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Berlin’s Holocaust memorial at risk of crumbling

BERLIN (Reuters) – German authorities have started reinforcing hundreds of concrete blocks at Berlin’s Holocaust memorial with steel collars after a study revealed they were at risk of crumbling.

The memorial to Jews killed in World War Two has become one of Berlin’s most popular tourist attractions, drawing coach loads of visitors each day to wander through the maze of gravestone-like blocks a short walk from the Brandenburg Gate.

A survey by engineers found about 1 in [...]

TO SAVE JACKSON MEMORIAL WE NEED MORE THAN A FORMER BANKER

By Farid A. Khavari

 

Bankers are notoriously known to wreak havoc on the economy, as we have seen with recent events on Wall Street; if they had not been bailed out, most of them would have gone bankrupt. Are they any better at fixing business problems, especially when it comes to pulling a hospital out of the red into the black? That’s the question we’ll be exploring here.

 

CARLOS MIGOYA – A [...]

Interior Sec. orders quick fix to misquote on MLK memorial

By Rachel Manteuffel, Friday, January 13, 4:44 PM

Five months ago, in this space, I wrote that something was wrong with the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial. The quotation inscribed on the monument’s left flank had been so badly excerpted that a modest statement of King’s was turned into a boast.

At the time, it wasn’t clear how or why this had happened, but what seemed likely, at least to me, was that nothing would be done about it. [...]

FIRST AMERICAN KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN REMEMBERED WITH RARE CIA REQUEST

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WASHINGTON (AP) — CIA officers are asking people to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of the first American killed in the Afghan war by donating to help the children of their fellow fallen.

Since the death in 2001 of CIA officer Mike Spann, a total of 23 stars have been added to the wall at the CIA’s Langley, Va., headquarters that honors CIA operatives lost. Many were killed [...]

NYC 9-11 memorial museum may charge $20 admission

NEW YORK – Visitors to the museum at the national 9/11 memorial could be required to pay an entrance fee of about $20, though victims’ relatives will always be able to enter for free, the president and CEO of the memorial foundation said Thursday.

Joe Daniels, the president and CEO of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, told City Council members at a hearing that [...]