Heat wave tightens grip on South with deaths in Tennessee
Southern heat continues as Memphis hits 100 degrees for a fifth straight day and Tennessee heat related deaths reach five. In New Jersey Buddhist followers release hundreds of eels frogs and turtles into the Passaic River without permits, risking fines up to $1000 as DEP notes cleanup progress and potential survival chances for the released wildlife.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee
Mississippi
Memphis
Shelby County
Karen Chancellor
Paterson
N.J
Passaic
State Department of Environmental Protection
Amitabha
DEP
Mark Boriek
Hastert Plans Retirement At End Of Term
U S Congressman Dennis Hastert of Illinois plans to retire at the end of his current term. A formal announcement was planned for Friday. His departure would trigger a party scramble for the House seat he has held since 1986 and recently was Speaker.
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Washington
Dennis Hastert
Illinois
Hastert
GOP
House
Space teacher Barbara Morgan teaches students from orbit
Barbara Morgan, Christa McAuliffe's backup, conducted her first education session from space aboard the shuttle Discovery, speaking to Boise Idaho pupils and describing life in zero gravity while demonstrating space drinking and floating objects.
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Ashellina Benson
Discovery Center of Idaho
Boise
Idaho
Barbara Morgan
Cape Canaveral
Fila
Orbit
Christa McAuliffe
Morgan
McAuliffe
Discovery Center
Diet links Western eating to colon cancer recurrence
A Dana-Farber study in JAMA ties a Western diet rich in red meat fats and refined grains to a 3.25 fold higher recurrence risk among colon cancer survivors. The prudent diet high in fish poultry fruits and vegetables shows lower recurrence risk, with 154000 new cases and 52000 deaths annually in the United States.
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Los Angeles Times
Jeffrey Meyerhardt
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Boston
Journal of the American Med
Lily Lai
City of Hope Medical Center
Duarte
Calif
United States
Bombings and assaults kill hundreds across Iraq
Four coordinated bombings strike Yazidi communities in northwestern Iraq killing at least 175 and wounding about 200. Attacks disrupt Baghdad with a bridge bombing and Oil Ministry raid as U S troops report nine deaths including a Chinook crash and others from combat in Ninevah and near Taqaddum.
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Baghdad
Iraq
Sadr
Ing
Oil Ministry
U.S
Taqaddum
Ninevah
Train blast injures 60 on Nevsky Express near Novgorod
Russian investigators opened a terrorism inquiry after a homemade bomb ripped a three foot rail gap near Novgorod as the Nevsky Express derailed from Moscow to St Petersburg. The train with 251 aboard hit a bridge, traveling at 80 mph, and many were injured.
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Moscow
St. Petersburg
Novgorod
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