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London’s Victoria and Albert Museum is trying to improve its handling of antiquities after a 500-year-old Chinese statue was decapitated, the London Observer reported Sunday. The life-size statue of a Korean envoy to the imperial court in Peking survived the centuries virtually unharmed until museum workmen tried to lift it onto a trolley last October. The one-ton figure toppled over and the envoy lost his head. The Observer reported that museum officials said--after an investigation--that its workmen needed better training and equipment.