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moon," Cooke said. "The thing is probably a yard across. We basically have (had) a boulder enter the atmosphere over the northeast."
• He noted that the meteor was widely seen, with more than 350 reports on the website of the American Meteor Society alone.
• "If you have something this bright carry over that heavily populated area, a lot of people are going to see it," he said. "It occurred around 8 tonight, there were a lot of people out, and you've got all those big cities out there."
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BracketRacket: Keeping hope alive in the NCAAs, even on the occasional bad hair day
• Welcome back to BracketRacket, the one-stop shopping place for all your NCAA tournament needs.
• Today, we throw down, challenge follicles, solve a Rubik's Cube and kiss the rim, all without breaking a sweat, even after batting the ball around with tennis star and Harvard dropout James Blake. We also refer you to a chilling list of celebrity alumni evil twins.
• But before any of it, we defy long odds.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
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• Today is Saturday, March 23, the 82nd day of 2013. There are 283 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On March 23, 1913, five days of heavy rain began falling in the Ohio River Valley; Dayton, Ohio, saw catastrophic flooding as the rising Great Miami River breached its levees. Hundreds of deaths in the region were blamed on the weather.
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• On this date:
• In 1775, Patrick Henry delivered an address to the Virginia Provincial Convention in which he is said to have declared, "Give me liberty, or give me death!"
• In 1792, Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 94 in G Major (the "Surprise" symphony) had its first public performance in London.
• In 1806, explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, having reached the Pa (Continued on page 35)
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