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Japan’s Health and Welfare Ministry said Wednesday, Dec. 27 that it had confirmed that U.S.-grown genetically modified corn banned for consumption in Japan and elsewhere had been mixed with corn used for brewing beer and making processed foods. Of a batch of about 38,000 tons of corn imported from the United States, about 28,000 might have been blended with the StarLink variety, according to the ministry.

Such incidents are expected to place continued pressure on American food exports in general, and corn in particular. There is presently no effective way to prevent StarLink corn from entering the food chain almost at random, due to the lack of any effective methods of tracking the product.
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Please note that this is not a statement of opinion, but a news item that communicates the facts as they are being reported abroad. It does not necessarily reflect Whitley Strieber’s personal views about the election.

As unofficial recounts of the disputed Florida election make it more and more clear that Al Gore won the state, the foreign press is beginning to question the legitimacy of the new administration. Florida sunshine laws mean that the press has free access to the disputed ballots, so a full and complete recount will be done by any number of different news organizations.
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UFOnews1 – The Nasca lines are images made from lines of stones in Peru, some over a mile long, in the shapes of birds and mammals, including a hummingbird, a monkey and a man. There are also geometric shapes, such as zig-zags and spirals. As with the pyramids in Egypt and other great early structures, the questions archaeologists ask are why did these early people spend so much effort to make these monuments, and how did they do it?
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Scientists have been able to double the life spans of fruit flies by manipulating one of their genes. Someday soon, they may be able to do it for us. Scientists have named the gene INDY for “I?m Not Dead Yet.”

Flies with a mutation in the INDY gene have lived for 71 to 110 days, more than twice as long as their usual life span of 37 days. The long-lived flies appear to be as healthy as normal flies, and continue to reproduce into old age.
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