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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 2002
Page
3
Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation commit 100 million dollars to India’s AIDS battle. The grant seeks to empower women to protect themselves from unsafe partners and is the foundation’s largest country grant to combat the virus.
AP documents show major and regional airlines did not consistently enforce FAA security guidelines that barred box cutters at checkpoints before the 2001 attacks. The 1994 manual listed box cutters as prohibited items, though FAA rules then allowed blades under four inches. Officials cite industry and legal debates over responsibility.
The AP reports violent storms and tornadoes claiming 16 lives in Tennessee, 12 in Alabama, five in Ohio, and one each in Mississippi and Pennsylvania. In Mossy Grove, Tennessee, seven people died and 40 remain missing or unaccounted as crews clear debris. In Carbon Hill, Alabama, seven others perished and a school building was destroyed.
Scientists at the National Solar Observatory in Sunspot New Mexico report the first observed instance of solar flares erupting nearly at the same time on opposite sides of the sun. The October 31 event involved massive hydrogen eruptions with explosive power. Researchers cite magnetic fields as a possible trigger but lack enough data for a theory.
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