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<br />300 fall ill <br />from heat at <br />Jamboree <br />7~7 8-tJJ <br />BY MICHAEL FELBERBAUM <br />Associated Press <br /> <br />BOWLING GREEN, Va. <br />About 300 people, most of tbem <br />Boy Scouts, were sickened by <br />the beat Wednesday while wait. <br />ing for President Bush to arrive <br />at a. memorial service for four <br />Scout leaders killed while pitch. <br />ing a tent beneath a power line. <br />The president's visit to the <br />Scout Jamboree at Fort A.P. Hill <br />was postponed because of the <br />threat of severe thunderstorms. <br />Instead, Bush is scheduled to <br />visit the gathering today. <br />But before the presic]cnt's <br />appearance was caned oft~ marlY <br />Scouts fell ill from temperatures <br />that rose into the upper 90s, <br />made worse by high humidity. <br />Half of those were treatc:1 <br />and released from the base ho". <br />pital. Dozens more went tu <br />other hospitals and were in sta <br />ble condition Wednesday night. <br />,;,\" <br /> <br />u.AsYts i]fe..T.L~eQ <br /> <br />~NG.; .j)~f._f';iei-cQ_. <br />