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How Can You Be Sure Those Dishes are Clean?
April 3, 2007The highest bacteria counts can sometimes be found where you least expect them. Kitchen counters are breeding places for germs?but what about restaurants? Most restaurants use automatic dishwashers, but small restaurants and bars often wash dishes and glassware by hand.... continued
Anne’s Easter Wish
April 2, 2007In Anne's new diary, she has an Easter wish for everyone, and it's not the one you expect! NOTE: This news story, previously published on our old site, will have any links removed. continued
West Coast Polluted by Coal Burned in China
April 2, 2007More than three-quarters of the dangerous particulate pollution known as black carbon that blows through the West Coast in the spring comes from Asian sources. China's new industrialization movement burns a lot of coal, which means that we won't be... continued
Human Genes Used to Create Super Chimp
April 1, 2007A chimpanzee capable of doing simple tasks such asrepetitive factory work has been created in the laboratoryby modifying the brain of a chimpanzee embryo with humanDNA. The chimp has a measurable IQ of 68, well within therange necessary to accomplish... continued
Genital Fire Outrages Surgery Patient
April 1, 2007Surgeons in Denmark accidentally set fire to a patient'sgenitals while doing routine surgery to remove a mole on hisleft buttock, local authorities in Kjellerup report. The 30year old man had an attack of flatulence during the surgery,which led to a... continued
Papal Palm Sunday Procession Gets Lost
April 1, 2007For seven hundred years, the annual papal Palm Sundayprocession has followed approximately the same route, butthis year the pope took a wrong turn, leading thousands downalleys, through a coffee bar and into a rail yard, where theprocession degenerated into a... continued
No More April Fools Stories
April 1, 2007In the past, Unknowncountry.com has posted false stories onApril 1, in an attempt to dupe unwitting readers. Often,this was successful, as readers were convinced by storiessuch as one that maintained that elderly Tyrannosaurus Rexesused gigantic canes when they became arthritic... continued
Jet Has Close Call With Meteorite
March 30, 2007Flaming debris that was moving so fast that it broke the sound barrier almost hit a jet plane that was landing in New Zealand. NASA says it couldn?t have come from a satellite, so experts think that the passenger jet... continued
Mysterious Hexagon in Space
March 30, 2007A mysterious hexagon-shaped image can be seen in space, floating above the storms that swirl around the north pole on Saturn. Astronomers want to know what it is. In New Scientist, Maggie Mckee reports that astronomers have long known about... continued
Are They Coming and If So, What Do We Do?
March 30, 2007In Whitley Strieber's provocative new journal, he writes, "It is possible that the visitors are about to show up. I am not saying that this will happen, but only that this is a time when it could happen, and there... continued