark, which will collect pictures and sounds of all the threatened animals and plants in the world and preserve them in one place for future generations


**  New attitude to archaeology was not built in a day
On Monday, 3,000 people flocked to the 35-hectare site of the Villa Quintili on the old Appian Way, the remains of one of the biggest constructions of ancient Rome


**  Workshop on conservation of antique textiles
A first-ever workshop on the conservation of antique textiles is being arranged by the Lahore Museum in collaboration with the Albert Victor Museum, London


**  Magnificence of ancient Rome is restored in time for Jubilee
The hammering, plastering, and painting is nearly finished, and the ugly metal scaffolding that clothed hundreds of buildings here - like a hackneyed Christo installation - has mostly been carted away.


**  Exhibit looks at du Pont struggles
People often view the du Pont family story as one of privilege and success

**  History of Postal Communications on Exhibit at Canadian Museum
Nine themes recall the most significant stages and aspects of the development of the postal system in Canada and around the world


**  Queen Mary Settles Suit by Latin American Museum
A foundation that runs the Queen Mary settled a lawsuit Tuesday with the Museum of Latin American Art, which alleged that the operators of the ocean liner owed the museum at least $1 million


**  Queen should quit Buckingham Palace                                                                                                     
Ms Mowlam accused the royals of being out of touch. She suggested they should move out of their palaces which could be turned into museums


**  Web site of the Week - a Special House Museum
The home is a National Historic Landmark, a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places


**  This Week's Horoscopes!
You know, Virgo has to admit it--you're just such a nutty wack-meister that the stars have no gosh-darned idea what you're going to do next!
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**  Sculpture festival turning New York into a cow town              
New York City is not usually known as a cow town. But this summer, a veritable herd of fiberglass Holsteins has taken over the city


**  Oops, She Did It Again!
Britney Spears, museum piece? A museum devoted to the 18-year-old pop star is opening in her hometown of Kentwood, La
 


**  Ancient Roman City Going Underwater
Archaeologists who have rescued precious mosaics and other artifacts from two Roman villas were hoping to excavate more


**  Visitor Studies Association Conference 
 
**  Back of House
16 & 17 July 2000
Goulburn Regional Focus Workshops - Australia


**  AVICOM  - AUDIOVISUEL ET NOUVELLES TECHNOLOGIES


**  WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE
Good Decision Making When Recovering Water-Damaged Paper Collections


**  TravelNow.com Plans Worldwide Expansion Into Europe and Asia


**  Grace Morley Research Fellowship for ICOM 2001 to be awarded by ICOM India Trust
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