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Stanford University students are being traumatized by squirrels. The campus squirrels have begun bizarre suicidal death leaps into the path of oncoming student bikers.”Yesterday, I was riding my bike along Escondido Road, when all of a sudden, my friend Katie screamed at me,” says Vauhimi Vara. “When I turned around, it turned out I had almost biked over a dead squirrel … It was quite traumatic.”

“It’s really hard to even ride your bike on campus,” says Katie Founds. “They’re always leaping in front of you.”

“It’s pretty scary, actually,” says Walter Shen. “They got these huge claws … like Spiderman up the walls.”
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Twentieth Century Fox won a ferocious bidding battle for “The Day After Tomorrow,” a script based in part on the book ?The Coming Global Superstorm? by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber. This will be a big-budget, high-concept film in which the world is ravaged by global warming. The picture will be directed by Roland Emmerich, who directed “Independence Day,” which was one of the biggest grossing films ever, with $900 million worldwide.
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More than half of all Americans breathe polluted air that can damage their health because the government doesn’t fully enforce clean air laws, according to the American Lung Association. Standards are in place to cut back pollution, but since they are not being enforced, nearly 400 counties in the United States have smog levels above the legal limits.
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Toxic mold is becoming a serious problem nationwide. “Oh this is no hype. This is real. This is very real. And people get very ill from this,” says Elena Walker, one of its victims.

Walker works at the Houston, Texas office of the IRS and says her job is taxing her health. “Three months after I began working, I broke out with hives. It [swelled] up my eyes. I looked like I’d been in a fight with Mike Tyson,” Walker says. “It’s not an allergy. It’s a toxin. It’s a poison.”
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