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Evidence of Major Asteroid Hit

November 15, 2001
About 35 million years ago, when dinosaurs were already extinct but the Appalachian Mountains were still covered in tropical rain forests, an asteroid more than a mile wide, moving at supersonic speed, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off North America.... continued

Foot & Mouth Disease Arrived in Dust Storm

November 15, 2001
Britain?s foot and mouth epidemic may have been caused by a cloud of infected dust blown from the Sahara, according to scientists. They have linked the outbreak to a massive cloud of sand that swirled out of northern Africa several... continued

Bin Laden Nuclear Plans Found

November 15, 2001
Osama bin Laden?s detailed plans for nuclear devices and other terrorist bombs were found in one of its Kabul headquarters. The partly burned documents were left in a hastily abandoned safe house. Written in Arabic, German, Urdu and English, the... continued

Extinction Can Be Good for You

November 15, 2001
An newly-evolved species has a much better chance of surviving for a long time if it first appears right after a mass extinction. University of Cincinnati geologist Arnold Miller has found that the trend holds true no matter what was... continued

Sinking Nation Asked to Accept Refugees

November 14, 2001
Four months after refusing to take in migrants from the tiny, sinking Pacific nation of Tuvalu, Australia has asked Tuvalu to take in Middle East emigrants seeking asylum. Australia has turned away about 1,500 asylum seekers since August, sending many... continued

There?s Money in Meteorites

November 14, 2001
A small group of people manage to make money at a little-known job: meteorite hunting. They use metal detectors to comb the Southwest in search of bits of meteorite that are more valuable than gold. ?Without a doubt, I have... continued

Ex-GI Smuggled Secrets to Bin Laden

November 14, 2001
Ali A. Mohamed, a former U.S. Army sergeant who is now in prison, secretly worked for Osama bin Laden?s Al Qaeda network. From 1987 to 1989, he was stationed at Fort Bragg, where he obtained sensitive, top secret documents showing... continued

German Press Says Kabul 8 Out

November 14, 2001
The eight Western aid workers who were arrested by the Taliban for distributing Christian literature may have been released, according to German newspaper reports. When the Northern Alliance invaded the Afghanistan capitol of Kabul, they were taken by the Taliban... continued

Remote Viewers Used Against Bin Laden

November 13, 2001
U.S. intelligence agencies are recruiting psychics to help predict future terrorist attacks and to find Osama Bin Laden. The U.S. government established the remote viewing program known as Stargate in the 1970s to detect Soviet weapons, locate hostages, and to... continued

Asteroid Could Escalate War

November 13, 2001
An asteroid impact could be mistaken for an attack by a Middle Eastern country and ?could certainly trigger a regional if not global nuclear exchange,? says Brian Marsden, an astronomer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This assumes... continued