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Lately the Iraq war is being compared to the Vietnam war, because many people aren’t quite sure why we’re there and our soldiers are vulnerable to attack by civilians. But others say it’s becoming more like the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. The U.S. has already adopted many of Israel’s military tactics, such as bulldozing terrorists’ houses. One thing many Moslem women’s groups have hoped that the fall of Saddam Hussein would bring is the establishment of women’s rights as part of any new constitution. But, at present, the situation is too violent for anybody’s rights to be respected, least of all women’s.
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As part of our new Communion Letters, we present a letter from Greg, who says: After really, really careful consideration, I’ve decided to write you. Recently, I read your book “The Communion Letters” three times. Though I have no recollections of abductions, the letters in that book have been eating at me for months. Then I had realization: I’ve seen the beings you call the “visitors” in dreams.

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We recently reported that scientists think humans should try behaving more like our close cousins, the chimpanzees. In some ways we already do: chimp females learn faster than males, the same thing that happens with humans.

Shaoni Bhattacharya writes in New Scientist that young female chimps are faster and better learners than young males. While young male chimps spend their time playing, young females carefully study their mothers and learn how to use twigs to fish for termites two years before the males do. Any elementary school teacher will be familiar with a similar phenomenon among humans.

Researcher Elizabeth Lonsdorf says, “A sex-based learning difference may therefore date back at least to the last common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans.”
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NASA’s Opportunity rover found a rock on Mars that no scientist has ever seen before?except here on Earth. It’s similar to meteorites that have come from Mars and impacted the Earth. Many scientists now think that life traveled from Mars to Earth in the form bacteria riding on meteorites, making us all Martians.

Scientists know that about 20 known meteorites came from Mars because the bubbles of gas trapped inside them match the Martian atmosphere. But similar rocks have never been seen on the surface of Mars until now. NASA’s Christian Schroeder says, “There is a striking similarity in spectra.”
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