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The Orlando Sentinel, Sunday, April 4, 1999 A-1
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Study: 'Removal of trees .'
makes A~lanta hot, nasty .
ATLANTA- Metro Atlanta is
. losing an ~vE;!rage of 50 acres per
day of tree cOver to make way for'
new housiiig;" roads, shopping
malls and 'office parks, according
to a new ariaIysis of satellite imago.
es. And' as its urban forest disap-'
pears, the misery level is going up
. ......: more heat, more flooding, more
air pollution, higher electric bills.
The new analysis of Landsat Sat-
ellite data by NASA ~ate scien- "
tists, University of Georgia re-
searchers and others shows' that
frOm .1988 to'1998, the"area lost
abOut:190,000: acres of tree cover.
Between 1973 and 1988,' the loss
was about 151,000 acres, or about'
27 acres per day. .
Deadly blaze in Kentucky
Firefighters in Louisville, Ky., on Saturday inves-
tigate the scene of an early-morning house fire
that killed a 28-year-old woman and 4 of her chil-
dren and critically injured another child, Dead
were a boy. 3.
female twins. .'
appeared to
house, where
NORTHEAST
quite well," Leonard Muhammad,
Nation of Islam chief of staff, told
the congregation, which broke out
in applause. He said he didn't
know where news reports describ-
'ing the controversial leader as
gravely ill were originating. Jesse
Jackson, who led the prayer vigil,
also said the doctor who per-
formed the surgery had told him
it was successful.
five years ago, claimed terminall:,
ill cancer patients who sough'
treatment at the former Cincinna
ti General Hospital bet\\'een 196,
and 1971 were given full-body am
partial-body doses of radiation sc
researchers could measure the ef-
fects. The agreement was reacher
Friday when the last surviving pa
tient from the study agreed to it,
terms.
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Protesters arrested after
shooting may be cleared
NEW YORK - Manhattan Dis-
trict Attorney Robert Morgenthau
"plans to drOp' charges against
more than 1,200 demonstrators'
who were arrested last month on
,civil disobedience charges over
the police killing of an unarmed
African immigrant., his spokeswo-
mati said Sciturda"v. Police Com-
missioner Howard Safir disagreed
with Morgenthau's decision. Arna-
. dou Diallo, a 22-year-old street
vendor, was killed as police shot at
him 41 times Feb. -I. He was bit 19
times. Four white poli'ce officers
have been charged with second-
degree murder.
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Big Game lottery jackpot
swells to $190 million
CHICAGO - Players lined up
early Saturday to grab tickets to
the third-largest lottery jackpot in
U.S. history after the Big Game
prize rose to $190 million after an-
other winless draw. Drawing of
the jackpot, exceeded only by
Power Ball payouts of $296 mil-
lion in July 1998 and 5195 million
in May 1998, is scheculed for 11 ,
Report: California let aid
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