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preventing people from becoming desensitized to them. The sirens also will be connected to the electrical grid, have solar panels and a battery backup.
• Not improving sirens "would leave a hole, just like not having a weather radio in the house would leave a hole, just like not having some form of communication to your phone would leave a hole," Stammer said. "What we're trying to do is do overlays of methods of warnings and communications in the hopes that we can catch everybody."
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AP News in Brief
Syria president denies role in Houla massacre, calls it an 'ugly crime'
• BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian President Bashar Assad denied Sunday that his government had anything to do with last week's gruesome Houla massacre, saying not even "monsters" would carry out such an ugly crime.
• In a televised speech to parliament, Assad said his country is facing a "real war" and he blamed terrorists and extremists for the bloodshed. He expressed horror over last week's massacre in the central Houla region, which killed more than 100 people, nearly half of them children.
• "If we don't feel the pain the pain that squeezes our hearts, as I felt it, for the cruel scenes -- especially the children -- then we are not human beings," Assad (Continued on page 27)
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