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...used to the idea. An exhibition of 420 Incan artifacts--354 of them from Machu Picchu--curated by Burger and Salazar, opened last month at Yale's Peabody Museum, where it will remain until May 4. Then it begins a two-year tour of Los Angeles; Pittsburgh, Pa.; Denver; Houston; and Chicago. The exhibit makes for riveting history--even if it's not Indiana Jones. --Reported by Andrea Dorfman/New York
...Germany and France: don't wait until you get hit by a chemical warhead from Saddam or al-Qaeda to finally understand the threat. The U.S. and its allies should disarm Iraq now. Since when do terrorists take the trouble to warn us about their attacks? GLEN G. OCANA Denver...
These days, Libeskind has commissions that include major additions to museums in London, Toronto, San Francisco and Denver; a university media center in Hong Kong; and a shopping and housing complex in Switzerland. That Denver, let alone the staid, pragmatic Beijing government that rules Hong Kong, is welcoming some of the most radical design ideas in the world is another sign of how much change is in the air. Libeskind is happy but not surprised. "People want to see something that reflects the excitement of life," he says. "If you look at how much is happening in the sciences...
...Daniel Raymond McClintock is a 25-year-old pro basketball player out of Golden West High in Visalia, California, and the University of Northern Arizona, a former Denver Nugget who lasted only six games in the NBA. He has been hired this season by the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) to do nothing less than replace the irreplaceable Yao Ming at center. That makes McClintock the man in the middle of the biggest sports story in the most populated place on earth...
...Unlike Yao, the No. 1 pick in last June's NBA draft, McClintock wasn't a first-rounder. The Nuggets chose him in the second round in 2000, 53rd overall. They dumped him on Oct. 30 of that year, and he played for the Kansas City Knights before Denver signed him again the following April. "My first start?against the Lakers at the Staples Center, when I was guarding Shaq?it kind of hit me that I had made it to the top of the pyramid," says McClintock, who in 22 minutes had NBA career highs of eight points...