Death Flights

January 23, 2004
There have been mysterious deaths on two British flights from Miami to England, on two consecutive days. Wired.com reports that A 19-year-old British woman died Monday while flying on a Virgin Atlantic plane from Miami to Heathrow Airport. The day... continued

Ice Block Just Misses Elderly Woman

January 23, 2004
The same conditions that recently produced a hole in the sky in Alabama have led to yet another giant ice block falling to Earth, this time in New Zealand. Patrick Gower and Natasha Harris write in the New Zealand Herald... continued

Extraordinary UFO Photo from Australia

January 23, 2004
The official website of the city of Whittlesea in Australia posted this photograph, which was taken by a traffic engineer at a railroad crossing, using a digital camera. As so often happens, he didn't notice the UFO until he downloaded... continued

Mars Rock on Earth

January 22, 2004
While the Rover is investigating rocks on Mars, scientists have discovered that a rock found in Morocco in 2001 came from Mars. The Rover is searching for water on Mars and this rock gives astronomers evidence that water once flowed... continued

Thousands of HRT Horses to be Slaughtered

January 22, 2004
The estrogen used for hormone replacement therapy came from the urine of specially kept pregnant mares. What's going to happen to all those horses, now that thousands of women are no longer taking HRT? The answer: they'll be slaughtered for... continued

Stephen Hawking Tortured?

January 22, 2004
62-year-old physicist Stephen Hawking, who is paralyzed by Lou Gehrig's Disease, is in the hospital because he may have been tortured by someone close to him. Hawking, best known for his book "A Brief History of Time," is now in... continued

Orgasm Machine

January 21, 2004
In the Woody Allen movie "Sleeper," Woody's body is frozen and he wakes up years later to discover that in order to have an orgasm, people simply go into an "orgasm box." Now fiction has become reality: researchers have created... continued

Foods that Heal

January 21, 2004
What you eat and drink can protect you from certain diseases and maybe even cure others. Eating a diet rich in antioxidants, which are present in foods like berries, tea and red wine, may help keep elderly brains healthy. Researcher... continued

Subway Dust May be Dangerous

January 21, 2004
Columbia University researchers have found that the New York City subway produces a large amount of steel dust, composed of iron, manganese and chromium, all of which is breathed in by subway riders in amounts 100 times greater than the... continued

ETs Changed the Way I Think

January 21, 2004
As part of our series of new Communion Letters, we present the experiences of Mort, who had childhood adventures with ETs that left him with a mind that works differently than other peoples' brains. NOTE: This news story, previously published... continued