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Museum authenticates long-lost Van Gogh
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Painting, once deemed a fake, unveiled after years in attic day, making it the first fullsize canvas by the Dutch artist to be discovered since 1928. Experts at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam authenticated the 1888 landscape Sunset at Montmajour with the help of Vincent Van Gogh’s letters, chemical
By Toby Sterling
The Associated Press
AMSTERDAM — A painting that sat for six decades in a Norwegian industrialist’s attic after he was told it was a fake Van Gogh was pronounced the real thing Mon-
analysis of the pigments and X-rays of the canvas. Museum director Axel Rueger, at an unveiling ceremony, called the discovery a “once-in-a-lifetime experience.”
Sunset at Montmajour was identified Monday as a long-lost piece painted by Vincent Van Gogh in 1888. The painting is the first full-size canvas by Van Gogh that has been found since 1928. PETER DEJONG/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Push for early education
Sudden ‘plan’ gains traction Global leaders get behind Kerry’s suggestion to avert strike by U.S.
By Julie Pace and Matthew Lee
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — In a rapid and remarkable chain of events, Syria welcomed the idea of turning over all of its chemical weapons for destruction on Monday, and President Barack Obama, though expressing deep skepticism, declared it a “potentially a significant breakthrough” that could head off the threats of U.S. air strikes that have set the world on edge. The administration pressed ahead in its efforts to persuade Congress to authorize a military strike, and Obama said the day’s developments were doubtless due in part to the “credible possibility” of that action. He stuck to his plan to address the nation Tuesday night, while the Senate Democratic leader postponed a vote on authorization. The sudden developments broke into the open when Russia’s foreign minister, seizing on what appeared at the time to be an off-the-cuff remark by Secretary of State John Kerry, appeared in Moscow alongside his Syrian counterpart and proposed the chemical weapons turnover and destruction. The Syrian quickly embraced the idea, and before long U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon did, too.
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INSIDe u Sen. Heinrich says he’ll vote for the resolution to authorize military action against Syria. PAGe A-6
Panel weighs changes for dairy, copper industries
From left, Pam Remstein, director of the Santa Fe Children’s Project Early Learning Center, and United Way of Santa Fe County CEO Katherine Freeman speak with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan in a classroom at the center Monday as Belen Pichardo Najarro, 4, and Hailey C de Vaca, 4, play in the foreground. PHOTOS BY JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN
Duncan visits New Mexico to promote Obama’s Preschool for All proposal By Robert Nott The New Mexican
U
.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan rolled into Santa Fe Monday on a green and blue bus decorated with a mural of animals frolicking in the shade of an acorn tree. New Mexico was represented by a bear wearing a zia symbol. Duncan is on a multistate bus tour of New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and California as part of an orchestrated effort — campaign-style bus and all — to sell Congress on
President Barack Obama’s proposal to provide preschool education to all children. The president mentioned the initiative in his State of the Union speech in January and pledged $75 billion toward it in his 2014 budget request in April. The Preschool for All plan does not mandate states expand early-childhood education, and even if Congress approves it, many states that weren’t already planning to expand pre-K may not accept the federal incentives to do so.
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‘Georgia O’Keeffe in New Mexico: Architecture, Katsinam, and the Land’
Water quality commission to hear arguments on permit rules By Staci Matlock The New Mexican
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, center, and local leaders talk about early-childhood education during a panel discussion Monday at the Early Learning Center.
Eduardo M. “Monty” Montoya, 93, Sept. 4 Elisa Archuleta, 90, Santa Fe, Aug. 28 PAGe A-9
Today Showers and a heavier storm. High 74, low 56.
Exhibit closing Wednesday, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, 217 Johnson St., 946-1000.
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Postal problem Pojoaque-area residents upset over decision to end delivery to mailboxes at local shopping center. LOCAL, A-5
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Construction crews are putting finishing touches on the Railyard office space where 70 city employees will work.
State regulators on Tuesday begin reviewing proposed changes to two rules that environmentalists say would ease restrictions on industries that pollute groundwater. The proposals would primarily impact the copper mining and dairy industries in the southern part of the state, but they also could have implications for Los Alamos National Laboratory and other industries in Northern New Mexico. Rules regulating discharge permits for the copper and dairy industries were approved by the state Environment Department in 2011. Both industries are among the many entities in the state — ranging from LANL and Sandia National Laboratories to wastewater treatment plants — that must obtain permits for releasing contaminants, such as arsenic or nitrates, that can leach into groundwater. Currently, the Environment Department oversees more than 1,000 discharge permits around the state. The dairy and copper industries are seeking changes to the rules regulating their discharge permits. The Water Quality Control Commission, appointed by the governor, is slated to hear arguments for and against changing the rules. One of the changes sought by both industries would allow mines and dairies to reduce and change the placement of monitoring wells.
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