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Iraq War: The Big Guys Complain
January 17, 2003Famous British spy novelist John le Carre says, "How Bush and his junta succeeded in deflecting America's anger from bin Laden to Saddam Hussein is one of the great public relations conjuring tricks of history?A recent poll tells us that... continued
New Way to Attract Tourists
January 17, 2003Soap Lake, Washington, is like a lot of U.S. towns: visitors were who once attracted to its healing mineral springs now have hot tubs at home and visit Disneyworld instead. Two Soap Lake residents think what the town needs is... continued
Your Teeth Tell All
January 16, 2003Better make friends with your dentist, because he knows all about you. By looking at your teeth, he can tell what's going on in your life and in the rest of your body. A good dentist can spot diseases like... continued
You’re Ready to GO
January 16, 2003If you had 30 seconds to decide whether or not to go to another world, would you take the chance? In our last poll, we wanted to find out how many of you would go with no conditions or only... continued
Drowned Trees Reveal Past Drought
January 16, 2003There are ancient trees submerged beneath Lake Tahoe, meaning the region was once much drier than it is now. Those trees are remnants of epic droughts over the centuries that lasted so long, they caused Lake Tahoe and other western... continued
Poles Ready to Flip
January 16, 2003There are large holes in the Earth's magnetic field over the Atlantic and the Arctic, indicating that the north and south poles may be getting ready to reverse positions in a magnetic flip. This would produce a period of chaos,... continued
New Words, Much Needed
January 15, 2003The Washington Post publishes a yearly contest in which readers are asked to supply new meanings for old words and create new ones. Some of these ought to become part of our vocabularies for 2003! Keep reading to find out... continued
Living Life With No Smells
January 15, 200362% of Americans over age 53 have anosmia (no sense of smell) or hyposmia (a diminished sense of smell). They can't always taste what they're eating, which can be dangerous in cases of food poisoning. They also can't smell smoke... continued
Abominable Snowman Still Stalks India
January 15, 2003Villagers in a village in India think that 20-year-old Raja Wasim (known as Raju) was attacked by the legendary Abominable Snowman, when he went outside to feet the family's cattle. He heard a strange noise, and when he turned around,... continued
First Physical Evidence for Bible Story
January 15, 2003In recent years, even conservative Jewish archeologists have admitted that there is no archeological evidence for most of the Old Testament stories in the Bible. But now some has been found: scientists says a 2,800-year-old stone tablet that describes repair... continued