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High school students in the small town of Leroy, New York have been coming down with strange tics and verbal outbursts, with no obvious cause. Several girls have even started using wheelchairs. Some people are saying that these are a result of "mass hysteria," but environmental activist Erin Brockovich thinks a toxic chemical spill 40 years ago could be the cause.

On ABC News, Katie Moisse and Linsey Davis quote Brockovich as saying, "They have not ruled everything out yet. The community asked us to help, and this is what we do."
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Have you seen an owl in your yard lately? Arctic Snowy Owls are moving south into the lower 48 states in numbers never before witnessed. A leading researcher has called the numbers "unbelievable." Most of the birds are younger owls, and it is believed that the migration is being caused by a fundamental failure of food supplies in the rapidly changing Arctic. The birds feed on lemmings and other small rodents.

They are known to engage in southerly migrations like this when prey is scarce, but the scale of what is happening now is completely unprecedented. It suggests that there has been a basic failure of the food chain in the high Arctic, probably due to Arctic melt..
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American blacks searching for their African roots are finding it’s not so easy. In the January 27th edition of the New York Times, Edward Rothstein says, "The astounding thing about American slavery is not that it existed–the enslavement of one people by another may be one of history’s universals–but that it persisted. It lasted into an era when its absence could be imagined and its presence could become an outrage."
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In the January 27th Dreamland, Linda Moulton Howe reported on one of the great close encounter experiences of all time, which happened in Utah just a few weeks ago. Her interview with the witness contains what might well be the single most useful message ever transmitted out of the experince, about who our visitors are and how we may find our way with them. The material is deeply familiar to Whitley Strieber, and here he shines what is probably as bright a light as has ever been shone on the inner truth of contact and what we can do within ourselves to be better able to understand it and make use of the message that it is bringing mankind.
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