Researchers think that some people may be more susceptible to SARS than others, and that some may be “Super Spreaders”?Typhoid Mary types who are able to spread SARS rapidly to others. 26-year-old flight attendant Esther Mok is one of these. She went to Hong Kong to shop but came home with SARS, and spread it to over 100 people in Singapore, killing both of her parents and her pastor.
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In our new Insight,crop circle researcher Michael Glickman writes, “?Looking back, I realize that, in circles, I have often been overwhelmed by a sense of lethargy, lack of focus, loss of memory, a repeated inability to count or do simple sums?Then you speak to others?who admit similar experiences?It seems mainly to affect those engaged in counting, surveying or measuring ? left-brain activity?The circles seem never to confuse those who enter in order simply to experience and enjoy them. It appears that only those undertaking a rational task are affected. Where does this take us and what might we learn?”

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We only have 45 of these wonderful calendars left. Each month brings you a lovely new crop circle image, all taken by photographer and researcher Lucy Pringle. We import these calendars from England and they aren’t available anywhere else in the U.S. When you also buy Crop Circles: Signs of Contact by this week’s Dreamland guest Colin Andrews, you save $4.55, and subscribers get an even better discount with their private coupon–and that’s in addition to their regular 10% off. To get the $4.55 savings, enter the Coupon Code CALENDAR as you check out. There are 9 months left in 2003, which is plenty of time to get lots of use out of a new calendar. But hurry?these will sell out fast!
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The latest intelligence from the U.S. and Britain says Saddam may have lived through two bunker bombs. “This is a man who has spent a lifetime trying to avoid and evade assassins and military coups,” says Richard Clarke, who was a national security adviser at the White House until recently. “There’s really no explanation anyone has to this moment about how he survived.” After the recent restaurant bombing, “American covert agents or special forces saw him get out of the car and go into the restaurant or the house next to it,” says Clarke. “Apparently someone saw what looked like Saddam Hussein being taken out of the restaurant by his bodyguards.”
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