High voltage power lines have been definitely linked to cancer for the first time. A new study, by the English scientist Richard Doll, who discovered the link between smoking and lung cancer in the 1960s, shows that children living near power lines run a small but significant increased risk of leukemia. Researchers have long suspected there was a connection, but haven’t been able to prove it until now.
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Taken together, two recent scientific studies offer powerful evidence that the soul persists after death, and that souls can be communicated with.

The first of these studies involves near-death experiences in patients without enough electrical activity in their brains to generate memory, and the second shows that mediums are far better at determining information about the dead than ordinary individuals in a control group. The first study suggests that something other than the brain perceives and remembers, and the second that there is some sort of communication between the dead and living people who are skilled at the process. For the full Insight article, click here.
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Loggers in Mexico may have deliberately wiped out 22 million Monarch butterflies in order to regain the use of forest land that has been set aside for a protected butterfly habitat. Monarchs migrate each year to the same area of Mexico, 70 miles west of Mexico City, from Canada and the U.S.They have been making this 3,000 mile journey for over 10,000 years.

For 5 months every year, the trees in this 216 square mile area are festooned with the orange and black butterflies. Environmentalist Homero Aridjis reported that this year loggers sprayed pesticide on them in order to regain control over the land.
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The death rate from cardiac arrest rose among young American adults in the 1990’s, despite advances in research and medicine. They were 10 percent higher in men and 32 percent higher in women.

Cardiac arrest occurs when the heart suddenly quits pumping in an organized way, stopping blood circulation. Unless victims are quickly revived by defibrillators, they soon die or suffer irreversible brain damage. It is still rare for people under 35 and accounts for only one percent of the heart attack deaths, but the trend upwards is troubling to researchers.
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