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AP NEW YORK -- The mystery began with a heart attack, a man with a past, and a bag of money that federal authorities now want to keep.In August, a retired Teamster from Boston stepped off an Amtrak train in New York City and collapsed on the platform at Pennsylvania Station. As medics tried to revive him, police searched his backpack for identification. Inside, they found the stuff that Law Order episodes are made of: $179,980 in cash, bundled with rubber bands and tuc
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General Douglas MacArthur once famously quipped, Old soldiers never die; they just fade away. Obsolete military equipment should be so lucky. While most outdated systems are simply scrapped, a lucky few find new purpose after their time in service鈥攍ike the Martin JRM Mars, a coastal patrol bomber that now demolishes wildfires instead of invading armies. At the outset of WWII, the US had yet to commit troops to the Allied effort but the American War Machine was already picking up steam. In 1938, the Navy commissioned the Glenn L. Martin C
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