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...woven mat coated with a mixture of wax, resin and honey. The mummy's gold crown and breastplate were engraved with the cuneiform writing used in ancient Mesopotamia and an image of Ahura-Mazda, the god of Zoroastrianism associated with ancient Persia. Encased in a heavy wood coffin, it was placed in what initially appeared to be a stone sarcophagus (it turned out to be made of grains of opaque white glass). Astounded by the find, police loaded the mummy into the van and jounced along dusty back roads on a 24-hour ride home to Karachi...
Next door, 14-year-old Jaime Adriano is waiting, too. He was only two months old when his mother abandoned him, overwhelmed by the prospect of raising an Amerasian child on her own. Jaime lives with a foster family, sleeping in a coffin-sized bedroom where he keeps his hip-hop clothes and prized hair gel. Neighbors whisper that his foster father beats him, but there is nowhere for the 14-year-old boy to go. School is out for the former honor-roll student: his foster father recently lost his job and Jaime's $10 tuition was the first...
With the Crimson up 10-5 almost eleven minutes into the second period, Leimkuhler converted a pass from senior Lauren Corkery to kick off the six-goal run. Junior Lizzie Frisbie added a free-position strike, and Harper put the nail in the coffin with another goal...
...Tigers put the final nail into the Crimson coffin with a string of seven goals to open the second half of the game...
With the bases full, Crusius blasted a grand slam out of the park, putting the nail in the coffin...