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Among the stranger pursuits of science these days is the effort to exhume dead celebrities. Meriwether Lewis, of the pair of famous Northwest explorers, is the latest to be marked for elevation. He joins a lengthening list that includes President Zachary Taylor, the parents of Lizzie Borden, John Wilkes Booth, Jesse James, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Marilyn Monroe and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lion...
...reason offered for unearthing these notables is to determine how they died, or if they were as dead as they were originally said to be. Forensic experts wanted to exhume President Taylor to discover if he was poisoned, and Booth and James to see if in fact they occupied the graves that were assigned to them. One assumes that in the case of the Bordens someone wanted to count the number of whacks...
John Wilkes Booth has become a candidate for unearthing because 22 of his descendants claim that an innocent man was gunned down by soldiers and that Booth was permitted to escape. That would suggest a government plot to kill Lincoln. The crackpot notion that Booth did not shout, "Sic semper tyrannis" after the shooting, but rather "Sic semper tyrannosaurus," thus suggesting that he was buried under the American Museum of Natural History, has been dismissed out of hand...
...asking the groups to come up with an idea for a booth, an issue that's most important to them as a group," Christofferson said. "The Harvard Democrats might talk about the minimum wage or the Hillel might talk about Jewish involvement in politics. There have been a whole range of groups invited...
...with natural resources. Indeed, the Interstate City is an eminently comfortable place in which to live, and houses on pleasant, leafy streets can be found, at relatively low prices, within a 10-minute drive of downtown. Hills, lakes and mountains are only 25 minutes away, and, at a phone booth, a flyer advertising for a roommate states matter-of-factly, WANTED: MALE TO SHARE RUSTIC 75-ACRE FARM W/STABLE AND LAKES...