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The Rocket Guy
December 10, 2002Brian Walker is known as the "Rocket Guy" because he's built his own rocket, which he plans to ride into space. "Hopefully I'll launch from the black rock desert in Nevada," he says. He?s been working on Project RUSH (Rapid... continued
Mayan Temples Have Sound Effects
December 10, 2002If you clap your hands in front of the 1,100-year-old Temple of Kukulcan, in the ancient Mayan city of Chichen Itza, the pyramid chirps a reply in the voice of the sacred quetzal bird. "Now I have heard echoes in... continued
Warming Up in Strange Places
December 10, 2002Melting was so severe on the Greenland ice sheet this summer that some of the scientists there weren?t sure they would be able to get off. "We had come in with a fixed-wing aircraft landing on skis," says Konrad Steffen... continued
Cancer Capital of the World
December 8, 2002Marin 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, 2002Doctors 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, 2002Ray 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, 2002The 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, 2002The 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, 2002Patients 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, 2002There 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