Boeing gives big to Smithsonian
The Boeing Co. is giving $15 million to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum. The gift, the largest corporate gift in Smithsonian history, will go to the expansion of the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, the museum’s Virginia annex.
The Udvar-Hazy complex will hold 220 airplanes and has giant spacecraft, such as the shuttle Enterprise.
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Contract renewal: “Today” co-host Matt Lauer will stay on the NBC news show until 2011, earning around $13 million a year.*
New York bound: The seventh annual Latin Grammy Awards will be broadcast live from Madison Square Garden on Nov. 2, the first time New York will host the show.
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