ISSUE XLXIV

WEDNESDAY

April 09, 2008

Last updated at 1 p.m. Wednesday

Tanzanian First Lady makes AU appearance
bySAKINA RANGWALA

Closing the nuclear deal with India
byJAYSHAL SOOD

FDR: A past president fit for modern times
byJOAN SOLEY

Genetic discrimination can hurt health care coverage
byCASEY LABRACK

Learning to live without a smoke
byRYAN SIBLEY

Wharf development to spark tourism
bySABRINA PARKER

AU students launch campaign to prevent malaria
byKATE WILLSON

Forty-five words make up one of the most important rights in the United States. It was the simplicity and power of the First Amendment that led the Newseum to engrave the words on a 74-foot-high marble slab in front of it's newly-built museum.

After seven years of construction, Washington's tribute to the news media opens its doors to the public on Friday at 555 Pennsylvania Avenue at the intersection of 6th Street NW.

Fourteen exhibition galleries in the 250,000-square-foot museum explore news history, photojournalism, world news, and media coverage of historical events -- such as a the fall of the Berlin Wall and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11.

In special coverage, the Observer's Cristina Fernandez-Pereda writes about the architect behind the Newseum, reactions from from international journalists, and talks to those in the industry about this latest monument.

The Observer's Federica Valabrega presents a photo gallery of the museum, while the Observer's Liz Anderson provides a first-person perspective of the Newseum.

»View the Observer's full coverage of the opening

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