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Show DAILY Thursday, March 8. 2007 HERALD AS MON&WOELD Awaiting NASA fires astronaut charged time daylight-savin- g with attempted kidnapping Easternmost point ofUSrhappyto get the extra sun Uanne Hart LOS Clarke Canfield THE ASSOCIATED PRESS As the LUBEC, Maine easternmost point in the United States, Lubec gets some of the earliest sunrises in America. But it also gets some of the most depressingly early sunsets, with the sun slipping below the horizon before 4 p.m. for weeks on end in early 1 winter. Which is why, after months rf of leaving work and eating dinner in dreary darkness, the people of Lubec are eagerly awaiting the arrival of daylight saving time MICHAEL C. YORKAssociated Press this year. strikes of order the Head West By Congress, dayMorning sunlight Quoddy Lighthouse, Lubec, Maine, at 6:18 a.m. on light saving time will start on Wednesday. As the easternmost point in the United States, Lubec gets some of the earliest March 11, three weeks early. sunrises in America. Across the country, the sun will set an hour later. In Lubec, that will be 6:29 p.m. bridge over Lubec Narrows Shorter days for northern It can't happen soon enough on Campobello Island, New The northernmost section of the United States gets the least amount for Jed Coggins, who said he Brunswick, Canadians are in of daylight In Lubec, Maine, the shortest day of the year, Dec. 21 , will use the extra sunlight to the Atlantic time zone. Over has just 8 hours and 48 minutes of daylight. there, just a few hundred yards dig clams, take walks or simLength of the shortest day of ply take in the sua away, the sun sets an hour the year, by region 3 "It later than in Lubec, which is in signals the start of spring in my mind, and I need it," 8 hours 4 minutes the Eastern time zone. Erik Lookabaugh, owner CANADA Coggins, 78, said at McFad-den'- s of Lubec Hardware, said that Variety store and deli. d Lubec, situated a grim 180 8 hnttro AA mini ifAO daylight saving should be miles northeast of Finland, or Maine should join the Atlantic time zone, something has seen brighter days, back when fish were plentiful and the Legislature considered do; K . r fill! ,VMa fish plants were bustling. Nowing two years ago. "It's a psychological boost," adays, its main drag is mostly -empty storefronts. Just a few 48 minutes Lookabaugh said. "The early m sunsets are extreme up here." fishing boats are moored in the harbor. The nearest traffic In 2005, Congress decided to light and movie theater are 50 expand daylight saving time in miles away. the hope that more daylight in Because Lubec is so far the evening will reduce energy north and east, from consumption. '0 hours 35 minutes Because Lubec is situated to early January the sun goes down on the town's AP so far east within the Eastern SOURCE: U.S. Naval Observatory famous candy striped lighttime zone, the town is often the house before many of its 1,600 Dec 21, has just 8 hours and 48 shop. "If you work all day, the first place in America to see inhabitants get out of work minutes of daylight. worst part is getting off work the rays of the rising sun. The Those early sunsets can or get home from school. The earliest sunrise of the year is and it's still dark," she said. , in at 4:41 a.m. The earliest sunset is the second make Maine residents crazy, "I'm one of those people who need more daylight.'' week of December, at 3:47 p.m. Betsy Anderson joked at longest day tops 15 12 hours of The shortest day of the year, Broomstick Creations gift To the east, just across the daylight. 1 earlier-than-usu- al states year-roun- f XrJ xCY X M mid-June- Golden Ripe Bananas 4 Lisa Marie Nowak on her ankle. In Florida, the state attorney general's office on Monday released a statement to police writfrom Oefelein and ten to Oefelein from his girlfriend, Air Force Capt. Colleen Shipman, while he was orbiting the Earth during a shuttle mission last December . Oefelein's statement offered confirmation from one of the principals that he and Nowak were romantically involved. Nowak told police after her arrest that the two had "more than a working relationship but less than a romantic relationship." Oefelein told police that after a two- - or three-yerelationship, he and Nowak split around January so that he could date Shipman. He determined. Nowak, a 4Syear-ol-d moth- thought it was an amicable er of three, is accused of parting. One the girlfriend of Shipman sent to Oefelein in the space shuttle space shuttle pilot Cmdr. William A. Oefelein after driving said "Will have to control myself when I see you. First urge to the airport from Houston will be to rip your clothes off, wearing an astronaut diaper so she would not have to stop throw you on the ground and her vehicle. After the alleged love the hell out of you." "You write such good notes!! attack, police found a BB gun, steel mallet, knife and rubber You are the best!! I love you," wrote Oefelein in response. tubing in Nowak's car. Police seized the notes from Nowak pleaded not guilty to attempted kidnapping and Nowak's car after her arrest. They had been downloaded burglary with assault, and from a computer in Oefelein's was released on bail. She returned to her Houston home Houston apartment, to which Nowak had a key. wearing a monitoring device ar pepper-s- praying L ilipa Toraatoe per lb. X.'X";. TIMES HOUSTON Astronaut Lisa Nowak, charged with attempted kidnapping after confronting a rival for another astronaut's affections at an Orlando, Fla., airport last month, was fired by NASA on Wednesday. She is the first astronaut dismissed by the space agency. NASA's decision does not reflect the agency's belief in her guilt or innocence, spokesman James Hartsfield said. "The primary reason for the termination is we don't have the administrative means to deal with the criminal charges against her," he said While most NASA employees are civil servants, Nowak is a U.S. Navy officer on assignment to the space agency. In a comparable situation involving a NASA civil servant, agency officials would have the option of putting the employee on leave or indefinite suspension until criminal charges were resolved. But, Hartsfield said, "She is not subject to administrative action by NASA." Nowak, a captain, will report in April to the Naval Air Training Command in Pensacola, Ha., Navy spokesman Lt. Justin Cole said. Her new duties have not yet been ... V 3 ANGELES While supplies last per lb. Large Fuji Apples . a V "Fresh Gold. Pineapple V" pie, 5 a V! . . per lb. While supplies last -- While supplies last A m Fresh Eiipress:, Tossed Salad r each While supplies last While supplies last u 0 i 3 |