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TAMPA, Fla. (UPI) — Two Florida boys who became national heroes five years ago when they turned in $4,000 in cash they found on the street are looking for their reward money.

The money appears to have been put in a bank account for Jarvarious Jones and Oscar Carter. But no one knows where the account is, The Tampa Tribune reported.

“We’ve been trying since February to find out where the account was set up and no one will help us or tell us anything,” said Keisha Hamilton, Carter’s mother.

The boys were 13-year-old students at Greco Middle School in Tampa when they found the money in four envelopes near their bus stop.

Hamilton says Greco administrators promised to set up an account. But no one admits being the person who did.

Carter is now an 18-year-old community college student and the experience has left him disillusioned. He said he sometimes wishes he and Jones had not been so honest.

“I could have used that money to get clothes, pay some bills and help my family,” he said. “But I did the right thing and now people aren’t helping me. I’ve learned not to trust anyone.”

Copyright 2007 by United Press International

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (UPI) — U.S. scientists are developing thin, lightweight panels that could be used for residential and commercial lighting, as well as biomedical applications.

“Built of aluminum foil, sapphire and small amounts of gas, the panels are less than 1 millimeter thick, and can hang on a wall like picture frames,” said University of Illinois Professor Gary Eden.

As conventional fluorescent lights, microcavity plasma lamps use glow-discharges in which atoms of a gas are excited by electrons and radiate light. Unlike fluorescent lights, however, microcavity plasma lamps produce the plasma in microscopic pockets and require no ballast, reflector or heavy metal housing.

Eden said the panels are lighter, brighter and more efficient than incandescent lights and are expected, with further engineering, to approach or surpass the efficiency of fluorescent lighting.

“Each lamp is approximately the diameter of a human hair,” said visiting research scientist Sung-Jin Park, lead author of a paper describing the research. “We can pack an array of more than 250,000 lamps into a single panel.”

The research appears in the June issue of the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics.

Copyright 2007 by United Press International