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Cops say Yunos linked MILF, JI to Manila blasts in 2000
Posted: 11:46 PM (Manila Time) | Jun. 09, 2003
Inquirer News Service
A SUSPECTED member of the Muslim secessionist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has confessed under interrogation that he plotted with the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) regional terrorist group a series of deadly bombings in Metro Manila on Dec. 30, 2000, known locally as the "Rizal Day bombings" that killed 22 people and wounded dozens others, police said Monday.
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| Community News Socrates faces acid test WILL THE DEFECTION OF THE top City Councilor to the opposition hurt incumbent Mayor Dennis Socrates� chance of getting a fresh political mandate?
The answer looms this week as Puerto Princesa braces for its first ever recall elections on September 7. Challenging Socrates are former Mayor Edward Hagedorn and neophyte Sandy Sandoval. Pundits are split on who will emerge the winner but are generally agreed that whoever will control the vast rural electoral votes spread out in the City�s 66 barangays will emerge victorious.
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AEROGEL
Inventor: NASA
A new substance called aerogel, invented in the 1930s but recently refined by NASA, has been certified as the lightest solid in the world � yes, it's in the Guinness Book of World Records. Weighing in at a mere .00011 lbs. per cu. in. (thin air weighs about .00004 lbs. per cu. in.), aerogel resembles smoke that has been frozen into place � it's cloudy, translucent and virtually weightless. It's also surprisingly tough. Chemically similar to glass, aerogel is used on the space shuttle to trap tiny spaceborne particles traveling at high speed so they can be brought back to Earth for analysis. (PHOTO BY JPL/NASA)
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