Heat grips much of nation
Thursday, June 9, 2011
WASHINGTON -- The mercury climbed into the 90s across more than half the country Wednesday in an early-June blast of August-like heat, forcing schools with no air conditioning to let students go home early and cities to open cooling centers. And scientists say we had better get used to it.
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