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British food retailers warned that emergency measures adopted by the government to attempt to halt the spread of hoof-and-mouth disease, discovered in the UK last week, are liable to cause food shortages in the near term.

All importation of live animals and movement of farm animals has been prohibited in an effort to stop spread of the devastating and highly contagious animal sickness. As a result of these measures, animals cannot be put to the slaughter, and shortages of all forms of meat are possible unless the ban is lifted within a few days.
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In Whitley Strieber’s 1997 memoir of his childhood with the ‘visitors,’ the Secret School (now out of print) he writes that he was taught that a comet impacted the earth 250 million years ago, and that its effects, plus a massive subsequent outbreak of volcanism, caused the Permian extinction, which destroyed over 90% of all living things on earth.

He claims in the book that he was taught this via the use of a ‘virtual reality helmet’ in 1954. The story was published five years ago, in 1997.
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On September 21, 2000, Iran successfully tested the Shahab-3 intermediate range missile, and shortly thereafter commenced deployment of this missile system. The Shahab-3 is capable of delivering a warhead a distance of 825 miles. Israel is well within range of these missiles.

Russian, North Korea and China supply Iran with missile technology, and the Shahab-3 missile is designed around the North Korean Taepo Dong-1 platform. This platform is also the basis for Iranian development of an IRBM, or space-launch vehicle.
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One of the main problems that astronauts face on long space journeys is the loss of muscle tissue, due to long periods without enough exercise. Bears solved this problem long ago-they lose hardly any muscle when they hibernate.

Henry Harlow of the University of Colorado wanted to find out why. He believes that bears have evolved a way of conserving muscle tissue so that if they are disturbed by predators, such as wolves or mountain lions, they will still be able to get away.

He and his team have been analyzing muscle samples from black bears in the Rockies. They’ve found that the bears lose only 22 percent of their muscle strength over a long winter’s sleep.
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