Car pollution may damage male fertility. Italian researcher Dr. Michele De Rosa thinks the nitrogen oxide and lead in exhaust fumes may be to blame. Young and middle-aged men are the largest group of commuters and they’re also the group most likely to want to become fathers.
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The U.S. recently launched an attack in Afghanistan on al-Qaeda and Pakistani sources say several terrorists were captured?one of which may be the elusive Osama bin-Laden himself.The State Department report “Patterns of Global Terrorism in 2002” says terrorist attacks around the world declined 44%, from 355 in 2001 to 199 in 2002. Counterterrorism expert Cofer Black says, “A large number of terrorist suspects were not able to launch an attack last year because they are in prison. More than 3,000 of them are al-Qaeda terrorists, and they were arrested in over 100 countries.” Let’s hope bin-Laden is now one of them.
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People like to send mail that’s postmarked “Christmas,” or some other exotically-named town. Now you can send someone a letter from the International Space Station?if you can afford the $20,000 “stamp.” Now that the Russians are no longer taking tourists to the ISS, they’re thinking up new ways to make money to support their space program. For former communists, they certainly believe in capitalism when it comes to outer space.
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Karin Goodwin writes in the Scottish Sunday Herald that scientists have found evidence of ESP after studying how mediums get information from the dead. University of Glasgow professor Archie Roy says, “There is no doubt from the work we have done that mediums can obtain information using more than the five normal senses. The results so far have been assessed with hard maths and statistics. We believe that we have disproved the idea that all mediums are able to do is make general statements.” Think you’re psychic? Take our poll!
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