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The American Museum of Natural History is a landmark institution on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Its collection contains more than 32 million specimens, but only a fraction can be on display within its 46 exhibition halls.
The American Museum of Natural History is a landmark institution on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Its collection contains more than 32 million specimens, but only a fraction can be on display within its 46 exhibition halls.
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MODEL MATERIAL? Then head to Vibrant Rioja wine's open call, where you'll sashay down a runway and chat with judges. The winner gets a case of wine and a day at Fashion Week as a spokesmodel. To compete, go to Union Square (south side), Sunday, 10 a.m. to...Tags: Lauren Hutton, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Gossip Girl, Ugly Betty
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NYC exhibit of diamonds arranged as butterfly
An exhibition of 240 colorful diamonds arranged in the shape of a dazzling butterfly opened Thursday at the American Museum of Natural History. "The Butterfly of Peace," weighing 166.94 carats, is housed inside a glass box at the museum's Morgan...Tags: Field Museum of Natural History
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Howard County Datebook
Today Historic park Patapsco Valley State Park will offer a program for all ages, "A Brief History of the Orange Grove Area," from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. The group will meet at the Orange Grove restrooms near the Swinging Bridge, 5120 South St., Halethorpe....Tags: People, Government, Music Industry, Astronomy, Elvis Presley
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Big screen, big demand
Sun reporterStaid scientist by day, big-time entertainer by night. That may sound like a set-up for the next comic book superhero and his requisite secret identity. But these days, it's increasingly the story of IMAX theaters like the one at the Maryland Science...Tags: Speed Racer, Franklin (Franklin, Virginia), Ben Stiller, The Dark Knight, Batman
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Device can reveal what you touched
The Associated PressScientists have found ways to tease even more clues out of fingerprints' telltale marks -- one in a string of developments that gives modern forensics even better ways to solve mysteries like the anthrax attacks or JonBenet Ramsey's murder. For example,...Tags: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Explosions, Emergency Incidents, Purdue University, Colleges and Universities
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One that almost got away
The big fish is coming back.
On Saturday, 73 years to the day that a 32-foot whale shark was caught off Fire Island, a newly restored taxidermic specimen of it will be unveiled at the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum in Centerport.
The fish, believed to...Tags: History, Fire Island
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Broadway a big hit for Verdugo Hills High drama students
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNew York Behold America's theater capital, twinkling, preening, clanging, stoking ambitions and devouring tourist dollars. Now behold the drama students of Verdugo Hills High School, their parents ferrying them from the San Fernando Valley to LAX, their...Tags: Dancing, Mel Brooks, Hotels and Accommodations, Classical Music, Woody Allen
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Women continue steady climb to positions of state leadership
The number of women in state government leadership positions is on the rise, with the percentage nearly mirroring their representation in the general population in six states, a study has found. Of the governor-appointed posts in all 50 states last year,...Tags: Heads of State, Government, Population
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Seals help researchers collect data in the Antarctic
WASHINGTON - Bitter cold and floating sea ice long frustrated scientists seeking to study the ocean around Antarctica in winter. The solution: Send in the seals. The polar regions are expected to be especially sensitive to climate change, but... -
Skip the lines and save at New York's main attractions
Quit standing around in museum lobbies. To save dollars and time in line at eight more-or-less mandatory Manhattan destinations, consider a Citypass ([888] 330-5008, www.citypass.com). For $74 per adult (or $54 if you're 12 to 17), this booklet gets you...Tags: Transportation, People, Battery Park, Museum of Modern Art, Statue of Liberty
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Ancient T. rex tissue, or just old slime?
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSoft, organic material discovered inside a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil that scientists believed was 70-million-year-old dinosaur tissue may have been nothing more than ordinary slime, scientists said in a study published Wednesday. Researchers reported in...Tags: Paleontology, Penn State University, Natural Science, Colleges and Universities
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Scientist Finds 'World's Smallest Snake'
Associated PressSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- A U.S. scientist said Sunday he has discovered the globe's tiniest species of snake in the easternmost Caribbean island of Barbados, with full-grown adults typically stretching less than 4 inches (10 centimeters) long. S. Blair...Tags: Puerto Rico, Penn State University, Research, Genetics, Animals
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