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...China's earliest history. Among his acquisitions in the museum's extensive bronze collection is an enormous basin from the 6th century B.C., the largest of its kind outside China. But the true bronze masterpiece is a work older by some 600 years, the so-called Tigress you (wine vessel), which the museum bought after its patron's death. The vase, from the Shang dynasty (roughly 1550 to 1050 B.C.), was used for ancestor worship, and is shaped like an open-jawed feline, with a child either resting in its chest or being devoured. The placid expression on the child...
...eyes, a handlebar moustache and full beard. Obviously he is not Han Chinese, and that's what makes figures from the vibrant Tang dynasty so interesting. During this period, trade along the Silk Route was at its height, and foreigners, like this Central Asian carrying a cornucopia-shaped wine vessel, were welcomed and valued. Xi'an, the Tang capital, was a prosperous, cosmopolitan city, as a small sculpture of an African entertainer demonstrates. This openness extended to women, too: an enchanting group of eight confident-looking young female musicians on horseback attests to their near-equal status with men.The renovation...
...three Carnival Cruise Lines ships that was chartered to house thousands of relief workers and possibly evacuees for at least six months, at a cost of around $220 million, was still docked in Mobile, Ala., most of last week and empty, as Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana jockeyed for the vessel. More ominously, in the wake of the horrifying discovery of 34 bodies at a Louisiana nursing home and an additional 45 at New Orleans' Memorial Medical Center, a very public dispute about the slow pace of gathering bodies in New Orleans erupted between FEMA and Kathleen Blanco, the Governor...
Trouble also comes by sea in CBS's Threshold (Fridays, 9 p.m. E.T.), but this time it's an alien invasion. A Navy vessel is visited by a spacecraft that resembles a shape-shifting Christmas ornament; the boat's surviving crew members have their DNA reprogrammed with alien code and turn evil. So Washington calls in Molly Anne Caffrey (Carla Gugino), a worst-case-scenario consultant, and assembles a team of eccentric scientists. The cast is startlingly good--there's also Peter Dinklage (The Station Agent) and Charles S. Dutton (Roc)--given that the actors have to deliver lines like...
AILING. JACQUES CHIRAC, 72, French President, who suffered a blood-vessel problem that blurred his vision and was hospitalized as a precaution since a vascular incident can indicate a ministroke; in Paris...