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ate encounters, the two men testified Wednesday at the ex-assistant football coach's child molestation trial.
• "He told me that if I ever told anyone that I'd never see my family again," said the man, now 25. He said he was terrified when Sandusky uttered the threat after the coach pinned him while wrestling in the basement of the Sandusky home and performed oral sex on him.
• "I freaked out. I got nervous. I got scared," the man said about the encounter. He said he believed that Sandusky's wife was home at the time, but on a different floor.
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• WASHINGTON (AP) -- They live on your skin, up your nose, in your gut -- enough bacteria, fungi and other microbes that collected together could weigh, amazingly, a few pounds.
• Now scientists have mapped just which critters normally live in or on us and where, calculating that healthy people can share their bodies with more than 10,000 species of microbes.
• Don't say "eeew" just yet. Many of these organisms work to keep humans healthy, and results reported Wednesday from the government's Human Microbiome Project define what's normal in this mysterious netherworld.
• One surprise: It turns out that nearly everybody harbors low levels of some harmful types of bacteria, pathogens that are known for causing specific infections. But when a person is healthy -- like the 242 U.S. adults who volunteered to be tested for the project -- those bugs simply quietly coexist with benign or helpful microbes, perhaps kept in check by them.
• The next step is to explore what doctors really want to know: Why do the bad bugs harm some people and not others? What changes a person's microbial zoo that puts them at risk for diseases ranging from infections to irritable bowel syndrome to psoriasis?
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• LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Lenders initiated foreclosure proceedings against more U.S. homeowners in May, setting the stage for increases in home repossessions

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