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Last October I published a journal entry that asked the question, ?will 2003 be the year of the alien?? I asked this question for a number of reasons, the chief one of which was that Mars is going to make its closest approach to earth in over 70,000 years this summer, and Mars oppositions have in the past usually been periods of peak UFO activity.

Since May, I have been watching the UFO reports carefully, and I have seen an increase in recent months. On Thursday, June 5, Unknowncountry.com published a news story about the increase in the number of cases, and the unusual quality of some of these cases, which have involved very close approaches to some witnesses.
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?Not the kind that pop up on the internet, asking for your vital statistics, but the kind you dip into tea and eat. There’s now a website devoted to these kinds of cookies (or “biscuits,” as the English call them), that rates which ones taste best.

The site features a “biscuit of the week” and helps people track down their childhood favorites or brands they didn’t think were being made anymore. “Many people think if a supermarket does not carry a biscuit they will not find it anywhere,” says webmaster Stuart Payne, “but what we find is that big supermarkets do not stock what you find in the corner shops.”
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New research shows that the smell of male armpit sweat calms women down. Sniffing a lot of it can alter women’s menstrual cycles, so this discovery could be the start of a line of perspiration-derived contraceptives or fertility drugs. “The underarm contains physiologically active pheromones,” explains chemist George Preti. Pheromones are chemicals that affect the brain and alter our sexual behavior.

Female volunteer were exposed to male armpit odor for six hours, masked by perfume, so they wouldn’t consciously notice the smell, while their levels of luteinizing hormone were monitored. More luteinizing hormone is released from the brain as a woman approaches ovulation, and exposure to male armpit odor accelerated the arrival of the hormone.
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Traces of genetically modified grains are turning up in U.S. wheat, despite the fact that the sale of GM wheat has not been approved here yet. GM soybeans and corn, the two most widely grown genetically modified crops in the world, are getting into wheat supplies that are made into flour that’s used to make bread and other foods.

When U.S. wheat has been tested recently at Rank Hovis, the largest miller in the U.K. and an importer of U.S. wheat, traces of GM soybeans and corn particles were found mixed in with it. Director Peter Jones says, “We routinely find (soy)beans and (corn) and we must accept that these are genetically modified.” The U.K. is one of the countries that refuses to import GM foods.
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