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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

Scientific Studies Suggest Soul Survives

March 9, 2001
Taken together, two recent scientific studies offer powerful evidence that the soul persists after death, and that souls can be communicated with. The first of these studies involves near-death experiences in patients without enough electrical activity in their brains to... continued

Power Line Link to Childhood Cancer Established

March 9, 2001
High voltage power lines have been definitely linked to cancer for the first time. A new study, by the English scientist Richard Doll, who discovered the link between smoking and lung cancer in the 1960s, shows that children living near... continued

‘Claw’ Identified as Known Substance

March 9, 2001
Close encounter witness Gary Lowrey submitted an object thought to be a claw from an alien creature that was left behind during a violent abduction attempt at his home. Mr. Lowrey has had an extensive abduction and visitation sequence, which... continued