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...International Grassland and Rangeland CONGRESS in Inner Mongolia next summer. "'Preserving' is a touchy word. Preserving might mean locking [the grasslands] up," O'Rourke says. This land evolved with animals and people living on it, and keeping it healthy will mean resisting the urge to turn it into a museum...
...director of the Alutiiq Museum in Kodiak, Alaska, his goal is to return artifacts to their communities...
...it’s not too taxing on the mind, the snacks are overpriced, and it’s a perfect way to escape the heat of summer for 90 minutes of frigid air-conditioning. That’s right—I’m talking about the museum blockbuster, that particular brand of glitzy exhibit put up each June and July in the world’s most renowned museums. Long, snaking lines for admission to the latest art shows prove that the summer blockbuster phenomenon isn’t limited to the movie house. More people visited...
...July 1994 was so quick and wholesale, it has proved impossible to find all the dead or separate their remains. It is estimated that Rwanda lost 800,000 people in 100 days. Perhaps 2 million took part in the slaughter, this in a country of 8 million. The genocide museum in the capital Kigali concludes its description of 1994 with the words: "Rwanda was dead." As a Tutsi area, Nyamata was a crucible of the killing. It was where, in a series of practice massacres after 1990, that the Hutu militia, the Interahamwe, honed their calculations of the optimum rate...
...Outta Sight Boogie on down to the MFA for College Night where the pizza is cheap, the music is loud, and the art is priceless. Hit on artsy BU students and brush up on your Thurston Moore references before The Advocate comp. Thurs., Sept. 27 at 7 p.m. The Museum of Fine Arts, Avenue of the Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston. 2) Bless Your Bleedin’ Heart Harvard faces off against BC —pint to pint. Why should you give blood? Because you feel the need. The need to bleed. Besides the obvious altruistic motivations, studies...