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Penn, Princeton Apologize for Treatment of MOVE Bombing Victim's Remains

The University of Pennsylvania apologized this week for what it described as the “insensitive, unprofessional and unacceptable” treatment of human remains from the 1985 police bombing of the MOVE house in Philadelphia. Earlier this month, it was revealed that two bones from a young, still unidentified victim of the bombing had been housed for decades in the Penn Museum. Also this week, Princeton University apologized for its part in the case, including allowing the victim's remains to be used as teaching tools for an online course created at Princeton and offered through Coursera.
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