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...years. "We're trying to bring the collection down to manageable proportions," he explains. "This has forced us to look in every corner. There are some things we had just forgotten that we had." It is a situation that most museums face. "Too many of them wanted to be mini-Mets," says Jay Cantor, Christie's director of museum services, referring to New York City's vast Metropolitan Museum of Art. "They took in everything they could get. Now they're being forced to rethink their missions...
...room is a baby room," Ghalib says. "It's got this little mini desk and little building blocks. It's much nicer than my room was before...
...audience erupted into whistles, cheers and catcalls, Joshua Oppenheimer '96-'97 rose from his seat in the center of the auditorium. Oppenheimer, who wore a black mini-dress with boa trim, a broad-rimmed hat and cats-eye rhinestone sunglasses, began to blow a whistle and shout above the pandemonium...
...entire team would be run by NATO, not the U.N. Under the plan, the Bosnian Croats and Bosnian Serbs could form respective federations with Croatia and Serbia. The economic embargo against Serbia would be lifted in exchange for its recognition of Bosnia's qualified sovereignty. And finally, a mini-Marshall Plan would be set up to pump billions of dollars' worth of economic aid into the region...
While academics think of the vents as fascinating natural chemistry labs, capitalists view them as mini-refineries, bringing valuable metals up from the planet's interior and concentrating them in convenient locations. Oceanographers have long known that parts of the Pacific sea floor at depths between 14,000 ft. and 17,000 ft. are carpeted with so-called manganese nodules, potato-size chunks of manganese mixed with iron, nickel, cobalt and other useful metals. In the 1970s, Howard Hughes used the search for nodules as a cover for building the ship Glomar Explorer, which was used to salvage a sunken...