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Cops & Doughnuts

Everyone knows that cops love doughnuts. Now, nine policemen in Clare, Mich., have taken that affection to a new level. When the Clare City Bakery was on the verge of closing after 113 years, the officers bought the establishment and rechristened it Cops & Doughnuts. In addition to the store’s baked goods, the new owners are offering mugs and T-shirts with such mottoes as “Handcuffs and Cream Puffs” and “You Have the Right to Remain Glazed.” “We’re trying to do what we can to help the community,” said Officer Al White, “and have fun doing it.”

Art historians discover self-portrait of Michelangelo

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A tiny self-portrait of Michelangelo has been discovered in his last painting, The Crucifixion of Saint Peter. Art historians had long puzzled over the identity of a mysterious figure in the upper left-hand corner of the fresco, which was created in the Vatican’s Pauline Chapel between 1545 and 1550. After painstaking comparisons with other depictions of Michelangelo, including his only other apparent self-portrait, scholars determined it was the master himself. The clincher was a blue turban, which was typically worn by Renaissance sculptors as a protection against dust. Maurizio De Luca, the Vatican’s head of paintings restoration, called the finding “extraordinary and moving.”

Surgeons set record with eight-way kidney transplant

Surgeons have successfully completed a record-setting eight-way kidney transplant involving 16 people in four states. So-called domino transplants, involving chains of individuals who are willing to donate kidneys, are now commonplace. But the recent effort, which took place over three weeks in Baltimore, Oklahoma City, St. Louis, and Detroit, was unprecedented in its number and complexity. All eight recipients are doing fine. “We hope this creates a movement that encourages other transplant centers to adopt the model we used,” said Robert Montgomery, chief transplant surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where nine of the surgeries took place.