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In October, scientists reported that the ozone hole over the South Pole was the largest it has ever been. By November, it had reached the area of Puentas Arenas, Argentina. For the first time, a city was under an area of the sky stripped of ozone.

The hole in the ozone layer has appeared over Antarctica every year since 1978. Ozone absorbs harmful ultra-violet light from the sun. Too much ultra-violet can cause skin cancer, cataracts and suppress the immune system, and will destroy plant life on land and phyloplankton in the oceans, and cause blindness among unprotected animals.
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Los Angeles Times, Fox News – In Saudi Arabia recently, a group of baboons waited three days to take revenge on a human being, until a driver who had run over one of their group drove down the same road again. When they spotted the car, the of the baboons gave signal, and they all attacked, throwing stones until they broke his windshield. The driver was able to escape.

In India, a group of monkeys have made it clear that they don?t like smokers hanging out in front of an office building. An group of brown monkeys have started threatening the smokers, who are no longer allowed to smoke inside the building.
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Reuters, The New York Times, AP, ABC News – Rolling power blackouts have hit California, in what may be a warning for the rest of the country. Families have been asked to turn off their Christmas lights, businesses have had to shut down. Soon people may find themselves sitting in the dark at home. On some days, as much as one third of the electricity needed during the peak hours of 4 to 7 p.m. has not been available. Utility executives warn that the states? electrical system is on the verge of collapse. “People are in a heap of trouble,” said S. David Freeman, of the LA Department of Water and Power. “This shouldn?t happen this time of year.” Hours before Governor Gray Davis was set to turn on the lights for the states?read more

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Popular Mechanics – In recent years, there has been a controversy about increased cancer deaths of people living near power lines. Physicists and power industry executives have dismissed this link, because they say the energy levels are too low to affect cell chemistry, but the statistics tell another story. Now British researchers report that lung cancer deaths are highest in people living downwind of power lines, rather than nearby. Denis Hernshaw, a physics professor at Bristol University, says that cancer-causing chemicals in the air may pass through the electrical field surrounding a power line and become electrically charged ions.
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