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...equipped with efficient generators. Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann said over the radio that power would not be fully restored for at least 12 hours. After a recent earthquake that affected Hawaii's largest city, it took two days before electricity came back completely. By 7:30 a.m. on Saturday, however, most of the island had lights back again, though there were still some pockets without power...
Israel's strike on Gaza had been expected for days, but it was still a surprise when it finally came. Taking advantage of good weather, which is forecast to last at least three days, Israeli planes bombed some 40 Palestinian police stations, posts and other targets early Saturday morning, killing more than 150 people, including a number of senior Hamas military leaders. The first strikes came in a coordinated three-minute blitz...
...could now spike to 200 a day. Hamas announced that it had sent a rocket toward Askelon; one man in the Israeli town of Netivot, east of the Gaza Strip, was killed. Israel also expects Hamas to launch suicide attacks against Israel; a Hamas leader promised as much on Saturday...
...rapturously received Carnegie Hall concert in 1974; Alone With Me and I'm Still Here: Confessions of a Sex Kitten, follow-ups to her '50s autobiography Thursday's Child; and her distinctive voicing of the villainous Yzma in the Disney animated feature The Emperor's New Groove and its Saturday-morning TV spinoff The Emperor's New School, which earned her two Emmys...
...Obama announced his nomination of Holdren to the post—formally known as assistant to the President for science and technology—during his weekly radio broadcast on Saturday, Dec. 20. The position, which also includes directing the Office of Science and Technology Policy, requires Senate confirmation after Obama assumes office...