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...them without a dig at their private life. A tally of how much they see each other (14 days a month on average since the beginning of 2005) merited front-page treatment by the New York Times. Even the unveiling in April of their official portraits at the Smithsonian--hers, a luminous profile, evoking the Italian Renaissance; his, a sporty pose you might have expected to see over the fireplace at Southfork--had the sharp-eyed tabloids noting that no wedding ring was visible...
...remember televisions with knobs and dials but--gasp!--no remote control, then you probably grew up in the '50s or '60s. If you intend to watch the news tonight on one of those models, call the Smithsonian: you're a dinosaur. For as young shoppers head to electronics stores to buy the new high-definition TVs (HDTVs), the over-50 crowd is falling in right behind them...
...Protection Society of India. "It's going to be one of the biggest conservation debacles the world has ever known." Globally, the tiger's future looks similarly bleak. A major study released last month by the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York, the World Wildlife Fund and Washington's Smithsonian National Zoological Park reports that tigers now occupy an area 41% smaller than a decade ago. The report warns that, over the next 20 years, tigers are poised to "disappear in many places, or shrink to the point of 'ecological extinction...
Soon after the Inauguration of his successor, William Howard Taft, on March 4, 1909, Roosevelt and his son Kermit sail to Africa, where they spend nearly a year shooting animals for the Smithsonian. In early 1912, T.R. announces his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination, but the party renominates Taft--even though Roosevelt won all but one primary and caucus. The new Progressive (Bull Moose) Party promptly adopts T.R. as its candidate. That October he is shot while campaigning in Milwaukee, Wis., but gives a 90-min. speech before seeing a doctor. Democrat Woodrow Wilson is elected...
...crafting for Denver International Airport fell as it was being transported, crushing him; in Hondo, New Mexico. The Chicano artist celebrated working life in energetic pieces like Man on Fire?based on the Aztec emperor Cuauhtemoc, executed by Spanish colonists for his resistance?which is now in the Smithsonian's National Museum...