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...line about the African ore in a speech that Bush was giving in Cincinnati, Ohio. Also that month, CIA officials included the Brits' yellowcake story in their classified 90-page National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq's weapons programs. The CIA said it could neither verify the Niger story nor "confirm whether Iraq succeeded in acquiring uranium ore and/or yellowcake" from two other African nations. The agency also included the State Department's concerns that the allegations of Iraq's seeking yellowcake were "highly dubious"--though that assessment was printed only as a footnote...
Evidence gathered with scientific equipment made the case even stronger. With the help of a small, portable, digital X-ray machine, Fletcher's team captured images of the interior of the bodies from numerous angles and assembled them into complete portraits of the three mummies. That work helped confirm that the young woman was between 19 and 30--the right age for Nefertiti. The older woman was 35 to 45, and the boy was between 12 and 14. "We can't be more precise," concedes Brothwell. "We're dealing with an ancient population that could have had different rates...
...everyone is convinced that the mummy of the young woman is, in fact, Nefertiti. Chemical and DNA tests, which might help confirm, for example, if any of the mummies are related--and prove that the arm and the mummy belong together--were forbidden by the Egyptian government. "It's very difficult to identify a mummy with a particular person, especially without DNA," says Peter Lacovara, curator of ancient Egyptian art at the Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta. "And as for the arm being flexed, a lot can happen when bodies are thrown around the room...
...April 9, an additional 55 have been killed, 15 of them by hostile fire. "The war has not ended, Madam," said Lieut. General David McKiernan last week, when asked at a press conference how many U.S. troops had been injured "since the end of the war." As if to confirm his observation, the Pentagon is delaying planned withdrawals of some of the 150,000 troops stationed in Iraq, including the Army's 3rd Infantry Division, some of whose soldiers have not been home for nine months. Under the original blueprint for a postwar Iraq, says a Pentagon official...
...before playing one game as a pro. But James is not the only teen phenomenon to attract big corporate bucks. The same week Nike settled James' deal, the company reportedly paid $1 million to sign up Ghanaian-born soccer star Freddy Adu, who just turned 14. (Nike will not confirm exact figures.) He has been hailed as the next Renaldo--and maybe even Pele--but for now he's the rising star of the U.S. under-17 team. "Nike builds brands around star athletes," says IMG sports agent Max Eisenbud. "There is a reason they're getting involved with this...