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...crafting for Denver International Airport fell as it was being transported, crushing him; in Hondo, N.M. 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...
...Aarons determined to devote the rest of his career to chronicling, in his words, "attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places." Among the best-known images: Clark Gable, Van Heflin, Gary Cooper and Jimmy Stewart laughing conspiratorially in a 1957 photo called The Kings of Hollywood, left, which Smithsonian magazine called the "Mount Rushmore of stardom...
...pizza parlor is more thoroughly computerized than most of health care. It's high time to put the paper medical record where it belongs - in the Smithsonian, next to the typewriter. Proper use of modern information systems for medical records will support much more integrated care, and will allow patients to feel better supported and remembered as they move from place to place and over time. Importantly, a computerized medical record and be, and should be, accessible to patients directly, and under their control...
...that desperate sense, but in that tiny green men sense? That’s the question Professor of Physics Paul Horowitz wants to answer. He is the faculty director of Harvard’s recently christened optical telescope, which scans the skies for extraterrestrial life from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics’ Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Mass. It is the first optical telescope dedicated specifically to the search for alien life. “About half [the people we talk to] think we’re looking for UFOs, and I try to dispel that notion...
...history will be able to take their “ass to the museum”—in the characteristically bombastic words of “Cop Killer” rapper Ice-T—to have some knowledge dropped on their inquiring domes. Grandmaster Flash, the Smithsonian needs you. The Smithsonian’s recent request for rap artifacts to be featured in their upcoming exhibit, “Hip Hop Won’t Stop: The Beats, the Rhymes, the Life,” has been perceived both as a threat to the legitimacy...