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It’s never too late if you tan the new Australian way?with a skin implant that gives you an all-over tan with only one dose, by triggering the production of the dark pigment melanin in the skin. It also protects you when you do get to the beach, because melanin is the body?s natural sunscreen. Half of all Australians will develop skin cancer during their lives, which explains why the implant was developed there. When it was tested on dogs, they grew jet black fur.

Melanotan will be a match-sized implant that is put under your skin. Each 30-day dose will cost around a hundred dollars and one dose per year will be enough to get a nice tan. The drug cost $10 million to develop and will cost another $70 million to get approved, and should be available in 2005.
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World famous hair expert Hans Brunner may soon prove that a Yeti is living on an island in Indonesia. Legends of the Orang Pendek, or Little Man of the Forest, have circulated in that part of the world for centuries. Brunner, of Deakin University in Australia, is analyzing two hairs which were found by British explorers who followed the trail of a primate in Western Sumatra and found unknown hairs and a footprint. So far, no match was found when they were tested against hairs of the orangutan, chimpanzee, gorilla, sun bear, red leaf monkey, pigtail macaque, Malaysian tapir and human.
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Recent NASA satellite images and space-based measurements of the thickness of Earth’s polar ice sheets show they are melting much more rapidly than we thought. Large areas of ice in southeast Greenland, West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula are changing rapidly and scientists don’t understand why this is happening so fast. NASA?s Eric Rignot says, “Earth’s polar ice sheets are changing over relatively short time scales, that is, decades versus thousands of years.”
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The U.S. military buildup is now estimated to consist of up to 100,000 troops positioned within striking distance of Iraq. In the midst of these preparations for a new war in the Middle East, one question is never asked: Are we doing it for the oil? If we could gain control of Iraq, we would no longer have to rely on Saudi Arabia for oil. This would mean we could take a harder line with the Saudis and insist, for instance, that they crack down on the terrorists within their borders and stop brainwashing school children with anti-American propaganda.
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