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9/14 Argentina museum displays Incan mummy - Yahoo! News: http://www.csua.org/u/jiw This mummy is creepy. When Dean started to explain that he needed to make sure that his friend understood everything that he needed, Liz gave up and whispered, "I'm having a little trouble". Dean looked at her quizzically, and then thought that she needed to go to the bathroom and told her to hold it. She then gave up on trying to hide her problem and stood up a bit straighter and gave Dean a quick look at her "growing concerns." Instantly Dean told his friend good-bye and started walking swiftly with Liz under his arm, she walking a little hunched over to try and conceal her chest. Dean whispered, "What are you doing? You trying to get me all excited with those fake.. "They're not fake, Dean...something is happening to me...my breasts are growing..I can actually feel them inflating. What's going on? Wait.. What was in those pills I took?" Dean explained the whole story to her as they tried to make it quickly across the quad. Liz punched him in the arm when he told her about the pills, telling him he should have warned her. Dean tried to plead his case, but it didn't matter now. Liz's chest was near a D-cup now, and she noticed that they seemed to be expanding faster as time passed. She was almost walking with her back hunched at a 45 degree angle now so that she didn't show any curves, looking rather silly. Dean dove his hand into his pocket and retrieved the vial again. He studied it, trying to find anything on it that might help, and noticed some writing on the bottom of the cork. It read: Ego Builders: Take one each night and triple your doubt. Find happiness and all will be as it should. Dean thought carefully and then realized what was happening: Liz must have doubted that her chest attracted men and they were now tripling in size, but she had taken 30 pills, so that meant... "Oh my god!" both Dean and Liz said as they figured out the meaning. Liz started breathing heavy, which wasn't helping conceal her chest. Dean could do nothing but continue walking faster towards Liz's place. |
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www.csua.org/u/jiw -> news.yahoo.com/s/ap/argentina_mummy;_ylt=AqPgY7aknGkwz.tKBHc22trlWMcF AP Argentina museum displays Incan mummy By FEDERICO ESCHER, Associated Press Writer Fri Sep 7, 8:18 PM ET SALTA, Argentina - Museumgoers gasped Thursday at the well-preserved mummy of an Inca maiden which is on display for the first time, a serene gaze etched on her face hundreds of years ago when she froze to death in the Andes. Hundreds of people packed a museum in Salta, Argentina, to see "la Doncella" -- Spanish for "the Maiden" -- a 15-year-old girl whose remains were found in 1999 in an icy pit on Llullaillaco volcano, along with a 6-year-old girl and a 7-year-old boy. Scientists believe the so-called Children of Llullaillaco were sacrificed more than 500 years ago in a ceremony marking the annual corn harvest. Dressed in fine clothes and given corn alcohol to put them to sleep, the victims were then left to die at an elevation of 22,080 feet. "Just this morning we have had more than 700 people come see the exhibit, and we had hundreds yesterday when it opened," said High Mountain Archaeological Museum director Gabriel Miremont. The mummy is kept in a chamber that pumps chilled air through a low-oxygen atmosphere, simulating the subfreezing conditions where it was found. The other two children are being studied and not on display. Seated with her legs bent and her arms resting on her stomach, the Maiden's remains are still adorned with a gray shawl and bone and metal ornaments. Scientists say her face was daubed with red pigment and around her mouth they found flecks of coca leaf, which is chewed by highland Indians to blunt the effects of altitude. The Children of Llullaillaco were found at the highest elevation ever discovered for sacrificial victims of the former Inca empire, which ran along the Andes from present-day northern Argentina to Peru. Several Indian groups waged a losing campaign to prevent the remains from going on display, arguing that the mummies should be buried or at least kept from public view. The exhibit is a "great mistake," said Miguel Suarez, a representative of the Calchaquies valley tribes in and around Salta. The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press. |