Topic: Smithsonian Institution
The new director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health laid out his priorities today, spending his 1st day on the job speaking to his staff and reporters. Collins also sought to allay perhaps the biggest concerns about his nomination last month ...
At the Smithsonian Institution, where the chief executive officer is known as the Secretary, the ultimate authority has been vested by law in its Board of Regents since the Institution's establishment 160 years ago.. The Smithsonian, to be located in Washington, D.C., ...
Smithsonian photography exhibit highlights President Obama's inaugurationThe Smithsonian Institution is highlighting President Barack Obama's inauguration with an exhibit of more than 30 color and black-and-white photographs.The exhibit opens to the public Wednesday Obama's 100th day in office and runs through July 12 ...
OPPONENTS called it an ugly place, suitable chiefly for copper mining, yet in 1908 President Roosevelt designated the Grand Canyon a national monument. His irresistible images of a polar bear and its newborn cubs, displayed in the Senate, helped to turn a ...
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Smithsonian Muppets
Jane Henson makes some final touches before donating some of Jim Henson ...AP News - -
Indian Artifacts Returned
This undated photo provided by the the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum ...AP News - -
Money Expo
In this Aug. 10, 2010 photo, coin dealer Dustin Massie, of Granite ...AP Features -
