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Linda Howe will soon file a report on the current mystery of missing bees. This has been going on for about a year, when commercial beekeepers first began noticing that huge numbers of their bees were missing.

In New Scientist, Michael Reilly quotes bee expert May Berenbaum as saying, “Imagine waking one morning to find 80% of the people in your community are just gone.”

Reilly reports that, “bustling colonies, tens of thousands strong, were emptying in a matter of days. Systematic searches for dead bees around the colonies mostly drew a blank.” As we noted in an earlier story, piles of dead bees have turned up in swimming pools in some locations, but they mostly seem to have vanished into thin air.
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We recently published an article telling why drinking any kind of cola is bad for your bones. New research shows that soft drinks are one of the primary causes of the obesity epidemic in the US?AND they rot your teeth!

Carbonated soft drinks are the single largest source of calories in the American diet, according to a 2005 report called “Liquid Candy,” produced by the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI). Companies annually manufacture enough soda pop to provide more than 52 gallons to every man, woman and child in the United States.Obesity expert Kelly Brownell says, “Nobody claims there is a single cause to the obesity problem, but the existing science certainly puts soft drinks in the list of leading contributors.”
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While the US still keeps our UFO files undercover, Canada and the UK have begun declassifying theirs. France is the leader in this: it has declassified its files on UFOs and even has a website that documents over 1,500 sightings in the last 50 years. 25% of these cannot be explained.
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In Anne’s latest diary, she criticizes Gen. Peter Pace’s statement that gay people are “immoral” and don’t belong in the armed forces, and talks about how almost all the gay men she knows have already BEEN in the military. She writes, “One of my gay friends was even a drill sergeant at Parris Island in South Carolina!” Now she has an UPDATE from a national news magazine which puts it in even BETTER perspective…and ANOTHER update straight from the Bible! And she explains why anyone who interprets the Bible literally had better be prepared to do a lot of ironing.

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