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Heather: I just wanted to share with you both that my husband and I are off to the movies this afternoon to go and experience ‘The Day After Tomorrow’ and I am wearing my unknowncountry.com t-shirt. I hope I get at least one person there to recognize it?LATER: Price of 2 adult movie tickets: $14.00 Price of one small popcorn and a large water at concession stand: $6.75 Watching summer blockbuster movie made from book by two men I admire, while tightly clenching husband’s hand: priceless.

Ken: Saw your movie “The Day After Tomorrow” yesterday morning, the first showing at our local theatre. It was great to see your names in the credits (I always watch the credits). By the way, it has been raining here in the Midwest almost non-stop for weeks and weeks.
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The media is flooding the world with the false claim that a storm such as the one depicted in Art Bell and Whitley Strieber’s The Coming Global Superstorm and the new movie The Day After Tomorrow cannot happen. They are using claims from scientists, mostly funded by the oil industry, to lull the public into a state of indifference about this danger. Every major media outlet in the world, from the New York Times to le Monde to CNN to the BBC to Fox and on down the list is repeating the same falsehood: the storm, as depicted in the movie, could not happen.
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Asthma has increased by around 160% worldwide in the last 20 years and 25% of U.S. children suffer from it. This rise is a mystery to scientists. Some think it’s because children play indoors more so they don’t get enough exposure to bacteria, which can strengthen their immune systems. Others think smaller families may be the problem, as the youngest is usually the healthiest, since his immune system has been exposed to germs from all his siblings. Other researchers have even implicated margarine. The newest culprit is antibiotics.
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175 tornadoes were reported over the weekend. The years 2003 and 2004 have seen a dramatic increase in the number of tornadoes being reported in the US. The record for most tornadoes in any month (since modern tornado record keeping began in 1950) was set in May 2003, with 516 tornadoes confirmed. This easily broke the old mark of 399, set in June 1992. But May 2004 may break all records for numbers of tornadoes. Global warming models predict dramatic increases in violent weather. An increase in the severity and frequency of tornadoes is consistent with this model.
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