While many of his competitors are working on their tan lines in Tucson and Tenerife, Vande Velde will ride into January in the suburbs of his hometown Chicago.

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The handwriting- and electronic-analysis experts said they found markings left by clips Mr. Ceglia used to hang the document in the sun, which the motion likened to "the tan lines caused by a swimsuit, " Facebook alleged.

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Vaughn is in his 60s, with silver hair that hangs below his shoulders, a wiry white goatee, a slight, tan frame on which hangs naught but muscle, and squint-lines trenched around clear, pale blue eyes.

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