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Hoof and Mouth Disease Slams UK Farms, Europe Threatened
February 26, 2001Tens of thousands of farm animals are being slaughtered across the United Kingdom in a desperate effort to halt the spread of hoof and mouth disease. The disease has reached the large Devon farming region, already hard-hit by BSE, and... continued
Massive Winter Storms Sweep Hemisphere
February 26, 2001Massive storms left at least twenty people dead in the United States and are now dumping snow on Scotland and are expected to spread into northern Europe today. A tornado spread damage along a 23-mile path in Mississippi, while more... continued
A New Whitley’s Journal–More High Level Strangeness
February 25, 2001I have been living with high-level strangeness most of my life. As a child, I took it for granted. When it re-entered my life in December of 1985, I was shocked to my depths. Since then, the experiences have been... continued
Kids Find Mysterious Boulders in Mars Photos
February 25, 2001Baffling boulders have been discovered on Mars by an international group of students who won the chance to look at Mars through the camera on board NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. The students stumbled upon a surprising cluster of dark-colored... continued
Britain Braces for Food Shortages
February 24, 2001British food retailers warned that emergency measures adopted by the government to attempt to halt the spread of hoof-and-mouth disease, discovered in the UK last week, are liable to cause food shortages in the near term. All importation of live... continued
Science Discovery Confirms Secret School ‘Lesson’
February 23, 2001In Whitley Strieber's 1997 memoir of his childhood with the 'visitors,' the Secret School (now out of print) he writes that he was taught that a comet impacted the earth 250 million years ago, and that its effects, plus a... continued
Iran Missile Success Points to Defense Needs
February 22, 2001On September 21, 2000, Iran successfully tested the Shahab-3 intermediate range missile, and shortly thereafter commenced deployment of this missile system. The Shahab-3 is capable of delivering a warhead a distance of 825 miles. Israel is well within range of... continued
Why the Body Attacks Itself
February 22, 2001Autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, lupus, fibromyalgia and some types of asthma, are among the most mysterious of human maladies. Why do our bodies suddenly attack and destroy themselves? Scientists now say that the trigger may be... continued
How Long Can We Live?
February 22, 2001Scientists have long reassured us that, with the new advances in nutrition and medicine, we should all be able to live to be 100. But now researchers who have analyzed the death trends between 1985 and 1995 say that even... continued
Astronauts Can Learn from Bears
February 22, 2001One of the main problems that astronauts face on long space journeys is the loss of muscle tissue, due to long periods without enough exercise. Bears solved this problem long ago-they lose hardly any muscle when they hibernate. Henry Harlow... continued