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Show DAILY Thursday, June 12. 2008 HERALD AS FAST FACT Morning Briefing e According to data gathered by a probe in 2003, the universe is made up of 4 percent ordinary matter, 23 percent dark matter and 73 percent dark energy. deep-spac- Source: Time Almanac 2004 Compiled from Daily Herald wire sendees The The WORLD NATION i Ms 1 1 I TOM KELLY IVWest Chester Daily Local News 4 Electric storm . ,7 - . Lightning streaks through the skies over the Silvi Concrete factory in Downingtown, Pa. For more on the heavy storms that have hit the U.S. this week, see Page A10. i East Coast heat wave claims 17 lives The PHILADELPHIA East Coast heat wave has claimed the lives of 17 people, and most of the victims were elderly. The Philadelphia medical examiner's office says eight d people died of causes in the four days of ,, heat-relate- scorching temperatures. Six others died in New York City and two died in man Maryland. A also died of sunstroke in the Philadelphia suburb of Pa., while sunbathing. The Philadelphia victims ranged in age from 65 to 95. Five of the six people who died in New York were over 70 and were found in their Pott-stow- homes. One of the two men who died Maryland collapsed after using a push lawnmower in the heat. The region suffered through temperatures in the high 90s from Saturday the niche product grows. McAfee, who was among the first in California to sell raw milk on a large scale, brushed off the investigation: "When you're a pioneer, you have to expect to take a few arrows." states prohibit Twenty-twsales of raw milk for human consumption, and the rest allow it within their borders. o The FDA bans sales. cross-bord- er Florida man pleads guilty in threat case' MIAMI A Florida man who had an arsenal of weapons has pleaded guilty to a federal charge of threatening on the Internet to stage a Virmassacre. ginia Tech-typUnder a plea deal ane to be so clumpy that it failed to slide down a chute into the oven. The science team repeatedly tried breaking up the clods by shaking the instrument, called the Thermal and Evolved-Ga- s Analyzer. After six failures, the team at the University of Arizona and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge made one last effort, Boynton said. When the shaking terminated abruptly, the team thought the machine had failed. Then they found out it had stopped shaking because the oven was full. As the scientists in Tucson, Ariz., cheered the result, Boynton cued up the old disco tune "(Shake, Shake, Shake) Shake Your Booty" and started swaying to the music. ! . i 'Oil i - r w, I V ) - m v ..4"'-l-- ; - S. .. . r - i. ; r" jj"" AJIT Homeward bound SOLANKIAssociated Press shepherd returns home along a highway nearLimbadi, India, on Wednesday. that moves towards greener pastures during dry summer months and returns home with the onset of monsoon. A semi-nomad- The shepherd is part of a community L.A. reservoir covered nounced Wednesday, Calin Chi Wong of Homewith balls for shade stead would avoid prison Huntime. But Wong would have LOS ANGELES to forfeit all his guns to the dreds of thousands of shim-- . government, serve five years' mering black plastic balls were dumped into one of the probation and perform 150 hours of community service. through Tuesday. city's last open-ai- r reservoirs A federal judge must still to prevent a sunlight fueled decide whether to accept the chemical reaction that can Health officials deal. The maximum sentence harm the water supply. crackdown on Workers on Monday unWong could face is five years.. unpasteurized milk The FBI says Wong made leashed 400,000 of the hollow, SAN FRANCISCO "shade balls" down a Dairy the threats in March through owner Mark McAfee started an Internet chat room used by slope to cover the surface of selling raw milk in 2000, mar- gun enthusiasts. Agents found the Ivanhoe Reservoir, which assault weapons, handguns keting it to customers who provides water to parts of and thousands of rounds of believe it contains beneficial downtown, central and south ammunition at his home. microbes that treat everyLos Angeles. Earlier this year, the Los thing from asthma to autism. The unpasteurized milk Phoenix Lander finally Angeles Department of Water and Power drained two swiftly caught on as part of gets cooking of its six remaining open-ai- r the growing natural food h A movement. But the Food and reservoirs because a rare attempt to reacshake a sample of Martian sunlight Drug Administration considsoil into an oven on NASA's tion tainted the water with ers McAfee a snake oil salesPhoenix lander succeeded man and recently launched bromate, a cancer-causin- g chemical. The amounts were an investigation into whether Wednesday, clearing the small and didn't violate fedhis dairy illegally shipped raw way for tests to determine eral water regulations, but milk across state lines. The whether the northern plains of Mars may once have been the water was dumped as a agency even tried to recruit habitable. one of his employees to seprecaution. "The group went up in The plastic spheres are "a cretly record conversations cost effective method of crewith