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Europe is in a panic over Mad Cow Disease, to the point that long-time meat eaters have become vegetarians and zookeepers in Germany are surreptitiously slaughtering zoo animals for food.

In humans the mad cow prion produces Kreutzfield-Jacob Syndrome. It’s a horrible way to die. First you have moodswings, then numbness and hallucinations. Next, it’s uncontrollable body movements, then a dementia that mimicsAlzheimer’s, except that it can strike people who are still young.
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After an aerial reconnaissance of the area devastated by last week’s earthquake, Indian Defense Minister George Fernandes says that one hundred thousand people may be dead and two hundred thousand or more injured.

In scenes reminiscent of the aftermath of a nuclear disaster, thousands of injured are jamming areas around overwhelmed hospitals as the true immensity of this disaster becomes more clear. From the heart-rending report that three hundred and fifty schoolchildren were killed while on parade–an entire school–to the shocked horror of government officials who are realizing that whole villages and towns are dead, the stories of the quake suggest a catastrophe of world-historic proportions.
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An airport in Siberia was shut down for 1 ? hours Friday when a UFO was detected above its runway.

The crew of a cargo plane spotted the luminous object hovering over the runway and refused to take off. The crew of another cargo plane saw the object as well, and landed at another airport.

The UFO took off and disappeared 90 minutes later.

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We are told not to over-use antibiotics, especially for minor problems like a sore throat, or else our bodies will become resistant to them. But this new medical policy may have caused the return of a potentially fatal disease that had almost vanished.

Lemierre’s disease was fairly common early in the 20th century and was eradicated when antibiotics were ntroduced. But British researchers have noticed a resurgence of the disease.

“We haven’t seen it, and suddenly we saw three cases within a few months,” said Wynne Jones, a consultant medical microbiologist with the Public Health Laboratory Service in England.
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