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Dr. Edward Teller, who helped develop the atomic bomb 60 years ago, has turned his attention to possible ways to reverse global warming. Most scientists have decided that if current trends continue, the Earth’s average surface temperature will be 2.7 to 11 degrees Fahrenheit higher in 100years.

One solution may be to blast tiny particles into the atmosphere. The particles would deflect enough sunlight to trigger global cooling. Another plan would be to launch 50,000 mirrors into orbit to reflect sunlight back into space.

“The sooner, the better,” says Teller. “The simplest plan is to put into the high atmosphere small particles that scatter away one or two percent of the sunlight.”
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A new TV documentary claims that starving North Koreans are reverting to cannibalism in order to survive, and states that farmers been ordered to grow opium instead of food.

Carla Garapedian, producer of “Children of the Secret State,” a BBC production, said that film smuggled out of North Korea, as well as interviews with escapees from the Communist state, revealed “acts of unspeakable barbarism not seen since Pol Pot’s Cambodia.” She has spoken to farmers who claim to have been ordered not to grow food and told to growopium instead. “The opium would then be processed by the state into heroin and then sold abroad. The proceeds would go to arm the military,” she said.
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After two years of review, the FDA has decided that there is no need for American companies to label genfoods, and that testing for allergic response and toxicity is unnecessary.

This means that genetically engineered food products are free to enter the American food chain without restraint or restriction. Stringent European rules are exactly the opposite, requiring both testing and labeling. As a result, consumers can tell which foods are genetically altered in Europe, and avoid them. As a result, genfoods are all but impossible to sell there.
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Tiny frogs have invaded Hawaii’s Big Island. The problem is that when they croak in chorus at night, they make a noise as loud as a helicopter, so resident humans aren’t getting much sleep.

The frogs are about the size of a nickel, and arrived in Hawaii from the Caribbean in the mid-80’s, probably in an agricultural shipment. Since they have no natural predators in Hawaii, they have swelled in numbers and now pose such a hindrance to a good night’s sleep that a hotline has been set up for frustrated insomniacs.
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