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70 Foot Wave Strikes Cruise Ship
April 18, 2005WASHINGTON, April 17 (AFP) - A freak wave towering areported 21 meters (70 feet) struck a luxury cruise ship inthe mid-Atlantic, forcing the 2,200-passenger capacity shipto port for repairs in South Carolina over the weekend.The 965 foot Norwegian Dawn was... continued
Chinese Prejudiced Against Condi Because She’s Black Woman
April 17, 2005China is one of those rare modern societies that is notracially mixed?the presence of different races in thepopulation, which is second nature to us, doesn't occurthere. Despite the popularity of U.S. media in China (andall over the world), even Caucasian... continued
Does Dandruff Change the Climate?
April 17, 2005New Scientist reports that German atmospheric researcherRuprecht Jaenicke took air samples from Germany, Siberia,the Amazon rainforest, the Atlantic ocean and from bubblesin Greenland ice. When he analyzed the particles he found inthese samples, he found that 25% of them were... continued
Thousands of Salmon Missing
April 15, 2005Where are the Salmon? More than 200,000 salmon should haveshown up in the Columbia river to spawn by now, but only afew hundred have been seen. The absence of the wild Chinooksalmon is a disturbing environmental mystery. The best casescenario... continued
Beetles Named for Politicians
April 14, 2005Newswise - President George Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney andSecretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld may not all get alibrary, airport or highway named after them. But each hashad a slime-mold beetle named in his honor. Slime mold is an interesting... continued
Why Did the World Trade Towers Collapse?
April 14, 2005There's been an unsubstantiated rumor flying around theinternet that "gonzo" journalist Hunter S. Thompson waswriting an article on the collapse of the World Trade Centerwhen he killed himself, implying that there remains asecretabout what made those towers collapse when planes... continued
Lethal Flu Virus Sent Around the World
April 13, 2005In what was either an accident or abioterrorismattack, potentially lethal samples of the Asian flu weresent to laboratories around the world by a U.S. testingorganization. This flu strain appeared between 1957 and1968 and killed four million people worldwide. Was this... continued
This Week on Dreamland: Conspiracies of the Past?and Present!
April 13, 2005Steven Sora is one of the best historical researchers weknow, and he's come out with two books at the same time, oneon his most recent Templar discoveries and the other onrelics?which are real and which are fake. And some of... continued
Horrific Hailstorm Part of Global Warming
April 12, 2005In a scenario right out of the film "The Day AfterTomorrow," Hailstones "as big as eggs" have killed 18 peopleand injured 25 in China. In one area, over 25,000 houseswere destroyed, along with local crops. Di Fang writes in the... continued
It’s Dangerous to be Too Clean
April 12, 2005Newswise - You should not use antibacterial soaps and cleaningproducts, because they can expose you to high amounts ofchloroform. The chemical triclosan, which is present in manyof these products, reacts with tap water to form thedangerous chemical chloroform. Chloroform has... continued