Here are two things that would help what looks, overall, like a nice effort:
Feature frequently-updated text articles on the homepage; advertising in such a prominent place is not attractive, and the flash is hard to accomodate
Remove the Wikipedia cut-and-paste; among other things, it will de-rank you in Google, since the SEO logic in Google is now removing sites that copy content from other, higher-ranked sites.
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