Clips and Links http://clipclip.org/elainej/clips/tag/Antiques http://clipclip.org/elainej/clips/detail/15656 Antiques Sun, 18 Mar 2007 07:14:39 -0000 http://clipclip.org/elainej/clips/detail/15656 <div>Clipped by <a href="http://clipclip.org/elainej">elainej</a> </div><hr /> <div> <div id='ynwrap'> <div id='yncont'> <div id='ynbody'> <div id='ynstory'> <div id='ynmain'> <div style='caption-side : top;color : rgb(0, 0, 0);cursor : auto;direction : ltr;empty-cells : -moz-show-background;font-family : arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;font-size : 13.4667px;font-size-adjust : none;font-style : normal;font-variant : normal;font-weight : 400;letter-spacing : normal;line-height : 16.4px;list-style-image : none;list-style-position : outside;list-style-type : disc;text-align : left;text-indent : 0px;text-transform : none;white-space : normal;word-spacing : normal;background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);' id='storybody' clipisparent='true'> <!--Start Snippet --> <p>fghanistan - More than 1,400 artifacts — protected from looters and the Taliban since 1999 at a museum-in-exile in Switzerland — were returned to the National Museum of</p> <form class='yqin' action='http://yq.search.yahoo.com/search' method='post'> <span class='yqlink'> <input name='p' type='hidden' value='&quot;Afghanistan&quot;' ></input> <input name='sourceOrder' type='hidden' value='c1,i,yn,c3' ></input> <input name='c1' type='hidden' value='&lt;p style=&quot;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:13px;padding:0;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:.5em;&quot;&gt;Afghanistan&lt;/p&gt;' ></input> <input name='c3' type='hidden' value='&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SEARCH&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=%22Afghanistan%22&amp;fr=yqovly1&quot;&gt;News&lt;/a&gt; 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