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...have all been bombed lately. Since January alone, 17 policemen have been murdered, and a bounty of 200,000 baht ($5,000) has been offered up by a shady Muslim group to encourage further cop killings. And nobody knows why. "It's creepy," says Sergeant Marohsae Moohanan of Sungai Padi Station near Thailand's border with Malaysia. Earlier this month, two members of his patrol were shot dead in an ambush just outside town. One minute, he and his partners were cruising on motorcycles toward an elementary school; the next, they were getting fired at by strangers who then vanished...
...Padi made the return trip to MGH last Tuesdayprotected by a bubble apparatus designed totransport nuclear war victims...
Schnor attributed Padi's youthful condition tothe good shape he was in even before therestorations...
...Smith Museum, Padi was also reunitedwith his outer coffin, which was lost in the late19th century. The coffin ultimately turned up atthe Smith Museum where researchers recentlydiscovered that it belonged to the MGH mummy...
During the the first four weeks of the exhibit,more than 20,000 fans visited Padi, whomresearchers have determined was a stone cutter inthe sixth century B.C. Although the number ofvisitors slacked off slightly later on during theexhibit, museum officials remained surprised atthe enthusiastic public response, Schnorr said...