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West Nile Virus, which has plagued Northeastern summers since 1999, has returned. Dead crows in two New Jersey communities have tested positive for the virus. When the deadly virus first burst into New York, it caused an epidemic that left 7 people dead, and last year 2 people died from it. Symptoms include headache, high fever, neck stiffness, stupor, disorientation, coma, tremors, convulsions, muscle weakness, paralysis and?rarely?death.
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I was recently asked to host the world’s first internet UFO conference, at which the results of a further analysis of a piece of material allegedly from the 1947 Roswell crash were to be publicized.

The conference was scheduled for May 12, 2001. Last week, the conference was cancelled. Nevertheless, we have continued to work on the sample.

An isotopic analysis done in 1997 showed that the various elements present in the sample had isotopic ratios that were not consistent with earth elements, meaning that they couldbe from another planet.

We performed an analysis of the shape of the object, which showed it to be a lip or tube with an approximate five inch diameter, thus proving that it was manufactured.
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On Tuesday, May 8, So Weird, BBC Online’s paranormal site, launched a live UFO video cam based in Bonnybridge, Britain’s UFO hotspot. During a three-year period in the 1990s, there were as many as 3,000 sightings of UFOs in this town of only 5,000 people.

The camera is mounted on the Royal Hotel and points in the direction of most of the reported activity. It will be live from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. daily (that?s 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. EST in the U.S.) and will send images every two minutes. If users see something, they can “grab” the image and post it to So Weird. The best of these sightings will be put into a gallery on the site.

This was done before with So Weird’s Ghostcam, based in the haunted house Llancaiach Fawr Manor in South Wales.
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The U.S. is unprepared for the health impacts of climate change, according to a panel of scientists from universities, government and the private sector. They have called for sweeping improvements in planning, before it?s too late.

The U.S. is better prepared than less-developed nations for meeting the health needs expected to occur with future extreme weather events, but it needs more study of the link between climate and health. ?People still die in floods and heat waves,? says Jonathan Patz of Johns Hopkins University. ?We are not protecting everyone.? Scientists predict that in the decades to come, extreme weather events such as heat waves and heavy rainfalls will occur more frequently.
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