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NEW YORK (AP) — In the fight of pachyderms vs. people — the pachyderms now have the upper trunk. Three circus elephants scored a decisive victory over three human competitive eaters at a cross-species eating contest Friday, chomping down on 505 hot dog buns in six minutes. The humans forced down only 143 buns in the bout at Brooklyn's Coney Island. The elephants, Bunny, Susie and Minnie — all in their 40s — ate at what appeared to be a leisurely pace from behind a table piled high with buns. They even paused to eat some fresh fruit, which was not counted toward scoring. Their human competitors were far more focused. Eric ``Badlands'' Booker, a New York City subway conductor who is the world champion in corned beef hash eating, took a double-fisted approach, dipping two buns at once into liquid to make them go down easier. Juliet Lee, a petite 43-year-old who started the contest with her midriff exposed, pushed several buns into her stretched mouth simultaneously. Originally from China, Lee is the world cranberry sauce champion, a title she won by eating 13.23 pounds of the sauce in eight minutes. Tim ``Gravy'' Brown, whose claim to fame is having eaten 8.47 pounds of blueberry pie in an eight-minute, handsfree competition, rounded out the team. ``We went all out, hungry and focused,'' said Booker, who like the others was preparing for Saturday's annual Fourth of July hot dog eating contest. Friday's match was sponsored by Major League Eating and Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey. Contest organizers called the results a ``setback for humanity,'' but the two sides may not have been fairly matched. The humans weigh about 500 pounds collectively, while the Asian elephants weigh about 9 tons, the organizers said. n
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By LAUREN DALEY, ldaley@indianagazette.net
A federal mediator has been called in to assist Penelec/FirstEnergy Corp. and a union representing more than 500 striking employees to come to terms on a new contract.
AAA reported that more people are planning to take ``staycations'' rather than vacations over the Fourth of July holiday weekend this year.
By CHAUNCEY ROSS, chauncey@indianagazette.net
Call it timing, but the state police got some unexpected yet suspicious help in promoting the beefed-up highway patrols for the holiday weekend.
IUP golfer Gavin Smith will be featured Saturday when CBS televises its recap of the NCAA spring sports championship season. The one-hour program begins at 2 p.m.
By TONY COCCAGNA, tonyc@indianagazette.net
Mark Bertig was making his way toward Homer City's baseball complex earlier this week when the sparkle of the lights on the American Legion field caught his eye.
HOMER CITY - The race for the Indiana County Junior Legion regular-season championship has come down to the final day.
Coming case of the ballpark murder: You don't have to be Perry Mason to solve the latest whodunit, The Case of the Ballpark Murder.
The recently passed House bill on global warming is a 1,500-page political sucker punch that could give family finances a bloody nose and ultimately flatten the economy while proponents pretend it will save the planet. In and of itself, it won't do an inch of good. Assume if you want that all the talk of unperturbed greenhouse gases finally frying us is true and that the bill would slowly reduce carbon emissions in the United States to roughly the level of 100 years ago. The impact of holding down an increase in world temperatures by the end of this century would still be something utterly unnoticeable.
There is much in the House cap-and-trade energy bill that just passed that I absolutely hate. It is too weak in key areas and way too complicated in others. A simple, straightforward carbon tax would have made much more sense than this Rube Goldberg contraption. It is pathetic that we couldn't do better. It is appalling that so much had to be given away to polluters. It stinks. It's a mess. I detest it.
By ANTHONY MCCARTNEY, AP Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The question of when and where a public memorial service will be held for Michael Jackson has finally been answered. But how city officials will handle the likelihood of a massive crowd remains to be settled.
By DENNIS OVERBYE, New York Times News Service
Stars are the meat and potatoes of astronomy and cosmology. Everything we know about the universe depends on a remarkably intimate and hard-won knowledge of how they shine, age and die. They have defined the night for generations, and provided our ancestors with the first hints of a regularity in nature that has haunted scientists and thinkers for thousands of years.
LONDON (AP) — Legendary music producer Quincy Jones says Michael Jackson's sudden death is too surreal to process.
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NO PRINT EDITION SATURDAY:To our readers: The Religion pages, Youth Sports page and weekend cable highlights are in today's paper instead of Saturday's because of the Independence Day holiday, when there will be no newspaper. The Sunday edition will be published on its regular schedule.
Teddy says....``A timid person is frightened before a danger; a coward during the time; and a courageous person afterward.'' - Jean Paul Richter, German author (1763-1825).
Coming up in The Gazette...SUNDAY: Look for the All-Gazette Baseball Team./Sports SUNDAY: A Saltsburg-area native is training in Russia to be a backup crew member for a September mission to space. SUNDAY: A Center Township teen placed in the top ten at a national jumproping competition.
There's good news today in The Gazette about:Cassie Ulisse, Adam Beilchick, Jim Irwin, Debbie Mock, Kelly Slee, family,
OBITUARIESADAMSON, Harry Clinton, 59, Indiana McCONAUGHEY, Lois G., 76, Smicksburg
FORECAST:Mostly cloudy tonight with a chance of showers and a low of 55. Partly sunny Saturday with a high of 73.
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