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The host for the devastating African disease Ebola, which has no cure and kills quickly and painfully, has not yet been found. The host is an animal which carries the virus but is not itself affected by it, and if it could be found, diseased creatures could be eradicated, ending the plague. Scientists haven’t yet found the host, but they have some potential candidates.

Shaoni Bhattacharya writes in New Scientist that researcher Townsend Peterson and his team are flying out to the Congo, where a new outbreak of Ebola is beginning, to continue the search. The latest outbreak has killed 11 people so far, and infected another 87. Another recent was in the same region and killed 128 of the 142 people infected.
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As part of our series on new Communion Letters, “John from PA” writes: I was eight years old in 1957 and grew up in a rural suburb of Pittsburgh , PA. My parents were strict Christians.

There was an undeveloped lot behind the house and wooded, with brush and berry bushes, trees, etc. It was about one block by two blocks long with a dirt-gravel road all the way around the perimeter. Further past the far dirt road was even an deeper a bigger wooded area.

After school one day about 4 pm, I thought I heard a voice, sounding like my older brother or maybe a neighbor friend calling me from there (across the first dirt road). I was told not to go in the woods without my older brother or a friend with me.
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We’ve written about how global warming will change the states of California and Washington. Alaska is warming up more quickly than anyplace else on Earth, meaning big changes are in store for the people?and animals?living there.

John Whitfield writes that in Prince William Sound, boats now have to navigate around calved icebergs from the Columbia Glacier. If the temperature warms up any more in Fairbanks, a city built on permafrost, the streets will turn to slush.
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A new record of U.K. UFO sightings has been compiled called PRUFOS?Police Reporting UFO Sightings?by Detective Constable Gary Heseltine. PRUFOS contains 84 official sightings reported by a total of 212 policemen and policewomen in the U.K. between 1950 and 2002.
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