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The great blackout of 2003 should not have been possible, and power officials did not believe it could happen before it did. Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Radio One stated that the problem began with a disruption at a nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania, while President Bush speculated that the cause might have been a lightning strike at a power plant in New York. Power officials are saying that the blackout began somewhere in the midwest, probably Ohio. We’ve discovered that a U.S. soldier was arrested a year ago when we was caught trying to plant an explosive at a nuclear power plant in Florida, an action that would likely have led to a similar collapse in another part of the power grid.
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On unknowncountry, we know that summer in Europe has been hell this year. Now reader Susan McCulloch gives us a report on the heat wave in Germany. Is this a glimpse of the future for all of us? And don’t miss Whitley’s Journal about how we can beat the heat.

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If you’re having trouble catching fish, the Missouri River is the place to go, because the fish jump right into your boat, all by themselves. Fisherman Duane Chapman simply takes his boat out on the river and waits, then cries, “Here they come. Look out!”

KMBC’s Jeremy Hubbard reports seeing fish jumping, flipping and flopping right into boats. They come so thick and fast, you have to duck to avoid being hit. “I’ve been hit in the head, hit in the side of the neck,” says Chapman. “One fellow?had a rib separated, another fellow got hit in the head and lost a tooth.”
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Fragments of a meteorite narrowly missed hitting 10-year-old Anthony Elliss-Galati in Perth, Australia, then smashed into his driveway. Another meteorite made a crater in a parking lot near Detroit, but no one saw it because they’d all left work when it hit. Since the lot was empty, it didn’t hit anyone’s car (or anyone’s head).

Anthony’s mother says, "I heard something hit the [pavement] and then Anthony came inside and said there were rocks coming out of the sky. He then handed me a piece and it didn’t look like a normal rock?it was dull on the inside and silver on the outside and looked as if it had melted. Anthony said he had seen it coming across the park and had to duck down behind my car to avoid being hit by it."
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