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...capital, Port Vila. It was another stroke of luck that the cemetery was discovered at all. After a bulldozer collecting soil for a prawn farm in 2003 turned up some pottery, the driver thought one of the shards pretty and took it home, where he showed his new curio to a friend. Thankfully for anyone interested in learning when and how the South Pacific was first settled, that friend happened not only to be a field worker for Vanuatu's Cultural Centre, but a recent graduate of an archaeological training course. As soon as he saw the pottery, he knew...
...their success lies in re-creating a familiar environment in the new locale. To do that, some consultants take photos of bureau tops or draw diagrams of knickknacks in a curio cabinet. Every detail is considered crucial. "Even the magnets were in the same place on the fridge. We couldn't believe it," says Robin Rose, 45, of Chicago, who helped her in-laws, Don and Edith Rose of Clearwater, Fla., relocate last March. In the midst of the move, her mother-in-law was hospitalized for a stroke. "Mom was so worried she wouldn't be able to find...
...Aibo, Sony's toy robot dog, was a huge commercial hit. But it's a quadruped so, by today's standards, no great shakes. Meet Qrio (rhymes with curio), the company's new bipedal "personal agent." More of a corporate showpiece than an actual product (on the market it would fetch about as much as a BMW), Qrio can walk uphill, sing, dance, wave hello, wiggle its fingers and kick a ball with surprising grace. Two digital cameras, one behind each eye, help Qrio map a room for future reference and recognize up to 10 different faces. It can also...
...creativity with the help of young Austrian artists. Under-6s and their parents can explore undersea worlds in Zoomocean. Information: Museums Quarter, short walk from city center; www.mqw.at; www.kindermuseum.at. Children $6; adults $4 Beijing: Beijing Shadow Troupe Handcrafted 2-D leather puppets perform short plays to music among the curio sellers and cafés of Beijing's antiques district. After the show, buy a souvenir puppet and squeeze in a little shopping in the Liulichang Road pedestrian zone. Information: 29 Dong Liulichang Road, Xuanwu. $6. Puppets from $4. Reservations recommended; tel: (86-135) 6303 6667 Dubai: Wild Wadi...
...BEIJING: BEIJING SHADOW TROUPE Handcrafted 2-D leather puppets perform short plays to music among the curio sellers and caf?s of Beijing's antiques district. After the show, buy a souvenir puppet and squeeze in a little shopping in the Liulichang Road pedestrian zone. Information: 29 Dong Liulichang Road, Xuanwu. $6. Puppets from $4. Reservations recommended...