It’s been discovered that nonsmokers who spent only four hours in a smoky Las Vegas casino had elevated levels of a cancer-causing agent called NNAL in their urine. Their urine also contained elevated levels of cotinine, which is a byproduct of nicotine. Both these chemicals only come from tobacco.

In abcnews.com, Marc Lallanilla quotes epidemiologist Robert West as saying, “This evidence could be dynamite. It is one thing to know that one is breathing in carcinogens; psychologically it is another to know that one’s own body has been contaminated by them.”
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With help from the U.S. Navy, the Russians hope to have a functional flying saucer built by 2007. They’ll be testing it at Webster Field in Maryland, so people there should be on the lookout for UFO reports then.

In wired.com, Noah Shachtman quotes engineer John Fischer as saying, “?If we can make it work, it’ll allow for new, radical concepts in aircraft design.” Engineers have discovered a way to create a vacuum around the saucer’s surface, to keep the air flowing around it.
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Local radio station KHUM in Humboldt county, California, has posted photos, taken by Jessie Crumb, of what seems to be a UFO that was seen on Thursday, December 18. To see the photos, click here.

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There have been years of speculation about why a U.K. investigation of the death of Princess Diana in 1997 has not yet taken place. In the Independent, Terry Kirby quotes a police source in France, who has read the 6,000 page official French report on the car crash, as saying, “I can tell you she was pregnant?There was a cover-up of sorts.”

This information feeds the conspiracy theorists who claim the crash was set up by the English monarchy, who would have been embarrassed if it came out that Diana was having Dodi Fayed’s baby.
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