Cancer Capital of the World

December 8, 2002
Marin County in California has been called "the breast cancer capital of the world" because it has an unusually high rate of breast cancer?as does Long Island, New York. Residents suspect environmental causes, but epidemiologist Tina Clarke says, "It's not... continued

Viagra Violence

December 8, 2002
Doctors have noticed that the impotence drug Viagra can cause aggressive behavior and sexual violence. In July, Dr. Harold A. Milman published an article in the Annals of Pharmacotherapy about more than 12,000 reports of violence in men who took... continued

Was Bigfoot a Prank?

December 8, 2002
Ray Wallace, one of the first Bigfoot researchers, died of heart failure on November 26 at age 84, and his family now says he created the Bigfoot prints he claimed to have discovered in 1958. "Ray L. Wallace was Bigfoot.... continued

Poll on “Taken”

December 8, 2002
The new series "Taken" on the Sci Fi channel seems like an abductee's dream come true?at last the media is taking us seriously. Our new poll asks: Will the Sci Fi series "Taken" make more people believe close encounters are... continued

China Net–No News, Just Porn

December 6, 2002
The Chinese block news and soft-core sex internet sites, but let porno sites through. They also block desperately needed AIDS information. A team from Harvard Law School spent 8 months testing more than 200,000 Chinese websites and discovered that nearly... continued

Radioactive Patients Set Off Alarms

December 6, 2002
Patients who are being treated for cancer with radioactive materials may set off anti-terrorism devices installed in public places. A 34-year-old man with a thyroid condition who was being treated with radioactive iodine was strip-searched twice in New York subway... continued

This Year’s Prize Goes to?

December 6, 2002
There are hundreds of literary prizes given out every year, all over the world, but a little-known award is the annual Literary Review Bad Sex prize given out in the U.K. for the worst description of sex in a contemporary... continued

Early Season Monster Storm Hits Eastern US

December 5, 2002
An unusually large early season winter storm has struck the United States from Oklahoma to New York, and will move up the eastern seaboard today. For the past three years, the flows of major ocean currents worldwide have been weakening,... continued

Dangerous Bugs in Jet Fuel

December 5, 2002
We're all worried about terrorist threats against airlines, but most of us are unaware of the dangerous microbes that live in aviation fuel that can mess up the planes' instruments, cause fuel leaks, and even eat through the wings if... continued

Mystery Site was Medieval Observatory

December 5, 2002
The recent eclipse has revealed that a puzzling medieval site in Africa is actually an astronomical observatory. The main part of the mysterious construction known as Great Zimbabwe is called the Great Enclosure, which was built in 1200 AD and... continued