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Record set again for electricity use

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) - For the second day in a row, P-P-L Electric Utilities customers set a record for electricity use. Between 3 and 4 p-m Tuesday, customers used an estimated seven-thousand-299 megawatt-hours of electricity, breaking by nine megawatt hours the record (7,290 megawatt hours) set on Monday. The previous record was set a year ago this month.

Gore appears in Philadelphia to promote book

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Al Gore says global warming is the greatest crisis our civilization has ever faced. The former vice president spoke last night in Philadelphia, where he's promoting his book on climate change.
But Gore says there's an upside as well. Gore says once the climate problem is solved, those who worked
together to solve it will have the moral authority to take on other problems. He says they'll be able to work on things like revitalizing democracy and curing AIDS. Gore compares it to the aftermath of World War Two, when those
who defeated fascism went on to rebuild Europe with the Marshall Plan -- leading to a prosperous world in the coming years.