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In a recent news story, one of our staffers added this provocative line: “[Anne Strieber] has?been given an ‘Indian name.’ Maybe one day she’ll tell it to you.” Anne writes, “Ever since we posted this story, we’ve been besieged with mail asking for my Indian name, so I’ll tell it to you.” She also tells you how to make sure you get a copy of Whitley’s new book The Grays.

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Will humans eventually live forever? Scientists have grown immortal skin cells in a petri dish?maybe they can someday make us immortal too?but would we want to be? This possibility raises the question of whether this would cause us to spend our lives cowering in our homes, afraid of having a fatal accident.

And it’s not just long lives that we want?we want long HEALTHY lives. Biologists can’t yet promise us immortality, but they think we can live around 20 years longer than people used to.
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Scientists, including medical doctors, are meeting in France for the first international conference about near-death experiences. The conference will also contain delegates who have themselves had a near-death experience.
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We know we have a gas crisis?one that leads to not only to global warming from auto emissions, but also to war. Some researchers think that corn can save us?and save faltering Midwestern farms at the same time. But there are a few problems to be solved along the way, and one of these has to do with water.

Producing a gallon of ethanol gas from corn uses 95% less oil than producing a gallon of gas from fossil fuels and burning it gives off fewer greenhouse gas emissions. It sounds like the perfect solution, but when officials in the state of Illinois were told that an ethanol plant would be built nearby, they calculated that it would use about 2 million gallons of water per day, draining the underground aquifer that feeds the cities of Champaign and Urbana.
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