It?s been discovered that the holes bored in cornstalks in a California crop circle that?s believed to be a hoax were made by the European Corn Borer. The European Corn Borer is an agricultural threat, and this is apparently the first infestation ever found in California. Did whoever usually makes crop circles in the U.K. bring their bugs along with them?

The presence of European Corn Borers was confirmed when stalks from the field were examined by specialists at the University of California/Davis. State agricultural officials intend to examine the field and the area around it further.

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In her latest diary, Anne Strieber talks about being lied to by Bush. She writes, “I think voters expect to be lied to. We’ve gotten used to it, but that doesn’t make it right. However, it may be inevitable, if our government doesn’t think we can understand their true motives.” You may agree with her opinion or it may make you mad, but it’s guaranteed to get a reaction.

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Scientists have long been puzzled by a basic contradiction: Men brag about having lots of sex partners, but women claim to have sex with fewer men, so one group has to be lying. Are men bragging or are women being discreet?

Terri Fisher and Michele Alexander gave women a fake lie detector test and came to the conclusion that it?s the women who are lying about their sex lives. The number of sexual partners woman reported having doubled when they thought they were hooked up to a lie detector.
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Amanda Onion writes in abcnews.com that due to falling cargo and illegal dumping, a lot of junk ends up in the ocean. Beachcomber Curt Ebbesmeyer says a lot of loot has recently blown in due to strong southwesterly winds. He’s looking forward to finding some of the thousands of rubber duckies that fell from a Chinese cargo ship 11 years ago.

“The winds started last June and kept up through the winter,” he says. “That only happens about once every 10-20 years and things that have floated around and around the ocean for decades are turning up.”
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