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...fearsome mummy that spawned a legendary curse and a generation of horror movies turns out to have been a slender, buck-toothed teenager who probably died after a serious accident. A team of Egyptian scientists recently put King Tutankhamen through a medical scanner, generating 1,700 highly detailed three-dimensional images of the boy king's remains. Using an exact model of Tut's skull, three forensic teams then reconstructed the face behind the famous golden mask. The process is documented in a National Geographic Channel special, King Tut's Final Secrets, airing May 29. The images also debunk...
...international diplomacy; his decision in 2003 to give up on a second U.N. resolution authorizing force in Iraq speaks to that readiness. His “cowboy diplomacy,” however, seems to be working. Iraq has held free elections. Syria has removed its occupying force from Lebanon. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has pledged to hold multi-party elections in the near future. And last week, Bush took advantage of his trip to Eastern Europe to spead his pro-democracy message there. In the first year of his second term, America’s 43rd president appears to have...
...Egyptians are deeply worried about the latest outbreak of violence. "Why is this happening again?" asked Mahmoud, a distraught waiter at a restaurant near the scene of one of Saturday's two attacks. "These killers have no brains at all. Look at what they are doing to the country." Some Egyptians take comfort in the belief that the perpetrators of the recent attacks appear to have been poorly-organized amateurs with a limited capacity for mayhem. The background and motives of the attackers remain fuzzy, and it is not known whether they were attempting to exploit the growing political tension...
...pursuit of a twenty-something terror suspect, Ehab Yousri Yassin, when he jumped off an overpass in central Cairo and detonated his bomb. The homemade device, apparently patched together with explosive powder from fireworks and a few handfuls of nails, decapitated the bomber and injured several foreign tourists and Egyptian passersby. The police believe that the symbol-rich site of Yassin's attack - a central square facing Mubarak's ruling National Democratic Party headquarters, the famed Egyptian Museum that contains the treasure of Tutankhamen and a skyscraper hotel named for Egypt's most powerful ancient pharaoh, Ramses - was chosen...
...knitting socks?"?he guided the Israeli air force, a unit he built and commanded from 1958 to 1966, to its rapid, preemptive victory in the six-day Arab-Israeli war. Later, as an ardent peace advocate, he met with Palestinians, vocally criticized hardliners and, through his rapport with then-Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, helped cement that country's historic 1979 peace agreement with Israel...