This excerpt comes from a documentary pilot that was made in January of 1996, but never appeared on TV. It shows Whitley Strieber actually finding the remains of the Secret School for the first time, moments after claiming that it was "interdimensional." He did not believe that there were any remains because he had searched the area where he remembered seeing them many times.
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Some people are luckier than others. Some people rely on lucky charms. One extremely lucky man in the UK told a judge he did not get rich from embezzling?he got his money because he won the lottery 80 times.
In the Independent, Graham Keeley reports that a judge became suspicious about Juan Antonio Roca when the police discovered regular deposits of large amounts of money into his bank account that could not be accounted for by his salary. He was charged with embezzlement, but pleaded not guilty. Keely quotes him as saying, “In the past 15 years, I’ve won about 50 prizes in lotteries. And throughout my whole life I have won about 80 major prizes.”
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Your fingers can tell a lot about you. Now it’s been discovered that the lengths of children’s index and ring fingers can predict how well they will perform on SAT tests.
LiveScience.com reports that kids who have longer ring fingers than index fingers are likely to get higher test scores in the math sections of the test. Kids with the reverse?longer index than ring fingers?are likely to get the highest scores in the verbal parts of the test.
Psychologist Mark Brosnan says that this is because the different levels of the hormones testosterone and estrogen in the womb cause the different finger lengths, and testosterone causes a fetus to have a longer ring finger. Males?and females with higher testosterone levels?tend to do better in math.
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We hear so much about soldiers coming home from Iraq with missing limbs due to insurgency bombings, but a more pervasive problem is that gunfire is making many of our soldiers deaf.
Gunfire can have a profound impact on soldiers’ hearing, and the long-term effects carry over to their post-military lives. A recent study found soldiers have a major risk of hearing loss due to the “impulse noise” associated with gunfire, often leading to acoustic trauma in 10 to 15% of soldiers returning from active military duty. Researcher David R. Nielsen says, “Long-term hearing loss?severely impacts our soldiers’ abilities to transition back to civilian life.”
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