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The Alps are Collapsing
August 12, 2003Scientists think global warming will melt the Alps over the next twenty years, causing the mountains to collapse into piles of rubble. The mountain range is made up of rocks, with an icy crust of permafrost holding them together. This... continued
Plea for a Missing Pilot
August 12, 2003On June 23rd, we posted a story about Benjamin Padilla, who piloted the Boeing 727 that vanished after taking off in Africa. The plane took off from Luanda Airport in Angola without permission and no one knows where it was... continued
Climate Change is Coming Fast, but We Can Fix It?Easily!
August 12, 2003In his new Journal, Whitley writes about the hows and whys of global warming and says, "?The world remains rudderless and leaderless regarding global warming. European leaders, relying on the untested and probably hopeless mandates reached under the Kyoto protocol,... continued
New Contact Meditation
August 12, 2003Click "Listen Now" on our masthead to join Whitley in a short meditation for extraterrestrial contact. By the end of August, Mars will be closer to Earth than it's been since prehistoric times, and when Mars is close to Earth,... continued
Internet Worm Spreading Fast
August 11, 2003An Internet worm detected Monday is spreading around the world like wildfire. The worm has has been spreading rapidly across the Internet, according to the CERT Coordination Center, a government funded security watchdog group at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.... continued
Why Some Students Die Young
August 11, 2003The image of the tortured artist may be true?researchers have found that science and medical students live longer and healthier lives after graduation than art students do. This is despite the fact that the biggest smokers and drinkers are medical... continued
Moving Toes onto Hands
August 11, 2003Moving body parts around seems to be the latest trend in plastic surgery. We wrote about an Australian artist who is having an extra ear implanted on his arm just for fun. Now a man in Wales has had two... continued
How to Handle a Grouchy Parrot
August 11, 2003Parrots live a long time and like most people, they get grouchier as they get older. Some pet owners can't take it anymore and dump their pets in the U.K.'s National Parrot Sanctuary, where "parrot whisperer" Steve Nichols bonds with... continued
Why Are Our Soldiers Getting Sick in Iraq?
August 10, 2003Joyce Riley VonKleist, of the American Gulf War Veterans Association, writes that nearly half of the 697,000 Gulf War I Veterans are ill and have received no adequate diagnosis or treatment. Whenever veterans become ill, the term "mystery illness" seems... continued
What’s in That Tattoo Ink?
August 10, 2003People who get tattoos may be putting poisonous chemicals into their skin because they don't know what ingredients are in the dyes. But tattoos and body piercing will soon be passe anyway?the newest fad will be creating new body parts... continued