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Will Boggs writes that not only do some hospital patients become infected with superbugs, their visitors can take the infection home with them. Antibiotic-resistant staph infections are now frequently found outside hospitals.

Dr. David P. Calfee studied 172 personal contacts of 88 patients who got superbug infections in the hospital. 25 of them carried the same superbug, including one person who had only casual contact with the patient.

Ancient civilizations had their own ways of healing.

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A farmer in Wisconsin saw a crop circle being formed in his barley field. Arthur Rantala says, “The holes appeared and there it was but you couldn’t see what made it, but I [saw] it right when it happened.”

He says, “It looked like a lake. The waves, the wind blowing, and then all of the sudden this dark hole appears, like a black hole. And then immediately, one to the right, then another to the center of it.”

When asked if the grain could have been flattened by a board, he says, “No. How you gonna go around knock[ing] this down so flat is hasn’t come up since??UFOs? Let them think what they do, but I saw this actually happen so my eyes know what I [saw]. So I know it was Mother Nature and nobody else.”
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The makers of Snickers are planning to add vitamins, minerals and protein to their candy and call the new version the Snickers Marathon. Nutritionist Bonnie Liebman says this will be nothing but “fortified junk food.”

Liebman says most people don’t realize that an “energy bar” simply means food that gives you energy. That energy comes from calories, and most of us don’t need any more of those. There are more than 200 calories in most energy bars. Marathon bars will come in chewy chocolate peanut and multi-grain crunch, and both of them will have the Snickers blend of chocolate, peanuts and caramel. Masterfoods chef Bill Bellody spent three years developing the right flavor.
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Tess Livingstone writes in the Australia Courier-Mail that Australia may become our 51st state. American-born historian David Mosler says there’s a 20% chance of Australia becoming a state in the next 50 years, and chances would increase if there was an al-Qaeda attack on Australia or if nearby Indonesia becomes a fundamentalist Islamic country.

Mosler says Australians have no national flag and a weak sense of nationhood and have simply replaced their former British culture with American ideas. Some of the advantages for them as a state would be becoming part of the U.S. military, using the world’s strongest currency, gaining a Bill of Rights, and fielding basketball and baseball teams.
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