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Antarctica is melting faster and further than ever before, environmental ministers meeting in Nairobi were warned in February, in a dramatic phone call direct from the frozen continent.

Famed yachtsman and explorer Sir Peter Blake called the ministers attending the United Nations Environment Program to say that he had just sailed his yacht through open water that had been frozen for hundreds of thousands of years.

The call came as representatives from 80 countries were debating about how to rescue international negotiations on global warming in the face of attempts by the U.S. and oil-producing countries to block them.
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A national culture of violence and large schools that breed alienation are behind the U.S. school shootings, according to Jerome Freiberg of the University of Houston. They happen most often at large rural or suburban schools, “where people would never believe it would happen.” He spoke at an international conference on school violence held in Paris on Tuesday.

According to Freiberg, the average child has witnessed 8,000 murders, through television, video games and the internet, by the time he finishes elementary school.
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Close encounter witness Gary Lowrey submitted an object thought to be a claw from an alien creature that was left behind during a violent abduction attempt at his home. Mr. Lowrey has had an extensive abduction and visitation sequence, which he described on Dreamland on February 18, 2001.

Mr. Lowrey submitted the object, pictured here, to laboratory analysis. Initial findings indicated that it was covered with a layer of fungus-like material. The scanning electron microscope revealed that deeper layers of the object appeared similar to keratin, the substance that makes up claws, fingernails and similar organs in many different species.
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A national culture of violence and large schools that breed alienation are behind the U.S. school shootings, according to Jerome Freiberg of the University of Houston. They happen most often at large rural or suburban schools, “where people would never believe it would happen.” He spoke at an international conference on school violence held in Paris on Tuesday.

According to Freiberg, the average child has witnessed 8,000 murders, through television, video games and the internet, by the time he finishes elementary school.

Freiberg feels that large schools fail to create bonds with students, who feel alienated and alone. Michel Janosz of the University of Montreal agrees. “The climate of belonging is one of the top indicators of a good school,” he said. read more