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APRIL 4, 2008 Presented by Dafly Herald and ABC 7 AccuWeather.com Forecasts and graphics provided by Weather One Week Only. Buy Oftt It's FDA approved, Mi, MlAf HfeMMI 6iH ttf i ffH i 147..... ,,1 til Today Clouds breaking for some sun. 52 6 Saturday Sunny to partly cloudy. Sunday Breezy with clouds limiting sun.

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0.16" Month to date 0.16" Normal month to date 0.33" Year to date 8.25" Normal year to date 6.43" TEMPERATURE Normal Record high in 1956 Record low in 1879 The sky Rise Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus 5:58 a.m. 11:09 am. 2:49 a.m. 3:32 p.m. 5:37 a.m.

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fP' The day driVe Temperatures are today's predicted highs and lows. Weather sketcher Emily Korus, 6, of Geneva, is looking forward to summer and her favorite activity going to watch the White Sox play baseball and seeing the fireworks with her dad. Emily is a student at Heartland Elementary School. Be a weather sketched Send a square drawing, along with the child's name, age, school, hometown and phone number (for verification purposes) to: Daily Herald weather sketcher, P.O. Box 280, Arlington Heights, IL.

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DNA test results to be announced within months on bone fragments found in Russia last year could prove that none of Czar escaped execution in the Bolshevik Revolution not even Anastasia, the teenage princess whose identity various women have claimed over the decades, Evgeny Rogaev, who heads a genetic research team working in Moscow an4 at the University Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, is not immune to the effect his work could have on how his fellow Russian view that violent time in their history. He keeps pictures of the royaj family carefully tucked inside a folder near charts of ASSOCIATED PRESS Russia's Cur Nicholas II, Mated second from loft, Czarina Alexandra, center rear, and their family are shown in this file photo. It is believed they were all executed in the revolution. sequences, but does not display them. Likewise, he shields any sight of the remains from everyone except the other researchers, out of respect for whomever the remains represent.

"Murders occurred. Children were murdered," he said this week, choosing his words carefully. "I will not make a show of it. That is my ethics," For Rogaev, a professor at UMass aiid Moscow State University, ensuring the accuracy qf the PNA tests is paramount. "In an expert work, it cannot be about emotions.

It must be about collection of scientific evidences, and that is why this DNA is so powerful to study," he said. Rogaev is reviewing the genetic material at the request of the Russian Federation Prosecutor's Office as part of its reopened investigation of the deaths of the royal family. Nicholas Empress Alexandra, 13-year-old Crown Prince Ajexei, the prince's four older sisters and their four attendants were taken prisoner in 1917. Even though the czar already had abdicated his throne, their captors fatally shot all the prisoners on July 17, 1918, in a basement room of a house in die city of Yeka- terinburg. DNA testing determined skeletal remains unearthed from shallow graves in a nearby mining pit in 1991 were most likely those of the couple and three of tiieir four daughters.

The daughters were believed to be 22-year-old Olga, 21-year-old Tatiana and 17-year-old Anastasia, although some people speculate the last set of remains belonged to the similarly sized 19-year-old Maria. Researchers suspect the bone shards discovered last summer, burned and doused with acid, are those of Alexei and Maria. They were found in the area where one of the professed killers said their bodies had been destroyed. The remains found in 1991 were reburied with honors in 1998 in the imperial-era capital of St. Petersburg.

It was shadowed by doubts at the time, including from the Russian Orthodox Church and some Romanov relatives, over the authenticity of the genetic results. Nevertheless, the church canonized the royal family in 2000. Glitches force Census to scrap hi-tech plans Associated Pros WASHINGTON Stumbling over its multibillion-dollar plans for a high-tech census, the government says it will go back to counting the nation's 300 million people die old-fashioned paper and pencil. Help wanted: 600,000 temporary workers to do the job. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez told Congress Thursday his department will scrap plans to use handheld computers to collect information from the millions of Americans who don't return the census forms that come in the mail.

That's one of a number of changes that will add as much as $3 billion to the constitutionally mandated 2010 count, pushing the overall cost to more than $14 billion. This was to be the first truly high-tech count in the nation's history. The Census Bureau had awarded a contract to purchase 500,000 of the computers, at a cost of more man $600 million. The contract is now projected to balloon to $1.3 billion, even though bureau will scale back its purchase to only 151,000 computers. The devices, which look like fancy cell phones, wiU still be used to verify every residential street address in the country, using global posi- tioning system software.

But workers going door-to- door will not be able to use them to collect information from the residents who didn't return their census forms. About a third of U.S. residents are expected not to return the forms. The Census Bureau plans to hire and train nearly 600,000 temporary workers to do the canvassing. Gutierrez blamed many of the problems on "a lack of effective communication with one of our key contractors." "As I have said before, the situation today is unacceptable, and we have been taking steps to address the issues," said Gutierrez, who oversees the Census Bureau.

In fact, interviews, congressional testimony and government reports describe an agency that was unprepared to manage the contract for the handheld computers. Census officials are being blamed for doing a poor job of spelling out technical requirements to the contractor, Florida-based Harris Corp. The computers proved too complex for some temporary workers who tried to use them in a test last year in North Carolina. Also, the computers were not initially programmed to transmit the large amounts of data necessary..