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PHILADELPHIA -- Trouble sleeping? Biting those fingernails? Maya apocalypse worries keeping you up at night? Well, you can relax. Anyone still sweating a Dec. 21, 2012 winter solstice End of the World courtesy of the ancient Maya calendar, may want to consider a trip here, to the storied Penn Museum. Opening this weekend, the " Maya 2012: Lords of Time" exhibition comes complete with panels debunking all sorts of buncombe about the Maya, from doomsday calendar predictions to their "disappearance." "The reality about the Maya is far more interesting than any of the stories out there about them," says curator and archeologist Loa Traxler of the University of Pennsylvania. "There are still 7 million Maya people living in the world today. So today we can learn from the descendants of the classic Maya about their cultural beliefs and inheritance," Traxler says. Starting, the exhibit notes, with the absence of any expectations of the world ending. Rather than springing...