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Museum's weighty challenge: securing Thai bird

sfgate.com
Dec. 30, 2009
Vince Avalos, the Asian Art Museum's mountmaker, has a complete metal shop at his disposal, and he needs it. Every object displayed there has to be secured against an earthquake of 1906 intensity. For the Asian's current "Emerald Cities: Arts of Burma and...
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President Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Washington
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch