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...prosecution's case, should it ever reach trial, will inevitably conjure up the carnage that took place at New York City's Audubon Ballroom 30 years ago next month, as Malcolm X, former con man and thief who had joined the Nation of Islam (NOI) while in prison and become the foremost spokesman of its fiercely proud and racist party line, played out his final political incarnation. After revealing that his mentor, Elijah Muhammad, had fathered several illegitimate children, Malcolm had split with the Nation. He had founded a splinter group, traveled to Mecca, adopted a more tolerant political philosophy...
Conservation groups trumpeted the eagle's comeback as a triumph for the Endangered Species Act of 1973, but the motives behind their enthusiastic press releases were partly political. Observes Jim Pissot, Washington State director of the National Audubon Society: "The Act itself is now endangered." Indeed, the law is currently up for reauthorization in Congress, and property owners and developers are working hard to have it weakened. The law is unfair to their business interests, they say. Besides, they insist, the eagle's comeback has much more to do with the 1972 banning of DDT, which weakened the shells...
Through April 10. John James Audubon: The Watercolors for the Birds of America. 90 rarely seen watercolors by Audobon which for the first time will be the focus of a major travleing exhibition...
Through April 10. John James Audubon: The Watercolors for the Birds of America. 90 rarely seen watercolors by the focus of a major traveling exhibition...
Through April 10. John James Audubon: The Watercolors for the Bridge of America...