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Historic aircraft carrier Intrepid out of water for body makeover By PAT MILTON Associated Press Writer   NEW YORK (AP) -- The World War II aircraft carrier USS Intrepid is coming out of the water for its full-body makeover and a little "boatox."The war veteran turned floating military museum was to be placed Tuesday in dry dock, where it will be perched on 212 custom-made pine blocks while crews scrape and power-wash its salt and weather corroded keel, then paint it the traditional battleship gray.It took a complex engineering feat just to have the blocks milled to mimic each...