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Review : Earthly presence

As impressive as a French government extravaganza, a kind of
son-et-lumi猫re Journey To The Centre of the Earth, the Natural History
Museum鈥檚 new Earth Sciences gallery has landed. It skilfully replaces cabinets
with sound-bite geology, but the 12-year-old accompanying me commented that it
is 鈥渘ot properly interactive鈥. Since it is a London venture, it鈥檚
sponsored鈥攂y the British conglomerate Rio Tinto Zinc. The subliminal
message? 鈥淥ur Restless Earth . . . constantly changing鈥濃攐r perhaps 鈥渆at
dross, eco-freaks鈥?

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