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The arctic melt this summer is unprecedented. By mid-September, it will be worse even than 2007, which saw the Northwest Passage opened for the first time. On August 27, the US National Snow and Ice Data Center reported that the ice pack was a 4.1 million square kilometers, 70,000 square kilometers lower than 2007. There are still about four weeks to go before the ice pack stabilizes and starts to grow, as the days get shorter and the arctic winter sets in.
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Anne Strieber wants to continue her wonderful contactee interviews for subscribers, but she’s run out of contactees. If YOU’VE had a personal UFO experience, write an email to anne@strieber.com with the subject heading "contactee interview" and TWO (no more) paragraphs about what happened to you, and Anne will get back to you.read more

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There’s a wonderful song and dance number in the middle of the film "Singin’ in the Rain" in which Donald O’Connor sings a song called "Make ‘Em Laugh." I’m in that strange position right now–we have a seriously ill friend far away in another city whose kids are asking us to send her amusing jokes and stories to cheer her up (but I won’t "sic" our Jokester friend on her because that would probably kill her outright!)
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Researcher Paul Zak thinks so, and he’s proving it by taking blood samples from all sorts of people, from a bride and groom on their wedding day to tribal warriors in Papua New Guinea as they prepare to perform traditional rituals. He’s looking for levels of oxytocin, known as the "love chemical."
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