PGA TOUR: ; McIlroy moves on after Masters

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The first time Rory McIlroy recalls watchingthe Masters on TV was in 1996. And like any other 6-year-old alreadysmitten with the game, he no doubt dreamed of being on that stagehimself one day.

Sure enough, he was. Only he didn't play the role of his golfingidol, Nick Faldo, who rallied from a six-shot deficit with a 67 towin a third green jacket. He was more like Greg Norman.

So perhaps it was only fitting that Norman, whose 78 in the finalround of 1996 gets more attention than the two majors he won, wasamong the first to call the 21-year-old from Northern Ireland.

McIlroy turned a four-shot lead into a collapse that even …

N.H. Town Fires 4 for Gossip About Boss

HOOKSETT, N.H. - Can you be fired for gossiping about your boss? Four town employees here say they were, raising questions about fairness, free speech and a staple of life in the American workplace.

The employees were fired in April after speaking to a lawyer the town hired as a fact-finder to rout out chatterboxes.

They say questions about a close relationship between Town Administrator David Jodoin and a female employee, identified only as "A" in the lawyer's report, drifted into Town Hall sometime in March. They say they weren't the only ones who discussed the rumor, and dismissed it as untrue after briefly talking about it.

"We didn't start the rumor, nor did …

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As Pan Am Flight 830 descended toward Honolulu and passengers finished their breakfast, a blinding burst of light washed over them.

And then, "BOOM!"

The 747 shuddered violently. Confusion erupted as the airliner nose-dived. Screams and thick smoke filled the cabin. Oxygen masks dropped.

In the rear of the plane, 16-year-old Toru Ozawa lay on his back in the aisle. His lower abdomen had been ripped open, his intestines seeping out. The explosion had also sheered off one of his legs. He called out for his mother and father; they watched in horror as he died.

The Aug. 11, 1982, explosion was no accident. Ozawa was murdered _ …

6 mental health centers may close, activist says

The Daley administration plans to close six mental healthcenters, mostly in minority and predominantly poor areas of the city,the chairman of the city's Community Mental Health Board chargedWednesday.

But a city Health Department spokesman said he would be "amazed"if that were true.

The closures would affect thousands of people, whose problemsrange from severe mental illness to drug abuse and who can leastafford to be neglected, said mental health board chairman PatriciaQuirk.

Quirk said the plan to close the centers on Jan. 1 is part ofMayor Daley's budget cuts and would reduce the number of facilitiesfrom 18 to 12.

She said she knows of the …

ENERGY RECOVERY AT BIOSOLIDS COMPOSTING FACILITY

COLD WEATHER OPERATIONS

Pilot testing successfully demonstrated extracting heat from the "hot" zone of the compost pile to melt snow ana ice, free the compost cover from the slab, and preheat another pad as well as blower air.

CHALLENGES OF winter operations, where temperatures drop as low as 25�C, led the Greater Moncton Sewerage Commission (GMSC) in New Brunswick, Canada to develop an innovative energy recovery and reuse system as part of its new Biosolids Composting Facility. The GMSC composting process, carried out on an outdoor concrete pad, combines bottom aeration and the GORE(TM) Cover System. The first phase is designed to process 12,000 wet tons annually with bark …

ATP-ABN Amro Results

Results Saturday from the ABN Amro World Tennis Tournament, an euro824,000 (US$1.2 million) ATP event on indoor hardcourts at Ahoy Stadium:

Singles

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Balloonist Steve on cloud nine

BRISTOL'S Cameron Balloons has drifted into aviation history aftermillionaire adventurer Steve Fossett became the first man to fly soloaround the world.

At 2.53pm BST yesterday over the ocean south of Australia,Fossett, in his silvery Spirit of Freedom balloon, crossed east of117 degrees longitude, the line from which he set off two weeks ago.

The balloon was made by Cameron Balloons of Bedminster, wherestaff joined in the celebrations.

Managing director Don Cameron said: "It is fantastic.

When you look at the length of the voyage he has done and the factthat he has tried so many times before, it is a wonderfulachievement.

"After every one of …