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When we have a broken bone, do we have to suffer in order to heal? Despite the advances of modern medicine, maybe we do.

“It’s time to tell the public,” says Thomas Einhorn, an orthopedic surgeon at Boston University Medical Center. “It would seem that a prudent approach is to temporarily avoid the use of these drugs during bone healing.”

He?s talking about the new painkillers Vioxx and Celebrex, which are often given to ease the pain of broken bones. When Patrick O’Connor at the University of New Jersey gave these painkillers to rats, their broken bones didn?t fully heal.
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Go outside and look up at the sky tonight at twilight. You?ll see a solar eclipse and the Sun will look like a crescent, caused by the moon passing in front of the Sun. Depending on where you live in North America, between 20% and 80% of the Sun will be covered. The partial eclipse will last about 2 hours.

Don?t look directly at the eclipse, as this could harm your eyes. Look through a lens with a solar filter or project an image of the Sun onto a screen through binoculars or a telescope (but don?t look directly through them). You can project the image on a piece of paper or anything else light colored.
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A team of explorers has discovered the ruins of a lost city in Peru that has been hidden in a remote mountain jungle for over 500 years. The city is called Cota Coca and it?s not far from the well-known tourist site of Machu Picchu. The “coca” refers to the coca leaf which grows there and was probably used in religious rituals.

British explorer Hugh Thomson and his team found the lost city, which he says is in a “remarkable state of preservation.? He?s amazed by his discovery and says, ?You’re only going to find a new Inca site once in your life.”
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Our June 8 radio archive actually played the June 1 show this weekend, but it has now been fixed. If you click “Listen Now” at the top of our page, you can hear Michael Glickman’s and Linda Howe’s crop circle reports and J.H. Brennan on occult Tibet and time travel.

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