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Prized mushroom collection returns to China

November 7, 2009 By The Associated Press DAVID WIVELL (Associated Press Writer)

BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese scholar persecuted during the Cultural Revolution for smuggling a rare collection of mushrooms out of China before World War II was honored Saturday when the collection was returned more than 70 years later.

At a ceremony at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Cornell University President David Skorton handed over the collection that had been meticulously gathered by...

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