We get weather forecasts every day, but not much news aboutglobal warming. U.S. scientists fear that the public “turnsoff” when it hears predictions of climate change, eitherbecause we don’t want to face facts or because the subjectis too big to understand. Climate change has apublic relations problem. There have been major indicationsof global warming in the last few years, but none of themhave mobilized the U.S. public enough to demand governmentaction.
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Laurance Rockefeller died on July 11, 2004 at the age of 93,after a brief illness. Mr. Rockefeller was of exceptionalimportance to UFO research. Between 1993 and 1995, hesupported Dr. John Mack’s Center for Psychology and SocialChange in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1997, he funded adiscovery initiative spearheaded by long-time friend MarieGalbraith, designed to inform world leaders of the validityof the UFO issue and to increase pressure for disclosure ofgovernment files.
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As part of our series of newCommunionLetters, we hear from Dan, whowrites: “I remember seeing [a UFO] over downtown Portland,Oregon thirty-six years ago?[A] pilot was trying to getclose to an unusual object that was over the downtown area.The main feature of this object were several bright lightsof three colors: white, red, and green. The exact placementof these lights would be hard to describe, as the objectmoved with a complex tumbling motion like the UFO in yourvideo clip.”

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If you think someone is watching you, it may not beparanoia. Researcher Stefan Schmidt believes he’s provedthat our sixth sense is real. In one experiment, a volunteerin a sealed room watched a second volunteer in another roomon close circuit TV. The second volunteer was hooked up toelectrodes which recorded the electrical activity of theskin, and showed that he felt a “prickle” at times when he was being watched.

Anil Dawar writes in the Daily Telegraph that in a secondexperiment, the first volunteer concentrated onmaking the second person feel uncomfortable or relaxed.Again, they were in separate sealed rooms. Schmidt says that”for both data sets there is a small but significant effect.”
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