him. cheers; I got a standing ovaThe case against McAfee is tion," said William Boynton, ating shade without elaborate the lead scientist for the vital construction, parts, labor or part of a crackdown on raw science instrument that will milk by government health maintenance," the departbake the Martian sample in officials who are concerned ment said in a statement. e The balls are a temporary a search for organic comabout the spread of fix while the city completes illnesses. Lawmakers pounds. Last week, the lander's an underground water storand law enforcement agencies are stepping up efforts to robotic arm dumped a pile of age project to replace the dirt on top of one of its eight reservoirs within open-ai- r keep unpasteurized milk out of reach, even as demand for tiny ovens. But the soil proved several years. Secret gov't files on terror found on train Secret governLONDON ment documents on and Iraq were left on a commuter train, prompting a major police investigation into the latest in a series of embarrassing security breaches, British officials said Wednesday. The documents belonged to a senior intelligence official in the Cabinet office and were found by a passenger on a London commuter train Tuesday. The envelope was then passed to the British Broadcasting Corp. Seven pages stamped "UK Top Secret" included the latest government intelligence -- assessment on and Iraq's security forces, the BBC said. The documents also were stamped "for UKUSCanadian and Australian eyes only." The first page was dated June 5, the BBC reported. Two of the assessments were made by the British govern- last-ditc- ship area with stone seats separated from a living area that had a long tunnel leading to a source of water. He said the early Christians hid there from pledges $1 0B for Afghanistan help U.S. PARI S The Bush administration wants to spend about $10 billion for development persecution. and related aid to Afghanistan PM apologizes to over two years, an amount roughly on par with recent native Canadians U.S. donations and sure to be Prime Minister the single-largeOTTAWA pledge at an international fundraising conStephen Harper is publicly ' ference. apologizing to native CanadiThe money is a mix of what ans who were taken from their families and forced to attend Congress has already apschools aimed at proved and what the administration is still seeking. assimilating them. Afghan leaders hope to Harper says the treatment of children at the schools is a sad raise $15 billion to $20 billion in immediate help for their chapter in Canadian history. From the 19th century until desperately poor, the 1970s, more than 150,000 nation. However, they face wide aboriginal children were red quired to attend skepticism that the Kabul government is up to the task of Christian schools as part of a program to assimilate them seeing that the money is not into Canadian society. squandered. st state-funde- d war-scarr- state-funde- I ment's Joint Intelligence Committee. The report on Iraq was commissioned by the Ministry of Defence. The report was commissioned by the Foreign and the Home Offices. food-born- Ancient cave uncovered in Jordan ArAMMAN, Jordan chaeologists in Jordan have discovered a cave underneath one of the world's oldest churches and say it may have been an even more ancient site of Christian worship. But outside experts expressed caution about the claim. r Archaeologist head of the Rihab Center for Archaeological Studies, said this week that the cave was unearthed in the northern Jordanian city of Rihab after three months of excavation and shows evidence of early Christian rituals. The cave is under St. Abdel-Qade- ' ;J4 I jr I 1 it IRFAN Department of Water and Power worker Manuel Martinez empties balls in the Ivanhoe Reservoir in Los Angeles on Monday. 4 KHANLos Angeles Times out a bale of black plastic George's Church, which some believe was built in the year 230, though the date is widely disputed. That would make it one of the oldest churches in the world, along with one unearthed in the Jordanian southern port of Aqaba in 1998 and another in Israel discovered in 2005. said there was evidence that the underground cave was used as a church by 70 disciples of Jesus in the first century after Christ's death, which would make it the oldest Christian site of worship in the world. He described a circular wor - RAVI Nepal's deposed King Gyanendra leave the Narayanhiti palace Wednesday. in MANADHARAssociated Press left and Queen Komal Kathmandu, Nepal, on Deposed Nepalese king leaves palace KATMANDU, Nepal Nepal's deposed king has left the royal palace for the last time but has no plans to leave the Himalayan country. Former King Gyanendra says he wants to stay to "help establish peace" as the country moves from a monarchy to a republic. Hundreds of people came to see Gyanendra leave Katmandu's royal palace Wednesday night. His depar-- ' ture marks the end of the final chapter of the world's last Hindu monarchy. Nepal was declared a republic last month after elections that saw the country's former .communist rebels win the most seats in a special assembly charged with rewriting the constitution. |