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U.S. Can?t Avoid More Terrorism Attacks

April 29, 2002
CIA Deputy Director for Operations James Pavitt warns that a new terrorist attack is unavoidable, despite all efforts to prevent it and the fact that the CIA is now "stealing more secrets" than ever. "Now for the hard truth. Despite... continued

Provocative New ?Insight? Reveals Drug Company Scandals

April 27, 2002
Want to know how the drug manufacturers interfere with the kind of health care you receive? Read this new insight piece by Burton Goldberg. To read the ?Insight? piece,click here. NOTE: This news story, previously published on our old site,... continued

CIA Warns of China Cyberattack

April 26, 2002
According to a classified CIA report, intelligence officials believe the Chinese military is planning wide-scale cyber-attacks on American and Taiwanese computer networks, including Internet-linked military systems. The wave of hacking attacks would be launched by Chinese students. The new CIA... continued

Forget Winter Vacations When Caribbean Drowns

April 26, 2002
According to the new chief of the UN climate advisory, small islands are in severe danger of drowning as climate change raises sea levels. "Small island states will be really badly affected. A lot of them will be submerged -... continued

Ginger Fights Crime

April 26, 2002
You hear the siren and see the flashing lights out of the corner of your eye?not another ticket! You pull over and along comes?a cop on a Segway scooter? It could happen to you in Atlanta, where the police are... continued

Lighting Strikes Inside an Airplane

April 26, 2002
According to research by Dr. Michael Cherington of the Lightning Data Center at St. Anthony Hospital in Denver and his colleagues, it?s possible to be struck by lightning while inside an airplane. Their report describes the first known case of... continued

Mystery Diseases Strike Worldwide

April 25, 2002
The death of popular young actor Ricardo Yan, age 27, in the Philippines has put the spotlight on a mystery ailment that kills healthy Asian men in their sleep. Filipinos call it "bangungot" or the nightmare syndrome. Patients with the... continued

3 Clone Babies Due Soon

April 25, 2002
Italian fertility specialist Severino Antinori says three women are currently pregnant with clones. "There are three pregnancies," Antinori says. Two of them are in Russia and one in an "Islamic state," according to Antinori. He says that they are six... continued

Destruction of World?s Largest Coral Reef

April 25, 2002
An epidemic of coral bleaching is effecting the world?s largest coral reef: the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. An extensive survey of the Great Barrier Reef carried out over the last month has revealed "widespread bleaching", says Terry Done, chief... continued

Cancer From Food You Eat Everyday

April 25, 2002
Bread, biscuits, potato chips and french fries contain alarmingly high quantities of acrylamide, a substance believed to cause cancer, according to Swedish scientists. The research carried out at Stockholm University in cooperation with Sweden's National Food Administration, a government food... continued