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Because of Detroit's disastrous past decade, the renovation took longer than expected, and the museum struggled: attendance, which is highly dependent on special exhibits, fell sharply. Last year Beal reduced the DIA's budget, from $32 million to $26 million, partly by laying off 20% of the museum's staff. Cultural sites nationwide are struggling to weather the economic crisis, but the challenge facing Detroit's institutions is especially severe; they can no longer rely on support from the region's ailing auto industry. Raising money, Beal says, "has been unbelievably challenging." (See TIME's special report "The Committee...
...Best Picture and Best Director - a coalition of environmental groups launched a campaign to highlight the movie's not-so-hidden green subtext, and to prevail upon the director to use the awards-show platform to send the world an environmental message. (See pictures of James Cameron's best special effects...
...video, entitled "Multiply," does not feature a fictional backstory a la Pfoho or special effects like those of Currier. Rather, it resembles a typical music video. "I gotta testify, Leverett House gonna stay extra fly," the song goes. "We just don't die, we multiply...
Review: You must love cheese for this one, so be sure to have it on a day when the dhall is serving up slices you like. Definitely go for Wood’s special dressing—it takes the sandwich beyond the ordinary mix of flavors...
...least that's how the story goes, according to the local Thai press and the old chargé d'affaires. Thailand's Department of Special Investigation (DSI), which is similar to the FBI, says it has no evidence to confirm the facts of the case - and doesn't even know whether the blue stone that's said to be larger than the Hope Diamond exists. What is certain is that the alleged theft eventually cost Thailand billions of dollars, left people dead in its wake and put an Elvis-impersonating Thai official on death row. More than 20 years later...