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...grim state lunatic asylum at Islip, New York. He never emerged from it -- or painted again. The last of his money paid for storage of the enormous, unsorted mass of Johnson's canvases, possessions and oddments. New York museums were not interested, but finally in 1966 the Smithsonian Institution in Washington agreed to house his life's work. Johnson was too far gone to register this; in 1970, still confined in Islip, he died...
...before Clinton swept California and five other primaries to put him over the top in delegates -- he embarked on a grueling tour of California's media markets. It was the kind of old-fashioned campaign day that probably should be preserved in amber and sent to the Smithsonian because, as Perot has demonstrated, presidential candidates no longer have to put their bodies on the line like this to get TV attention. First stop was the tiny San Joaquin Valley farm town of Kerman, a 40-minute motorcade ride from the Fresno airport. At a lunchtime rally in Oakland, Clinton lapsed...
...Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution Robert M. Adams...
...taught anthropology at numerousuniversities, including the University of Chicagoand Johns Hopkins. He has also authored fourworks, including Land Behind Baghdad andThe Heartland of Cities. He now serves asSecretary of the Smithsonian Institution inWashington...
...than viewing concern about endangered species as a barrier that the industrial world is placing in the way of progress, the developing nations might see biodiversity as a resource that, if properly inventoried and managed, could generate real income. The idea, says Thomas Lovejoy, a tropical ecologist at the Smithsonian Institution, is "to start thinking about the problem as a joint venture in which both sides have property rights...