Sue in the Associated Press! Happy Endings!

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Sue the dinosaur to keep its name
    CHICAGO (AP) _ A dinosaur named Sue will keep its name, despite a
contest among elementary school children to rename the 65
million-year-old
Tyrannosaurus rex.
    Sue, the most complete T. rex fossil ever found, will not be called
Dakota, as the contest winner suggested, the Field Museum decided on
Wednesday.
    The fossil was originally named for Susan Hendrickson, who
discovered
it near Faith, S.D., in 1990 while working for the Black Hills
Institute, a
commercial fossile dealer.
    The federal government seized the fossil in 1992, claiming the
institute failed to get a federal permit to dig on a South Dakota
rancher's
land.
    The museum bought the fossil at auction for $8.4 million in October.
The money for the purchase, bankrolled by McDonald's and Disney
corporations, went to the rancher. The institute got nothing, but said
it
still held the rights to the Sue name.
    After the museum started a contest among schoolchildren to choose a
new
name, the institute dropped its claim to the name Sue.
    Contest winners still will be awarded the grand prizes of computer
systems and software, museum officials said. The 100 runners-up will get
dinosaur T-shirts.
    
    
AP-ES-04-16-98 1002EDT
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