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Friday, May 7, 2010 – Daily News – 7A WORLD BRIEFING BP brings in the big box to deal with Gulf spill ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) — Workers gathered to begin lowering a giant concrete- and-steel box over the blown-out oil well at the bottom of the sea Thursday in a risky and untested bid to capture most of the gushing crude and avert a wider environ- mental disaster. ‘‘We haven’t done this before. It’s very complex and we can’t guarantee it,’’ BP spokesman David Nicholas warned. The 100-ton containment ves- sel is designed to collect as much as 85 percent of the oil spewing into the Gulf and funnel it up to a tanker. It could take several hours to lower it into place by crane, after which a steel pipe will be installed between the top of the box and the tanker. The whole structure could be operating by Sunday. The technology has been used a few times in shallow waters, but never at such extreme depths — 5,000 feet down, where the water pressure is enough to crush a sub- marine. The box — which looks a lot like a peaked, 40-foot-high out- house, especially on the inside, with its rough timber framing — must be accurately positioned over the well, or it could damage the leaking pipe and make the problem worse. Conservatives win most seats in UK election LONDON (AP) — The Con- servatives captured the largest number of seats Thursday in Britain’s national election but will fall short of a majority — trigger- ing uncertainty over who will form the next government, according to television projections based on exit polls. An analysis by Britain’s main television networks suggested David Cameron’s Conservative party will win 307 House of Com- mons seats, short of the 326 seats ers rebates for renovating their homes with better insulation and energy-saving windows and doors under a new economic stimulus bill the House passed Thursday. The Home Star bill, passed 246-161, would authorize $5.7 billion over two years for a pro- gram that supporters — mostly Democrats — said would have the added benefits of invigorating the slumping construction industry and making the earth a little clean- er. needed for a majority. Polls gave Prime Minister Gor- don Brown’s Labour Party 255 seats, and Nick Clegg’s Liberal Democrats 59 seats — far less than had been expected. Small parties got 29 other seats. The result would bear out pre- dictions that this election would not give any party a majority, resulting in a destabilizing period of political wrangling and uncer- tainty. Brown could resign if he feels the results have signaled he has lost his mandate to rule, or he could try to stay on as leader and seek a deal in which smaller par- ties would support him. The parties immediately began jockeying for position. NYC suspect did a dry run NEW YORK (AP) — A day before driving an SUV with a rigged homemade bomb into Times Square, a Pakistani-Ameri- can made a test drive into the heart of the city, dropped off a getaway car blocks from his target and took a train home to Connecticut, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. The official’s account of Faisal Shahzad, who took no visitors in the shabby apartment where he hoarded a gun and low-grade fire- works for months, bolsters a COMPLETE AUTO REPAIR All makes and models. We perform dealer recommened 30K, 60K, 90K SERVICES AT LOWER PRICES Smog Check starting at $ (most cars and pick-ups) 2995 + cert. Pass or FREE retest 527-9841 • 195 S. 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A spokesman for the Pakistan Taliban said it had no connection to Shahzad. But ‘‘he did a brave job,’’ Taliban spokesman Azam Tariz told The Associated Press by telephone Thursday from an undisclosed location. Times square bomb suspect cooperating WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday rejected the notion that reading Times Square bomb sus- pect Faisal Shahzad his Miranda rights hindered investigators, telling Congress that Shahzad’s cooperation is ongoing and that he has provided useful information. Holder’s testimony before a Senate appropriations subcommit- tee marked a sharp change in tone from the attorney general’s recent appearances on Capitol Hill, where he has faced tough ques- tions about his performance. With what appears to be a suc- cess in the Shahzad case, Holder said that ‘‘we will continue to pur- sue a number of leads as we gath- er intelligence relating to this attempted attack.’’ ‘‘Mr. Shahzad is in fact contin- uing to cooperate with us,’’ has provided useful information and if convicted, faces a potential life sentence in prison, Holder said. ‘‘There is simply no higher pri- ority than disrupting potential attacks and bringing those who plot them to justice,’’ the attorney general said. House passes $5.7B bill for home efficiency WASHINGTON (AP) — Homeowners could collect thou- sands of dollars in Cash for Caulk- ‘‘Home Star is that solid invest- ment that’s going to achieve that hat trick of energy savings for the homeowner, of moving toward a cleaner environment and of creat- ing jobs here at home,’’ said bill sponsor Peter Welch, D-Vt. Republicans overwhelmingly opposed the bill, and they were able to attach a condition that it would be terminated if Democrats do not come up with a way to pay for it. The measure has come to be dubbed Cash for Caulkers, a take- off on the popular 2009 Cash for Clunkers initiative that rewarded people for replacing gas-guzzling vehicles with more fuel-efficient models. Ancient interbreeding WASHINGTON (AP) — We have met Neanderthal and he is us — at least a little. The most detailed look yet at the Nean- derthal genome helps answer one of the most debated questions in anthropology: Did Neanderthals and modern humans mate? The answer is yes, there is at least some cave man biology in most of us. Between 1 percent and 4 percent of genes in people from Europe and Asia trace back to Neanderthals. ‘‘They live on, a little bit,’’ says Svante Paabo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthro- pology in Leipzig, Germany. Researchers led by Paabo, Richard E. 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