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apart a couple of days later.
• "This is what makes science interesting," said Fitzsimmons, who specializes in comets and asteroids. "If we knew what was going to happen, it wouldn't be interesting."
• ISON's slingshot toward the sun left astronomers puzzled and excited at the same time.
• Made up of loosely packed ice and dirt, the space rock came from the Oort cloud, an area of comets and debris on the fringes of the solar system.
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Washington dog found after 9 days under rubble
• WASHINGTON, Ill. (AP) -- A dog and his owner have been reunited after the animal was found under a pile of rubble more than a week after a tornado ripped through a central Illinois city.
• Jacob Montgomery of Washington and his dog Dexter were separated when the Nov. 17 tornado damaged Montgomery's third floor apartment.
• Montgomery is a member of the Illinois National Guard.
• A guard spokesman says a neighbor sent Montgomery a Facebook message nine days later to tell him Dexter had been found under debris where the apartment used to be.
• An animal rescuing organization had coaxed the 6-month-old puppy out of the rubble with hot dogs.
• A veterinarian found Dexter to be malnourished, but without any major injuries.
• Montgomery says as soon as the dog saw him "his tail started going."
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Should you worry or is US military at the ready?
PAULINE JELINEK, Associated Press
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Warnings from defense officials and some experts are mounting and becoming more dire: The nation's military is being hobbled by budget cuts.
• "You'd better hope we never have a war again," the House Armed Services Committee chairman, Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon, R-Calif., said of the decline in what the military calls its readiness.
• So should Americans be worried?
• A look at what the Pentagon means by "ready" and where things stand:
• READINESS
• It's the armed forces' ability to get the job done, and it's based on the number of (Continued on page 20)
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