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...hard, if not impossible, for a bald man to be elected President these days. But we chrome domes have always suffered prejudice and discrimination. Even our Founding Fathers covered their bare heads with powdered wigs, undaunted by the British but cowed by hair loss. Today, however, remembering the noble bird the founders chose to represent our country, more of us refuse to wear rugs. Bald by nature or by our barbers, we proudly expose our shiny pates, revealing that a full head of hair is not what makes...
...Brooklyn Museum Here are a wealth of items based on indigenous art from the Americas, as well as the art of Japan, China and Ancient Egypt. Prices go from $15 for a silver-effect Peruvian bird pin - modeled on a motif found on a pre-Columbian tunic from Peru's central coast - to $2,500 for a one-of-a-kind Native American sterling silver and green turquoise necklace featuring a pendant called a naja, the Navajo word for crescent...
...Just Here For The Violence." Banksy specializes in a strange brand of self-promotion: he'll sell six-figure creations and then sermonize on the evils of consumerism. Such behavior doesn't seem to deter buyers. In April, the auction house Bonham's sold his Space and Bird, a spray-painting on steel, for almost $600,000, and recently a set of 10 of his works went for more than $1 million...
...could be tempered if the shooting is judged to have been accidental, but denying intent may prove difficult in this case. Hen harriers are distinctive looking - males are silver with black wing tips, and females are dark brown. "It would be very difficult to mistake them for a game bird," said John Clare, a spokesman for the RSPB...
...Clare added that while hen harriers don't generally breed in Norfolk, "this is a bird that is obviously very rare in England. We do not need them being shot." They are unusually reviled here, Clare said, because they eat grouse and other game birds, depleting the stock available for hunting. He blamed "systemic" illegal killing of the birds for their dwindling numbers, noting that England's habitat could support ten times as many hen harriers than currently exist...