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...Raiders' Lost Ark is there, it should turn up soon. Wilcox and the Smithsonian's 266 other curators are giving "the nation's attic" its first good cleaning, a task that ranks as one of the most ambitious museum inventories ever undertaken. They expect to catalogue and computerize 78 million different items by the time the "Great Counting," as they call it, has been completed...
Congress agreed, and appropriated $2.4 million for an undertaking that the curators had always regarded as impossible, if not downright laughable. The nation's attic was as badly organized as the average homeowner's; junk and jewels had been piling up helter-skelter since 1846, when Congress founded the Smithsonian with a $500,000 bequest from James Smithson, an Englishman who left his estate to establish a national museum...
...insulation system enables heat to flow through all the rooms in a building instead of rising to the attic, he said. This results in a smaller amount of heat reaching pipes located in the attic, so B&G workers moved pipes more susceptible to the cold to more highly protected areas...
...Light in the Attic, Silverstein (1) 2. Cosmos, Sagan (2) 3. The Lord God Made Them All, Herriot (3) 4. Richard Simmons' Never-Say-Diet Book, Simmons (4) 5. A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney, Rooney (5) 6. The Walk West: A Walk Across America 2, Jenkins 7. Pathfinders, Sheehy (7) 8. Miss Piggy's Guide to Life, Piggy with Beard 9. Betty Crocker's Microwave Cookbook 10. Presidential Anecdotes, Boiler
...Light in the Attic, Silverstein...