A city wide blackout at Sat, 01 May 2004 02:55:18 GMT did not prevent Gunner
from posting to rec.crafts.metalworking the following:

Site Yields Early Evidence of Fire
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP

WASHINGTON (April 30) - More than three-quarters of a million years ago, early
humans gathered around a campfire near an ancient lake in what is now Israel,
making tools and perhaps cooking food, in the earliest evidence yet found of
the use of fire in Europe or Asia.

I gotta turn in five articles a week for the Hazardous Materials class.
This is going to be one of them for this week.
--
pyotr filipivich.
as an explaination for the decline in the US's tech edge, James
Niccol wrote "It used to be that the USA was pretty good at
producing stuff teenaged boys could lose a finger or two playing with."