Topic: The Parthenon
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A hopeless romantic meets her match
Touring Greece's antiquities, a traveler comes face to face with the temples of the ancient gods – and her childhood dreams.
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The Daily Reckoning
Which is worse, China's debt problem or ours?
The US is in bad shape with subprime debt, but China's local governments aren't doing so well either
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 10/15
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The Daily Reckoning
In world's debt storm, who gets hit?
Someone will pay for the world's debt crisis, but who it will be – banks, savers, investors, taxpayers – hasn't been determined yet.
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Earth Hour 2010 aims to get 1 billion to turn off the lights
For this year's Earth Hour, set for 8:30 p.m. Saturday, more businesses and governments are expected to take part in the campaign to turn off the lights. The aim: at least 1 billion participants.
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Global News Blog
Is Earth Hour a threat to the NCAA basketball tournament?
More than 100 countries will turn out the lights on March 27 for Earth Hour, casting normally illuminated icons such as Sydney's Opera House and Beijing's Birds Nest into darkness. But expect the NCAA basketball tournament to stay on TV.
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Donald Marron
Sorry, Germany. Greece won't sell Corfu. Wanna buy Yosemite?
An indebted America would never sell off cultural assets like Yosemite. But it could unload the TARP.
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The Daily Reckoning
Germans to Greeks: Sell the acropolis, Parthenon, and Aegean Islands
Some Germans argue that Greece should sell its assets to pay down its debts.
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Global News Blog
Germany: Time for Egypt's Nefertiti bust to go home?
A German museum has a bust of the Egyptian Queen Nefertiti as its centerpiece. But should Germany and other Western nations keep or return Egypt's cultural artifacts?
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Showcased at Greece's new Acropolis Museum: missing artifacts
Athens hopes the gallery, which opened Saturday, will push the British Museum to relinquish its half of the famed Parthenon Marbles.
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Dear Nia Vardalos, about those columns
A moviegoer hopes that in Nia Vardalos's latest film, she will correct a mistake about the Parthenon's columns.
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Art museums struggle with provenance issues
Recent high-profile police raids show that the problem of stolen and looted art remains.
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