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You taste in reading shows the kinds of dreams you have, and adults who read fiction have stranger dreams than nonfiction readers?and are more likely to remember their dreams. Fans of fantasy and science fiction have more nightmares and ?lucid? dreams (in which they?re aware that they?re dreaming). Readers of romance novels have especially emotional dreams.

This information was discovered by researchers from the University of Wales who divided more than 10,000 readers into different personality types based on the books they chose, and asked them to complete questionnaires about their dreams. The researchers believe that different personality types have different kinds of dreams.
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First tourists were paying big bucks to visit the International Space Station?now the Japanese are arranging for people to autograph an asteroid.

The Japanese Muses-C spacecraft is the first craft designed to visit an asteroid and return to Earth after taking geological samples. It will be ready for takeoff in November or December and will land on asteroid SF36 in 2005. “The mission to return a sample of the asteroid to Earth is a bold and scientifically valuable undertaking,” says Louis Friedman, executive director of the Planetary Society.
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In Alaska, they know that global warming is real, because the average temperature has risen about seven degrees over the last 30 years. No other state in the U.S. is experiencing a greater change in weather than Alaska, according to Senator Ted Stevens. He says, “Alaska is harder hit by global climate change than any place in the world.”

The Bush administration says the temperature rise will bring a longer growing season to Alaska, as well as ice-free seas in the Arctic that are good for shipping. But Alaskans liked their old way of life and aren?t sure the changes will be good ones.
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The French newspaper L?Express reports that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein may be stepping down soon in favor of his younger son Qusai. Saddam has 2 sons, Qusai and Uday, and it has long been assumed that Qusai will succeed his father, since he already controls Iraq’s armed forces.

For Saddam, putting Qusai in control makes sense, because it may make it more difficult for the rest of the world to continue to agree to the U.S. economic embargo of Iraq. Saddam may feel that he is personally the target of U.S. government hatred and that his son may give the country a fresh start in the eyes of the world.
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