European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition in the states pages Gas prices nearing record by Steven Mufson the Washington Post Washington gasoline prices last week came within a half Penny of tying the modern eras inflation adjusted record set in March the Energy department said the nationwide Price of unleaded regular gasoline hit a barely below the adjusted a gallon level 26 years behind the Rise were High crude Oil prices and disruptions in output at Oil army and air Force Exchange service customers will see the effects of the latest Price surge later this cafes changes its retail pump prices every Satur Day to reflect the Doe weekly average published the previous the 1981 record was set two years after the iranian revolution brought Down the pro american seven months after War broke out Between Iraq and Iran and two months after president Ronald Reagan ended Oil Price and 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Analysed a Patch of soil in Gusev Crater and found it unusually Rich in the pres ence of water would have been necessary to produce such a Large Silica scientists this is a remarkable disco principal investigator Steve Squyres of Cornell University said in a it makes you wonder what else is still out spirit previously found clues of ancient water in the Crater through the presence of sul fur Rich water altered Miner als and explosive but the latest find is compelling be cause of the High Silica re searchers raising the possibility that conditions May have been favourable for the emergence of primitive its unclear How the Silica de posit one possibility is that the soil mixed with acid a pors in the presence of others believe the Deposit was created from water in a hot Spring the durable spirit and its have been working on overtime since completing three month mis Sion in for eight Opportunity has explored the rim of Victoria Crater on the opposite Side of the scientists Are looking for a Safe opening Send the Rover the Mission is managed at nasal Jet propulsion Laboratory in thousands attend Falwell funeral by sue Lindsey the associated press thousands of mourners on tuesday attended the funeral of the Jerry fal the Folksy evangelist who built the moral majority into a conservative Christian Empire that influenced National the funeral returned Falwell to his Thomas Road Baptist where he started As a Young preacher in 1956 with just 35 parishioners in an old abandoned soda bottling his son Jonathan Falwell leads Thomas Road and the Sanctuary seats More than an hour before the service crowds already were being directed to overflow seat ing in Liberty University basketball Arena and its football about 300 police and other personnel were helping manage the Lynchburg police chief Charles Bennett More than people had viewed Falwell body Over four Days As it Lay in Kim the news a horse drawn Hearse carries the body of the Jerry Falwell to the Thomas Road Baptist Church in on Falwell body Lay in repose for four the funeral was he was a Champion of the fundamental values that we hold said fellow Virginia evangelist Pat he stepped on some Falwell was outspoken in his condemnation of homosexuality and woman sentenced for trying to steal fetus woman who tried a to steal the fetus of her pregnant neighbor was sentenced tues Day to 22 to 50 years in Peggy to who could have been sentenced to up to 80 years in apologized for the 2005 attack against Valerie Conner in sorry for what happened to Valerie and for what part i had in Conner in not that kind of i was on drugs but Armstrong county District attorney Scott Andreassi said blood tests at the time of the crime showed no intoxicants in Conners she is now being treated for bipolar disorder and manic Oskins baby was delivered by emergency caesarean Section and was put up for As Oskin had intended before she was program exposes students to nature from new York to Alaska will be exploring forests and wetlands this year As part of an Effort by the Forest service to get kids out of the classroom and into the the million kids in the Woods program is aimed at a growing problem among Ameri can school children a Lack of direct experience with nature that experts say can contribute to childhood diabetes and even attention deficit the program also is intended to nurture future environmental scientists and other Forest service workers an acute need for an Agency with a grading work said Deputy Forest service chief Ann Washington students from the associated press