2019-03-01
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Jesus Box Called a Fake
June 20, 2003A stone box that may be the oldest evidence of the life of Jesus has been declared a fake by archaeologists. The ossuary is the kind that was used by Jewish families to bury the bones of relatives in the... continued
Global Warming Removed from EPA Report
June 20, 2003The White House has removed references to problems caused by global warming from next week's Environmental Protection Agency report on the state of the environment. The report was commissioned in 2001 by EPA head Christie Whitman, who is leaving her... continued
New Wave of Cat Mutilations
June 20, 2003Brandon Griggs writes in the Salt Lake Tribune that a wave of cat mutilations is going on there. Our Dreamland science reporter, Linda Moulton Howe, has reported on similar mutilations from all over the country, yet this story, like most... continued
Dreamland: Getting Ready for Contact
June 20, 2003Dreamland is always free. To listen, click on "Listen Now" on the upper right side of the masthead above, under the word Dreamland. You need the free Windows Media Player to listen. To get it, click here. Mars is going... continued
Iraqi News Says Saddam Captured by U.S.
June 20, 2003The Iraqi newspaper Sada Al Watan says a unit of the U.S. Fourth Infantry Division captured Saddam Hussein, his son Qusay and his secretary Abid Hamid Mahmoud Tikriti in a farmhouse in Tikrit earlier this week, but U.S. Central Command... continued
Truce
June 19, 2003Sixty descendents of the Hatfield and McCoy families, who waged Appalachia's most famous feud, have signed a truce. At least a dozen people from both families were killed in over 100 years of fighting. The whole thing started with an... continued
Is Your Stuff Fake?
June 19, 2003Michael S. James writes for abcnews.com that the scotch you love to drink, your favorite shampoo, that watch you like to wear?all these and many other items you use and own could all be fakes. There are fake versions of... continued
Clone that Tree!
June 19, 2003When you find the oldest tree in the world, what do you do??You clone it, of course. The gnarled and twisted Methuselah bristlecone pine, discovered in the California mountains, isn't very pretty, but it is almost 5,000 years old, making... continued
New Way to Catch Killers
June 19, 2003FBI profilers have recently identified several serial killers as being white?when they were actually black?which may have delayed their capture. Since race is one of the easiest ways to identify someone, police departments want to figure out how to identify... continued
UFOs in the U.K., Crop Circles in Italy
June 18, 2003A triangular UFO that leaves a shining trail behind it has been seen in the Worcestershire area of the U.K., and crop circles?which are appearing all over the world?have now turned up in the wheat fields of Italy. There's been... continued