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UPI, London Telegraph, Xinhua, Drudge – Mount Everest, the world?s highest mountain peak, is shrinking as a result of global warming. Researchers at China?s State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping discovered that the thickness of snow of Everest?s peak has decreased during the last 30 years. Meanwhile, a U.S. meteorologist who is tied to big oil companies has announced at the World Conference on Climate Change that the world has not gotten any warmer since 1940.

“The hottest years in American were around 1940. We don?t know the cause of the warming, but we don?t think it was human activity,” Professor Fred Singer of the University of Virginia said. This contradicts historical evidence that the hottest years on record were 1998, 1999 and 2000.
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High resolution NASA photos of Mars show evidence of ancient lakes and shallow seas. Why is this important? Because these are perfect places to discover fossils. In 1996, what may be microfossils were discovered in a Martian meteorite that had fallen to earth, giving scientists hope that more evidence of past Martian life can be found.
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‘Sticky stuff’ that police say they found covering a family?s home, car and yard in Fruit Cove, Florida on November 13 has health experts baffled.

Police officials say they don?t know what to make of the incident and neither does the homeowner, Margaret Anderson. The only possible connection was a helicopter that flew near the home a few days earlier.

“We don?t know it was spray for sure, but it covered the back yard and front yard,” she said. “Whether the two things are connected, we don?t know?This was a pretty heavy coverage of some kind of substance. It was really strange. It was total coverage on the cars, grass, shrubs and back deck.”
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A Special Report from Anne Strieber

I knew it! An Associated Press story from November 29, 2000 says that men really do listen with only half their brains.

In a study of 10 men and 10 women, brain scans showed that only the left sides of men?s brains lit up when listening, while women used both halves of their temporal lobes. The left side of the brain is associated with listening and speech, while the right side is used for understanding abstract concepts.
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