Help Mr. Wizard Wins Calaveras Jumping Frog Jubilee
In Calaveras County California Gregg Jaschek wins $500 after Help Mr Wizard leaps 19 feet 3 inches in three jumps to top 72 finalists. Giants from Cameroon falter with 3-pounders too big for the 9 inch pad. crowd of 6000 attends 62nd annual event sparked by controversy.
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Summer Squall Wins Preakness in Fastest Stretch Run
Pimlico drama ends with Summer Squall beating Unbridled as groom Willie Woods calls the moment the greatest of his life. Stable head Cot Campbell plans flight to Churchill Downs with routine workouts and a fall campaign starting in August.
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Gunman's Spree Prompts Curfew in Palestine
Israel imposed a curfew on more than a million Palestinians after a distraught Israeli gunman killed seven Gaza laborers near Tel Aviv, triggering riots that left seven Arabs dead and many injured. Army chief warned residents to stay home as reinforcements rush to Gaza and West Bank towns Hebron and Nablus.
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Bush presses for European force cut despite setbacks
President Bush vows to push for a 35 nation Europe wide conventional force reduction while citing progress in chemical weapons and strategic nuclear limits. He cites a stalled troop and tank deal but remains hopeful the agreement will be signed by year end, with talks in Moscow and a Washington summit ahead.
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First Light Image Reveals Double Star
GREENBELT Md The first Hubble Space Telescope photo sequence intended as an engineering test surprised scientists by revealing a double star. The inaugural images taken 381 miles above Earth showed crisp stars, surpassing ground based pictures and prompting praise from James Westphal and NASA officials who called the results two times better than expected.
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Study Links Secondhand Smoke to Disease in Non Smokers
A study presented by Stan Glantz at the World Conference on Lung Health finds that exposure to others’ smoke raises non smokers’ risk of heart disease up to 30 percent. He notes newer research strengthens the link since the 1986 Surgeon General report.
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