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Is New York City's weather destroying a 3,500-year-old Egyptian obelisk? That's a question the city's Department of Parks and Recreation is setting out to answer this summer as it conducts a ''weathering study'' of Cleopatra's Needle, which was given to the United States government by Egypt as a gift to commemorate the opening of the Suez Canal. The obelisk has stood in Central Park since 1881. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]