Tuesday,  July 3, 2012 • Vol. 12--No. 355 • 29 of 36 •  Other Editions

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• 9. PERU'S AMBITIOUS LAPTOP PROGRAM GETS MIXED GRADES
• The initiative has equipped more than 800,000 public schoolchildren with computers, but at a cost of more than $200 million.
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• 10. DON'T ASK BLOOMBERG FOR A LARGE SODA TO WASH DOWN THOSE HOT DOGS
• New York's mayor, known for his public health initiatives, will preside over the annual weigh-in ceremony for hot dog-eating champions at 1 p.m. as a prelude to Wednesday's contest.
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AP News in Brief
Heat, wind, fire, wind, drought, floods: Scientists call US summer a global warming preview

• WASHINGTON (AP) -- If you want a glimpse of some of the worst of global warming, scientists suggest taking a look at U.S. weather in recent weeks.
• Horrendous wildfires. Oppressive heat waves. Devastating droughts. Flooding from giant deluges. And a powerful freak wind storm called a derecho.
• These are the kinds of extremes climate scientists have predicted will come with climate change, although it's far too early to say that is the cause. Nor will they say global warming is the reason 3,215 daily high temperature records were set in the

month of June.
• Scientifically linking individual weather events to climate change takes intensive study, complicated mathematics, computer models and lots of time. Sometimes it isn't caused by global warming. Weather is always variable; freak things happen.
• And this weather has been local. Europe, Asia and Africa aren't having similar disasters now, although they've had their own extreme events in recent years.
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Official: 25 killed, 40 injured in vegetable truck explosion at city market south of Baghdad

• BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraqi authorities say at least 25 people have been killed and scores wounded by a vegetable truck that exploded in a market in in a Shiite city south of Baghdad.
• Qadisiyah provincial council chairman Jubair al-Jabouri says the blast came

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