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...issue is being organized by a New York-based postal agency, Inter-Governmental Philatelic Corp. (IGPC), along with the Smithsonian Institution's Center for African-American History and Culture and Howard University's African-American Resource Center...
This morning at 10 a.m. at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. there will be an issuing ceremony including a stamp unveiling by the living honorees and family members for the deceased honorees...
After spending 26 years at MIT as a research staff assistant and as a professor of geophysics and physics, Shapiro in 1983 became director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA) and professor of astronomy and physics...
...weekend, your first stop should be The Computer Museum in downtown Boston. Boston's Computer Museum is the only institution of its kind in the world, literally. Their collection and knowledge of historic computer equipment is so rare, they actually have the first joint collecting agreement with the Smithsonian...
...gone on the block in such a high-profile way that her price (not to mention her head) will inevitably go through the roof--and that's a problem for paleontologists, for whom a fossil this good is almost priceless. A nonprofit institution like the (currently Tyrannosaurus-less) Smithsonian, for example, will probably have to scrape up at least $1 million, and possibly more, to get this irreplaceable specimen--which is only partly mineralized and so offers scientists a rare chance to study actual dinosaur-bone tissue. "This will open the floodgates," says Don Wolberg, executive director of special projects...