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Associated Press Technician Marion Price operates equipment Friday during a CT scan of the 4,000-year-old Egyptian mummy named Tjeby from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts at the HCA Virginia Imaging center in Richmond, Va. The CT scan produced a detailed three-dimensional image of the mummy.
Fine Arts Museum unwrapping mummy’s story with CT scan
RICHMOND, Va. — Using modern technology, a Virginia museum is working to unwrap the story behind one of the earliest surviving Egyptian mummies. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond part...
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Goodbye Barney: Thousands mourn Bush’s terrier
DALLAS — Thousands have offered their condolences via Facebook over the death of Barney, President George W. Bush’s beloved black Scottish terrier. Bush and his wife, Laura, released a statement...
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Surgeon at center of Sen. Menendez trips
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — To some, Dr. Salomon Melgen was a miracle worker who brought sight to the blind. To others, he was a smooth political player known for rubbing elbows and jet-setting. Whi...
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Obama offers faith groups new birth control rule in health plans
WASHINGTON — Facing a wave of lawsuits over what government can tell religious groups to do, the Obama administration on Friday proposed a compromise for faith-based nonprofits that object to cover...
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Associated Press New York Mayor Edward I. Koch waves to onlookers as he arrives in 1987 at New York's Columbia Presbyterian Hospital Neurological Center. Koch died Friday from congestive heart failure, spokesman George Arzt said. He was 88.
Fiesty former mayor Koch dies
NEW YORK — When Ed Koch was mayor, it seemed as if all of New York was being run by a deli counterman. Koch was funny, irritable, opinionated, often rude and prone to yelling. And it worked, for a ...
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Photo of accused abductor released
MIDLAND CITY, Ala. — The standoff between police and a gunman accused of holding a kindergartner hostage in an underground bunker dragged into a fourth day on Friday, as authorities sought to conti...
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Healthier schools: Goodbye candy and greasy snacks
WASHINGTON — Goodbye candy bars and sugary cookies. Hello baked chips and diet sodas. The government for the first time is proposing broad new standards to make sure all foods sold in schools ar...
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Dow ends above 14,000 for 1st time since 2007
NEW YORK — The Dow closed above 14,000 on Friday for the first time in more than five years. It was just a number on a board, but it was enough to raise the hopes of some investors and cause oth...
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NASA marks 10 years since loss of Columbia
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Schoolchildren joined NASA managers and relatives of the lost crew of space shuttle Columbia on Friday to mark the 10th anniversary of the tragedy and remember the seven astr...
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What school foods are in and what foods are out
Some examples of what could be in and out under the rules: What’s in Baked potato chips Granola bars Cereal bars Trail mix Dried fruits Fruit cups Yogurt Whole grain-rich...
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