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• IMAX® Theater Film Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag Surpasses 150 Million Viewers Worldwide

  - 2008-07-28

  Film Has Reached Over 1 Million Viewers at the Smithsonian IMAX[R] Theaters Alone, Making It the 2nd-Highest Grossing Aviation Film Ever at the Smithsonian EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- According to Smithsonian V.P. of IMAX[R] Theater Operations, Toby Mensforth, the dynamic Giant Screen film "Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag" has...

  Tags: Cable, FINANCE, HARDWARE, K2, Leadership, Museum, Red Flag Software, Smithsonian Institution, Storage, Strategy, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, theater, TVs, U.S.

• Haleh Esfandiari, 67, is director of the Middle East Program at the Smithsonian Institution's Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

  - 2007-06-11

  Haleh Esfandiari, 67, is director of the Middle East Program at the Smithsonian Institution's Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She holds both American and Iranian citizenship. Late last year, she went to Iran to visit her 93-year-old mother. As she was on her way to the airport to return...

  Tags: democracy, Iran, Smithsonian Institution, U.S.

• Direct & Current

  - 2006-07-01

  NON-RESIDENTIAL LIGHTING DEMAND has caused a surge in shipments of lighting products, this year's first quarter being the best since 2000, according to the National Lighting Bureau, which tracked, among other products, lamps, luminaires, blasts, emergency lighting, and exit signs. Strong gains were reported in domestic shipments of nonresidential products-energy...

  Tags: Caterpillar Inc., FINANCE, MARKETING, PRODUCTIVITY, Smithsonian Institution, Taxes, U.S.

• Canada at a Glance: AM.

  - 2006-06-26

  Byline: Resource News International WINNIPEG, MB, Jun 26, 2006 Resource News International via COMTEX -- The following is a quick glimpse of the news making the headlines in Canada. CANADIAN CAPTIVE FREED IN HAITI PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A Canadian missionary who...

  Tags: Alberta, Canada, FINANCE, Government, Investment, Klein, Smithsonian Institution, Spectator, U.S., Washington

• U.S. must face truth about atomic bombings

  - 2005-08-07

  Sixty years ago Saturday, an atomic bomb was dropped without warning on the center of the Japanese city of Hiroshima. One hundred and forty thousand people were killed, more than 95 percent of them women and children and other noncombatants. At least half of the victims died of radiation poisoning...

  Tags: democracy, exhibit, Government, Japan, SECURITY, Smithsonian Institution, SOFTWARE, U.S.

• Museum director receives Madison Freedom Award

  - 2005-04-13

  Indian Country Today Lakota Times 04-13-2005 WASHINGTON - Entering its second year as founder and host of the Madison Freedom Award, The Madison Hotel honored W. Richard West Jr., director of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, and John W. Carlin, ...

  Tags: director, education, museum, Smithsonian Institution, U.S.

• The battle for America's front yard: debate over the new World War II Memorial isn't the first to embroil the National Mall. And it won't be the last.

  - 2004-06-01

  The grandest stage in the United States--the National Mall in Washington, D.C.--is rarely quiet. People swarm here to visit museums, protest injustice, or simply play. Even when the Mall is quiet, it's thunderous, reverberating with history and memory: for instance, a family leaving a flag beneath...

  Tags: Castle, Lincoln, museum, Smithsonian Institution, U.S., Washington

• Apologies for atrocities: commemorating the 50th anniversary of World War II's end in the United States and Japan.

  - 2004-06-01

  The aftermath of the recent terrorist attack on Washington, D.C. and New York demonstrated the heroism of fire fighters, police officers, emergency medical personnel as well as volunteer workers. The tragedy also revealed how the imagery of World War II as well as the racial representation...

  Tags: Asia, Bernstein, CBS Corp., exhibition, Government, Japan, media, memory, Minister, Smithsonian Institution, U.S., women

• Japanese Survivors of Hiroshima A-Bombing to Protest Enola Gay Exhibit

  - 2003-12-10

  WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- " the bomb was dropped, my whole body was in flames," said Sunao Tsuboi who was 20 years old when the atomic bomb incinerated the world he knew in Hiroshima. Suano Tsuboi and other victims of the U.S. nuclear attack will be at the...

  Tags: attack, delegation, SECURITY, Smithsonian Institution, U.S.

• Periscope

  - 2003-05-19

  WMD: Looted and Lost? U.S. troops have yet to turn up conclusive evidence that Iraq was maintaining a nuclear, biological or chemical NBC arsenal. Two very suspicious trailer rigs turned up last week in Mosul. The Pentagon called them mobile bio-labs. The first of the truck-drawn labs, intercepted at...

  Tags: Baghdad, bomb, INTERNET, Iraq, Legend, NBC Universal Inc., officer, Saddam, Smithsonian Institution, U.S.