Strands of George Washington's hair found in book

It was a hair-raising historical discovery. A shabby, leather-bound almanac from 1793 sat long-forgotten on a shelf at Union College's library in upstate Schenectady -- until an ­archivist surveying some of the school's collections plucked it from obscurity in December. The book was noteworthy in itself, as it belonged to Philip J. Schuyler, the son...