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• Starkey's Zon™ Wins the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum's 2008 People's Design Award

  - 2008-10-27

  MINNEAPOLIS -- Starkey Laboratories, Inc., one of the world's leading hearing technology companies, is proud to announce that its ZonTM hearing aid is the winner of the 2008 People's Design Award presented by the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Zon, the best-in-class receiver-in-canal line of products that was launched this...

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• Puerto Rico at the Smithsonian Podcast Available at http://www.moreaboutthat.info/tres12/

  - 2008-09-29

  Puerto Rico has taken center stage at the Smithsonian Latin Center in Washington, DC. "Puerto Rico at the Smithsonian" has partnered with the Museum of Puerto Rican Art MAPR to create a series of programs highlighting Latin American culture through exhibitions and educational activities. The activities began on September...

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• Enter the realm of the crystal skull

  - 2008-05-27

  Here's something to know about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: There really are such things as crystal skulls. Even the Smithsonian has one. You might hear a lot of hoo-ha, especially online, about the carved quartz objects, a dozen of which exist...

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• "Design Matters" Internet Talk Show Nominated For 2007 People's Design Award From Cooper Hewitt Museum

  - 2007-10-16

  Award from Smithsonian's National Design Museum Honors Most Popular Contributions to International Graphic Design; Public Voting Ends Wednesday, October 17th PHOENIX -- Modavox, Inc. (OTCBB: MDVX), a leading Internet broadcaster and program syndicator, announced today that "Design Matters" with Debbie Millman, Modavox's Web-based radio talk show broadcast every Friday...

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• Smithsonian Institution Launches Exploratory Phase to Showcase Indian American History

  - 2007-10-11

  To: FOREIGN EDITORSContact: Toby Chaudhuri, +1-978-884-8626, for the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program; or Francey Youngberg of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program, +1-202-487-8160 WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program Director Franklin Odo today kicked-off an exploratory phase for a major project to showcase Indian American...

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• The Fertilizer Institute announces a $1 million commitment in the name of the Nutrients for Life Foundation to the Smithsonian Institution for an exhibition about soils at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington

  - 2007-07-01

  The Fertilizer Institute TFI announces a $1 million commitment in the name of the Nutrients for Life Foundation to the Smithsonian Institution for an exhibition about soils at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. The 5,000-square-foot soils exhibit is being developed by the Smithsonian in...

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• Access group posts Smithsonian images online

  - 2007-05-27

  WASHINGTON -- Grabbing pictures of iconic Smithsonian Institution artifacts just got a whole lot easier. Before, if you wanted to get a picture of the Wright Brothers' plane, you could go to the Smithsonian Images Web site and pay for a print or high-resolution image after clicking through...

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• More Than 18 Million Students Registered for the National Museum of the American Indian's Electronic Field Trip

  - 2007-05-03

  To: EDUCATION EDITORSContact: Amy Drapeau, +1-202-633-6614 or drapeaua@si.edu, or Leonda Levchuk, +1-202-633-6613 or levchukl@si.edu, both of the Smithsonian Institution WASHINGTON, May 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- More than 18 million students will view an electronic field trip May 8, hosted by the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian through a partnership...

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• Smithsonian Celebrates Sixth Annual Jazz Appreciation Month This April

  - 2007-03-30

  To: FAMILY EDITORSContact: Valeska Hilbig of Smithsonian National Museum of American History, +1-202-633-3129 WASHINGTON, March 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For the Smithsonian Institution and its National Museum of American History the month of April means one thing: Jazz. This April marks the sixth annual commemoration of Jazz Appreciation Month, a celebration...

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• EVENTS Good neighbors

  - 2007-03-11

  Straddle it, jump it, climb it, lean on it. Fence it out, fence it in. That ubiquitous feature of the American landscape is the subject of a traveling Smithsonian exhibit that puts down its posts in Paola on Friday. During the show's six-week stay at the...

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