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Warning of July 4 Attack

July 2, 2002
The FBI has issued regular warnings of possible terrorist attacks since September 11 and none of them have come to pass. We?re relieved, but it has caused us to start to tune these warnings out. The FBI is afraid the... continued

A Surprising Antidepressant

July 1, 2002
Semen makes you happy, according to a report comparing women who have sex using condoms with those who have unprotected sex. The study shows that the women who were directly exposed to semen, because a condom wasn't used, were less... continued

GM Fish Could Wipe Out Species

July 1, 2002
Researchers have discovered that genetically tinkering with fish can cause the opposite effect of evolution: the survival of the LEAST fit and the eventual extinction of a species. It would take just one genetically-modified fish to wipe out local populations... continued

Fighting Fires from Space

July 1, 2002
With fires rampaging through the western United States, we desperately need some new, sophisticated fire fighting equipment. Now we have it: the GOES satellite, a weather satellite 23,000 miles away, in orbit around the Earth. U.S. and Canadian firefighters are... continued

Schools Bring Terrorists to the U.S.

July 1, 2002
"In a very critical sense, the U.S. has delegated its role in selecting immigrants to thousands of institutions whose incentives do not coincide with the national interest," says George J. Borjas of the Center for Immigration Studies, an organization that... continued

Is There Such a Thing as SHC?

June 28, 2002
Throughout history, there have been stories and even photos of people who were victims of Spontaneous Human Combustion. One of these occurred in 1951, when Mary Hardy Reeser burned up. Little was left of her body?the chair she was sitting... continued

How to Avoid Dangerous Steaks

June 28, 2002
One of the joys of summer is being able to slap a steak on the charcoal grill. There's only one problem: grilling meat can cause it to become cancerous. Carcinogenic heterocyclic amines are created from the amino acids in the... continued

What Makes GM Crops Dangerous?

June 28, 2002
The United Nations World Food Summit met recently to decide whether genetically-modified crops will save poor countries from famine or will contaminate normal crops, presenting a danger to food supplies around the world. Despite a ban on planting GM corn... continued

First World Pollution Causes African Starvation

June 28, 2002
We?re accustomed to seeing the faces of pitiful, starving African children staring out at us from advertisements. They?re emaciated, standing on parched and cracked earth, and appealing to us for aid. Now it turns out we may be the cause... continued

TV Causes Anorexia

June 27, 2002
Doctors now have concrete evidence that TV watching causes eating disorders in teenage girls. It?s long been suspected that skinny actresses like Ally McBeal make teenage girls feel fat, even if they?re not. Now a major study examining the impact... continued