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Show Sunday, September Hawaiian natives press Pennsylvania science, arts center opens HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) After six years of planning apd two years of construction, this city's new $52.7 million Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts is open for busi- By since the British Capt. James Cook landed in Hawaii in 1778 GARY A. WARNER Knight Ridder Newspapers Hawaii marks the 40th anniversary of statehood this year, but not everyone is celebrating. "We have never relinquished our sovereignty; we have never agreed to be part of the United States," says Noenoe Silva, a Hawaiian-right- s activist. For the activists, native Hawaiians have been exploited pure-bloode- d Page E5 case for island sovereignty their case is not as weak as it might seem. Congress apologized to Hawaii in 1993 for allowing a group led by pineapple baron Sanford Dole to overthrow the Hawaiian government in 1893. After banning the Hawaiian language, the Dole group offered the islands to American envoy John Stevens. The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe, and this is the golden hour for the United States to during the reign of King Kamehameha I. The activists want the United States to reverse its annexation of the islands in 1898, acknowledge Hawaiian sovereignty, and return 1.4 million acres of land about a third of the islands. Though their numbers are small (there are just 8,200 Hawaiians left), IW9.THE DAILY HERALD, Prove, Utah pluck it," Stevens wrote to Washington, which accepted the offer in 1898. Gov. Ben' Cayetano has called for negotiations on Hawaiian rights. The recovery of Hawaiian is not only an issue for Hawaii, bur" for America," Cayetano said in The activists continue, to protest, saying, "Ua mau ke ea o ka 'aina i ka pono." Roughly translated: The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness." Visit us online www.heraldextra.com ness. The downtown center, which opened Sept. 9, ha3 more than 200 exhibits, an IMAX mora theater with a y screen, and another theater capable of seating more than 600 for live performances. Asked what his favorite displays are, Tom Massey, who works for one of the center's !n! W CO) jj ( (d) w " ii ii (d) f: i; (g ij six-stor- is ( .1 11 exhibit contractors, mentions the hall of holographic images for children, the spring coil that allows a visitor to play a tambourine from across the room, and the two big boxes that generate wind and rain sound effects when visitors crank the handles. Then he goes over to a section geared for 2- - to and shows off a small chair affixed to a proximity in effect, a sensor high-tec- h whoopee cushion. "The chair's probably the biggest hit here, adults and children alike," says Massey, of Maltbie Associates of Mount Laurel, N.J. 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