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Historical-museum curators can be a contentious bunch--get between two of them debating whether the Smithsonian exhibit of First Ladies' ball gowns is real history, and you may want to John Wilkes Booth one or both of them. But nearly all curators will agree that they are battling a common enemy: public indifference. If you're in the history business, you're competing for shrinking wallets and tighter leisure time. Schools teach less history, so kids have less of an idea about what happened at your venue or why it matters. And those same kids have perhaps more veto...
...80th floor that morning. We heard a loud explosion when the first tower was hit. A bunch of us were at the window trying to see what had happened when one of the managing directors came and yelled at us to get out. We took the stairs down. We tried to talk a little bit, even to strangers, to keep everybody from panicking. Some women had left high heels on the platforms between flights, and there were coffee cups under the railings. But we were going down at a good clip. I was already at the 46th floor when they...
...landfill that stands out in my mind the most. We would take a rake and sift through rubble. I remember finding a woman's hand and forearm, and a partial rib cage. I found lots of hair and scalp. Can anyone imagine they would ever have to rake a bunch of rubble in search for human remains? I wish I never had to do that. That's the one memory I can do without...
...Only a few blocks away from where Bush would be speaking Thursday to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Anderson led a rally that wasn't subtle at all in its critiques. Nor was it filled with a bunch of young radicals; some of those in attendance were actually veterans themselves. "Blind faith in bad leaders is not patriotism," Anderson told the crowd. "A patriot does not tell people to refrain from speaking out in the name of politeness or for the sake of being a good host; or to show slavish, blind obedience and deference to a dishonest, war-mongering...
...graffiti. Drawing on Powderly's background in military robotics and Roth's expertise in architecture, they have invented new ways to leave their mark on the city without defacing it. Their latest development is called the "throwie"--a cluster of LEDs attached to a battery and small magnet. A bunch of throwies can be tossed at any iron surface to create instant graffiti. Alternatively, a tag can be spelled out in advance on a T-shaped "night writer" and slapped onto metal surfaces at improbable heights...