The guided missile cruiser USS Normandy, a veteran of Operation Desert Storm, has been based in New York for four years and will be open for public tours.

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The young Romanian immigrant hid the message "June 6 Invasion: Normandy" inside a strand of DNA. "It creates a new branch that the field can expand into, " Risco said.

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