Museums and Exhibits

‘Stay-cations’: High gas prices, air fares have residents looking at vacations around home (Plano Courier)

6 Jul 2008

A gallon of regular unleaded gasoline is approaching $4 per gallon. The price of an airline ticket is going up, and now you have to pay extra to check your bags on some airlines. And the airlines are ready to cut capacity. Recent reports have told us that rental-car costs are rising.

Six area firms make list of fastest-growing U.S. companies (The Champaign News-Gazette)

6 Jul 2008

When Inc. magazine compiled its most recent list of the 5,000 fastest- growing firms in the United States, six area companies showed up on it. They included: a company that makes less-toxic cleaning solvents; a business that makes museum exhibits and a firm that builds and maintains towers for cell-phone companies.

Skin Tight: Human body exhibits grow in popularity (The Morning News)

6 Jul 2008

HOT SPRINGS - Exhibits featuring human cadavers have become "staggeringly popular," though viewers in some museums have no assurance that the perfectly preserved bodies once belonged to people who willingly agreed to one day put their skin, bones and organs on display.