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Fewer Monarchs Killed than Thought

March 14, 2001
Reports that 22 million Monarch butterflies were killed by being sprayed with pesticide have been greatly exaggerated, according to the World Wildlife Fund and American Monarch researchers. "It's been overblown," says Monica Missrie, Monarch butterfly coordinator for the WWF in... continued

New Administration Goes to Work for Business

March 14, 2001
The new administration has been staffed primarily by big business executives. In fact, there has not been an administration so deeply connected to big business and the banking community since that of Herbert Hoover, which was ended by the election... continued

Foot and Mouth Spreads, US Bans Meat from EU, Argentina

March 14, 2001
Officials in Argentina have confirmed that at least one case offoot-and-mouth disease has been found there. Argentina is the world's 4th largest beef-producing nation, and provides the beef that supplies many U.S. fast food franchises. The United States has banned... continued

Foot-and-Mouth Pyres May Spread Mad Cow

March 13, 2001
Britain's blazing foot and mouth funeral pyres risk giving people the human form of Mad Cow Disease, the British government admitted. The carcasses of animals found to have hoof and mouth disease are being burned in order to stop the... continued

Hoof-and-Mouth Appears in France

March 13, 2001
The French government has lost its long battle to keep Hoof-and-mouth disease out of France. The first confirmed cases were reported there today. France has slaughtered tens of thousands of animals that were imported from Britain before the disease was... continued

Ice Chunk from Nowhere Strikes Home

March 12, 2001
A 3 pound chunk of ice crashed through the roof of a house owned by a 63 year old woman in Sydney, Australia last Wednesday. No one was hurt when the block smashed to pieces on the bathroom floor. The... continued

Glowing Chicken Bone Mystery

March 12, 2001
John Fairley went outside last Tuesday night to feed leftover chicken to his German shepherd, when he noticed that the chicken bones were glowing green. Nine people had eaten the chicken for dinner the night before. On Tuesday night and... continued

MIR May Bring Back Super-Fungus

March 12, 2001
Biologists are worried about powerful mutant strains of fungus which the Russian space station Mir will bring back to Earth when it crashes into the ocean near New Zealand later this month. Yuri Karash, a Russian space expert, thinks the... continued

Antarctica ?Melting Before Our Eyes?

March 12, 2001
Antarctica is melting faster and further than ever before, environmental ministers meeting in Nairobi were warned in February, in a dramatic phone call direct from the frozen continent. Famed yachtsman and explorer Sir Peter Blake called the ministers attending the... continued

Bullying and Murder in Our Schools

March 9, 2001
A national culture of violence and large schools that breed alienation are behind the U.S. school shootings, according to Jerome Freiberg of the University of Houston. They happen most often at large rural or suburban schools, "where people would never... continued