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A UFO hoax in New Jersey that took place on 5 nights during two months?January and February?was done with balloons, flares, fishing line and duct tape?but, like the crop circles produced by people wearing boards on their feet?people who have seen a REAL UFO could instantly tell the difference. The local media instantly picked up on it, of course, but the local county Prosecutor wasn?t happy about it: he filed charges against the two hoaxers.

In the New Jersey Star-Ledger, Sarah Schillaci Morris County prosecutor Robert Bianchi as saying, “If there is a single word to describe this?it is in essence ‘stupidity.'”

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The whole world is warming up, and one of the major reasons for this is the melting of glaciers at both ends of the earth. And sea levels are rising: a nearly ice-free Arctic Ocean in the summer may happen three times sooner than scientists have estimated, causing major coastal cities to drown.

New research says the Arctic might lose most of its ice cover in summer in as few as 30 years instead of the end of the century. The amount of the Arctic Ocean covered by ice at the end of summer by then could be only about 620,000 square miles. That?s compared to today?s ice extent of 2.8 million square miles. There?s a good side to this: so much more open water could be a boon for shipping and for extracting minerals and oil from the seabed.
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In her newest diary, Anne Strieber writes: “I once got angry, because?after I mentioned Wicca in passing during a Dreamland interview?someone wrote in and said (accusingly) is Anne Strieber a pagan? I denied it then, but now I’m finding out more about modern paganism, and it’s worthunderstanding.

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Give them a drug! – How can stores prevent shop lifting? This has become more important than ever now during the economic meltdown. It turns out there is now a DRUG for kleptomaniacs that takes the fun out of stealing.

In LiveScience.com, Robert Roy Britt quotes researcher Jon E. Grant as saying, “These are people who steal even though they can easily afford not to?[This drug] gets rid of that rush and desire.”

Studies show that 11% of adults admit to having shoplifted something at one time or another. The drug naltrexone curbs addictive urges to consume alcohol and drugs and to gamble by blocking the opiates that give addicts their ?high.? After 8 weeks of treatment, patients reported that they no longer had the urge to steal.
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