Wednesday,  July 4, 2012 • Vol. 12--No. 356 • 23 of 32 •  Other Editions

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• 1. SOME ARE PARTYING LIKE IT'S 1776 -- WITHOUT ELECTRICITY
• Power outages from Friday's storm alter planned celebrations in a host of ways.

• 2. PHYSICISTS FIND EVIDENCE OF NEW SUBATOMIC PARTICLE
• The head of the world's biggest atom smasher says they have discovered a new particle that is consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson known popularly as the "God particle."

• 3. GRIFFITH HELPED FORM A VISION OF RURAL AMERICA THAT STILL ENDURES

• The iconic actor spread the notion, begun by no less a figure than Thomas Jefferson, that somehow the very best of us was contained in the rural life.

• 4. WEATHER, NOT DISABILITIES, HAMPERED VETERANS' CLIMB
• The five men say their war injuries had nothing to do with their failure to reach Mount McKinley's summit.

• 5. ROMNEY MAY BE EVEN WEALTHIER THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT
• His acknowledgement that he owns a Bermuda-based entity called Sankaty High Yield Asset Investors Ltd. Puts his net worth even higher than an earlier $250 million estimate.

• 6. BARCLAYS FORMER CEO FACES PARLIAMENTARY GRILLING
• Bob Diamond will be asked by lawmakers at 8:15 a.m. about the bank's manipulation of interbank lending rates.

• 7. PRESIDENT TO HONOR TROOPS AT NATURALIZATION CEREMONY
• Obama will speak to the military members at 10:50 a.m. and then attend an Independence Day celebration at 6 p.m.

• 8. GERMAN SPY AGENCY FACES PROBE INTO COVER-UP OF NEO-NAZI GROUP
• A parliamentary committee wants to question the agency's outgoing chief and another official Thursday about files that were destroyed after the gang's terror spree.

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