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A stronger than expected magnetic storm will make auroras visible across the whole of the northern hemisphere Saturday night. On Friday night, the sky glowed red in the US soutwest and west, and into Mexico. In Norway, the auroras were so bright that they changed night into day. The best time to see auroras is in the deepest part of the night, around midnight. City lights will obliterate subtle displays, but many Americans could enjoy a dramatic display tonight.
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A week before President Bush broke his campaign pledge to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, EPA chief Christie Todd Whitman warned him in a memo dated March 6 that he needed to demonstrate his commitment to cutting greenhouse gases or risk undermining U.S. standing among its allies around the world.

?I would strongly recommend that you continue to recognize that global warming is a real and serious issue,? she wrote.

This week, Whitman stated that ?We have no interest in implementing that treaty,? referring to the Kyoto climate treaty. She noted that the Senate voted 95-0 against the U.S. taking any action on climate change. The Kyoto agreement calls for industrial nations to cut emissions about a third by 2012.
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Scientist now say we are definitely not alone, that our universe contains an infinite number of other universes, much like our own, called O-regions, and that we may someday be able to contact them.

Jaume Garriga, of the University of Barcelona and Alexander Vilenkin, of Tufts University, say that their ?many worlds in one? concept means that these other worlds are likely to be similar to our own, with similar life forms. They will publish their hypothesis this fall in the journal Gravitation and Quantum Cosmology.
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British medical records indicate that one man contracted Foot-and-mouth disease, previously thought to only affect livestock.

During an isolated outbreak of Foot-and-mouth in 1966, Bobby Brewis, aged 35, was diagnosed with the disease and quarantined. The British Medical Journal published an article about the case at the time, saying, ?The patient described his lesions as uncomfortable and tingling, while the tongue was hot, tingling and sore.? Brewis died 6 years ago, but Foot-and-mouth had no long-term effects on his health.

Scientists say that the virus can be transmitted to humans if they come into direct and prolonged contact with infected animals. Why Brewis would have been in extended physical contact with infected animals is not known.
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