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ISSUE: November 1, 2009

Articles about Smithsonian

Growing Up In Washington, D.c., With Gilmore Girls Star Lauren Graham - 3-1-2006

Growing up in Washington, D.C., with her single father and a love for museums, monuments, and model trains, Gilmore Girls star Lauren Graham was a nerdy tomboy. she's changed a lot since then. Or has she?

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...So she stared in awe at the iceman mummy in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and watched,...

...awestruck, as the Foucault pendulum at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History shifted...

...National Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. And her favorite...

Offbeat - 10-15-2003

SMITHSONIAN OF SONGWRITING Want to own a piece of music history? MANUSCRIPT ORIGINALS, founded by singer Graham Nash of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, sells limited editions of song lyrics handwritten, illustrated, and s...

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...Jackson says. “We want to be the Smithsonian of songwriting.”...

On Display Now - 6-1-2006

New York The ancient Maya are back in vogue. Mel Gibsons latest movie, Apocalypto, focuses on this mysterious civilization, and, starting June 13, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will present Treasures of Sacred Maya Kings. Objects on dis...

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...of the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum on July 1, since both...

...American Art Museum on July 1, since both Smithsonian institutions are housed in the same historic...

See It - 8-15-2003

DESIGNER GENES If you don’t know your alleles from your enzymes or your RNA from your DNA, you’ll want to check out “GENOME: The Secret of How Life Works” at the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION in Washington, D.C. The new exhibit takes an ...

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...DNA double-helix structure, is on view at the Smithsonian through January 4, and then travels to major...

School Daze - 9-1-2002

Education is great and all, but too much of a good thing is still too much. Count ’em. One hundred ninety-eight. You can bet we counted ’em. I say “we.” I mean Sam. Sam is our 12-year-old son. He ...

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... D.C. How could he not? He went on field trips to Smithsonian museums, the Six Flags amusement park, and to a...

Unoriginal Content - 5-15-2009

As evidenced by this year’s crop of summer blockbusters, sequels are big business in Hollywood despite their typically lukewarm reviews. Are industry executives giving audiences what they want, or are they just engaging in lazy filmmaking?

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... this month''s Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian , says that in this second installment, he...

Roswell, New Mexico: The Truth Is Still Out There. - 7-1-2009

Until the 1990s, the only tourists who stopped in Roswell, New Mexico, were either lost or asking for directions to Carlsbad. That’s no longer the case. Today, everyone knows Roswell as the Alien Capital of the World. Each July, this town of 50,000 celebrates its annual UFO Festival, to which thousands make the pilgrimage to hear notable ufologists argue about aliens and government subterfuge alongside a circus atmosphere of parades, concerts, and pet dogs dressed as E.T.

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...bows and arrows that they used back then. The Smithsonian wanted those, and Rogers turned them down,”...

The New-and-Improved Old Glory - 7-1-2009

What has it taken to bring back the majesty of the Star- Spangled Banner? Eight years, 19 conservators, and a whole lot of patience. But the result is a powerful reminder of our nation’s fight for independence.

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...student in 1978 after hearing a lecture from a Smithsonian conservator. She knows the work she’s done means...

Never Can Say Goodbye - 1-1-2002

Actually, it turns out, I can. And am. Boohoo, and hot diggity. I’m singing to my enchiladas. Not loud or anything. The guy at the next table can probably barely hear me. With the melted yellow cheese from its two rolled tortillas bubbl...

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...And Cambodian. And there’s the Smithsonian. And the Mall. I think I’m going to start...

Rolling Through Alaska - 2-1-2001

Touring the Great North by RV gives you a wilderness experience with all the comforts of home. It took me more than 25 years to get to this spot. I’ve been looking forward to the day I would stand and gaze across this Great Northern wil...

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...whose work can be seen in magazines such as Smithsonian, international wildlife, and the nature...

Steve Case's Promised Land - 3-15-2004

The AOL founder returns to his Hawaiian homeland to deliver economic revival and a great golf game or two.

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...hangs in the national portrait gallery in the Smithsonian....

Go With The Flow - 7-15-2004

From Peles molten-hot homeland, witness the awe-inspiring life of lava on the Big Island of Hawaii.

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...of choice via the activity reports at the Smithsonian institution''s global volcanism program, . ...

Placing Product - 6-1-2005

Have you heard all the hoo-ha over product placement in magazine stories? Your journalism professors, your public-radio pontificators, your media know-it-alls (please excuse the lapse into industry jargon), all of them are blowing hard about the cor...

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...an article in the history and science magazine Smithsonian, called, say, “Contemplating...

...an article in the history and science magazine Smithsonian, called, say, “Contemplating...

Wait Watchers - 12-15-2005

WAIT WATCHER True road warriors know that a long layover at the airport doesn't have to be a one-way ticket to boredom.

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...have to leave the airport terminal to get your Smithsonian fix. The National Air and Space Museum now has a...

Our Daily Read - 1-1-2006

Information overload getting you down? These readers learned to control the flow and dumped the pileup guilt.

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...journals - from the jazz magazine Down Beat to Smithsonian to ABA Journal - at least two daily...

...journals - from the jazz magazine Down Beat to Smithsonian to ABA Journal - at least two daily...

It Takes A Village - 1-15-2006

Freedomland isn't merely the title of Julianne Moores new movie. It also describes how this former Army brat feels about the home she (finally) discovered in Manhattan two decades ago.

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... the museum of modern art , (212) 708-9400, Smithsonian cooper-hewitt, national design museum , (212)...

See It - 2-15-2001

PAINTED FACES 250 YEARS OF PORTRAITURE GOES ON TOUR Stare at 75 famous American faces in A Brush with History at the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh through April 8. While the Smithsonian’s National Portr...

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... of History in Raleigh through April 8. While the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in...

(copy)right And Wrong - 6-15-2006

Digitizing books and making them available online to everybody is a good thing. Or is it? Say you write a book. Say someone illicitly obtains a digitized copy and posts it on the Internet. Thousands of people download your book — for fr...

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...Foundation, MSN, and institutions such as the Smithsonian Institution Libraries and the University of...

Art And The Sunshine State - 11-1-2008

Four new museum projects designed by star architect and international museum expert Yann Weymouth are giving us four more reasons to head to the Sunshine State.

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... works. Though it’s affiliated with the Smithsonian and considered a key cultural hot spot, the...

Attack of the Guerrilla Gardeners - 3-15-2009

They live among us, carrying on with their daily lives as if nothing out of the ordinary were going on. But actually something extraordinary is going on.

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... MILLAR has contributed to publications such as Smithsonian , Sierra , and National...