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Just adding a title to your post to attract attention to it.
Carolyn Levi wrote:
> ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology Centers
> Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums and related
> institutions.
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> Did anyone else pick up on this quote from James Watson in yesterday's
> New York Times? [Context was the opening of the Wellcome Collection in
> London.] I can't decide whether it's scary, or not important, or just
> might potentially be useful in attracting funding.
> Carolyn
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>> Now 79, Dr. Watson spoke optimistically of progress being made in
>> discoveries into genetic ailments, but he also waxed poetic about the
>> new Wellcome Collection.
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>> “We have a large number of fine art museums,” he told reporters. “We
>> don’t have the equivalent number of science museums, so
>> congratulations. The United States is a disgrace. There is not a
>> first-rate science museum in the whole country. Let’s hope that what
>> you do here inspires us in the United States.”
>>
>> He had some suggestions. “Why hasn’t Bill Gates built a science
>> museum?” he asked. “Or Warren Buffett? I wouldn’t have given my money
>> to Bill Gates. I’d have built a science museum.”
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> Here's the url of the full article -- (requires registration) --
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/21/arts/design/21well.html?adxnnl=1&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1182542435-u80FlCPvRIX7X9NRdJlxIw
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> Carolyn Levi, Ph.D.
> Interpretive Planning & Content Development
> 857-488-5985
> http://web.mac.com/imecarolyn/iWeb/Levi/Welcome.html
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