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People attend the unveiling of a replica Chinese terra cotta saddle horse at the Desert Research Institute in Las Vegas Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. Scientists Judith Chow and John Watson of the institute worked with Chinese scientists to help study ways to preserve the famous terra cotta warriors unearthed in China. (John Locher/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

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