Blue Ribbon ends inquiry into NAIA Terminal 3 contract.
Byline: MARIO B. CASAYURAN The Senate Blue Ribbon committee headed by Senator Joker Arroyo terminated yesterday its public inquiry into the contract to build International Passenger Terminal 3 of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) on which the Philippine International Air Terminal Company, Inc. (PIATCO) has already...

Senate Blue Ribbon hears PIATCO project.
Byline: MARIO B. CASAYURAN Sen. Joker Arroyo, chairman of the Senate Blue Ribbon committee, said yesterday the Philippine government might eventually manage and operate the $597-million International Passenger Terminal 3 (IPT 3) of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) as it continues re-negotiating in a friendly atmosphere...

Rumpf's Ambonese Curiosity Cabinet (1705) and the first color-plate illustrations of minerals.
Illustrating the beauty and subtlety of the mineral world in published works has been a daunting challenge since the first woodcut engraving of a tourmaline crystal appeared in Conrad Gesner's De omni rerum fossilium in 1565. Representation in color was an even greater challenge, demanding the combined skills of...

The 'Briquetage de la Seille' (Lorraine, France): proto-industrial salt production in the European Iron Age.
Introduction Salt is a mineral resource essential for the existence of human societies, and crucially, one that must be procured in part through artificial means. It may be obtained directly by mining deposits accessible from the surface, a technique which was used during the Bronze and Iron...

Travel Brief Preview.
TRAVEL BRIEF PREVIEW Listed below are previously previewed exhibitions on tour between September 1 and December 31. VENUE NEW YORK Helio Oticica: Quasi-cinemas New Museum of Contemporary Art Gary Simmons Studio Museum in Harlem PHILADELPHIA Taken by Design Philadelphia Museum of Art WASHINGTON, DC Willem de Kooning: Tracing the...

DARMSTADT CELEBRATES 100 YEARS OF ART NOUVEAU.
FEW visitors to central Germany would include Darmstadt as part of their itinerary. Just south of that gigantic beehive that is Frankfurt, and slightly off the majestic river Rhine, it is a place where one might easily miss an important chapter of European history of art, written here 100...

The German Rheingau: home of funfairs and festivals.
Martina Weyreter Festivals have always been one of humanity's more pleasurable experiences, a universal part of cultural life round the world. But it is one particular area in Germany, the Rheingau in the state of Hesse, where the art of the Fest seems to have reached unrivalled...

"The Father of Bolivian Geology: Friedrich (Federico) Ahlfeld (1892-1982).
Bolivia is fortunate to have had the lifetime services of the renowned and distinguished geologist Friedrich (Federico) Ahlfeld, respected as "The Father of Bolivian Geology." In a career of over fifty years in mining geology in his adopted country of Bolivia, he published numerous works on the geology and...

WHAT MONEY CAN BUY.
Byline: Bob Keefer The Register-Guard PORTLAND - The Portland Art Museum has taken a curious turn in recent years. Its biggest shows have been not so much about art as they are about luxury, big money and Old World aristocracy. In 2000, the museum's socially...

Exchange students enjoy visit.
Byline: Betty Lilyestrom COLUMN: LEICESTER NOTEBOOK The young man from the German district of Hesse said he had a little trouble making friends here at first, "because I was shy." The student from Hong Kong took senior classes at Leicester High School, but...