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...first highlights were a living tableau of village handicrafts, combined with an exhibition of high-grade Indian painting and sculpture, at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington and a fair on Washington's mall. By the end, the festival will have involved some 500 events in 90 cities in 36 states and ranged from displays of sculpture in Cleveland and calligraphy in Iowa City, Iowa, to a demonstration of ancient and modern Indian science in Charlotte, N.C. Some events touch directly on politics: California State University at Long Beach will hold a seminar on the centenary...
...addition, "bone responds to what we do," says Anthropologist Stephanie Damadio of the Smithsonian Institution. A clarinetist's jaw will sometimes suggest his profession or a waitress's developed arm strength may be evident in the bone...
Increasingly, the attention is favorable. "The Magic of Neon," a photographic exhibit mounted by the Smithsonian Institution, has been touring the country for 21 months, and a book with the same title by the show's curator, Design Writer Michael Webb, has gone to a second printing. At the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, after a boardroom battle over its appropriateness, a pink neon street sign was installed in place of the museum's Plexiglas one. "After all," says Board President Helyn Goldenberg, "we are a contemporary institution...
...astronomers observed Sgr A* with six giant dish-shaped radio telescopes, one each in Massachusetts, West Virginia and Texas, and three in California. "In effect, the configuration of the telescopes gave us a 'lens' 3,000 miles in diameter," explains Astronomer Mark Reid of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass...
...taken care of that summer internship interview with your Congressman, climbed the Washington Monument and gawked at the Hope Diamond at the Smithsonian. s Since you're bound to end up on The Mall between the Capital and Lincoln's scowling marble face; why not step into the least-frequented building there; the National Boitanical Gardens...