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What lies on the other side of the bridge? For pessimists the new millennium is time's equivalent of those stretches of pre-Columbian ocean on which European mapmakers wrote, "Here be monsters." Either/or: The imagination projects either apocalypse or high-tech wonders, either hell or heaven. Clinton, whose theology is politics, projects a nation going through the biggest changes since industrialization depopulated the farms 100 years ago. Once a balanced budget is in place, he thinks, the basic source of American political conflict in the past decade will have vanished. The country will be ready to search...
...sidenote, Weil added that American demand for cocaine has even managed to harm peoples like the ones he studied--Columbian cartels pressure farmers to grow the highly profitable cash crop...
...ranging from palm-size jade carvings to a 10-ton, monumental stone head. For the next four months, visitors will be able to see treasures that have never before been permitted to leave Mexico. "It's amazing," says one of the show's curators, Peter David Joralemon of Pre-Columbian Art Research Associates in New York City. "The only major Olmec objects left in Mexico are the ones that are too fragile to travel...
...Santa Barbara Museum of Art and the Minnesota Museum of American Art are both looking at the idea. Santa Barbara, with everything from dolls and toys to pre-Columbian artifacts in its collection, has grown for 50 years without a major vetting. "Museums can no longer survive without weeding out," says its curator, Robert Henning. Explains Jay Gates, director of the Dallas Museum of Art: "Acquisition dollars are harder to come by, and art prices remain high. It's one thing to be given the endowment dollars, but it's another to have to go get them. [Deaccessioning...
...nine: Belize, the Dominican Republic, Gambia, Ghana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Uruguay and Zaire. In addition, airlines from Bolivia, El Salvador, Guatemala and Netherlands Antilles are on the FAA's watch list. The crackdown on foreign air carriers is a result of the 1990 crash in New York of a Columbian Avianca airliner that had run out of fuel...