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While there are other intelligent animals living on the earth with us, only a few can be called conscious or self-aware. If you put a mirror in a cage with a bird, he will think he has a new friend. Dogs and cats scratch at mirrors, not realizing they are really seeing themselves. Now scientists have proved that dolphins can recognize their own images in a mirror.

This is a very rare ability that up until now has only been shown in humans and great apes, according to researcher Lori Marino. Marino and colleague Diana Reiss studied 2 teenaged dolphins. They put a mirror in a small, round pool that was connected to a larger, oval pool by an open gateway. The mirror was positioned just inside the gateway so it could not be seen from the larger pool.
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Anglican and Catholic priests are still performing the age old ritual of exorcism on patients, often with the sanction of their doctors. The Rev. Lisle Ryder regards exorcism as an alternative form of therapy for people with strong religious beliefs. ?Many people in distress come to the church for help because they have a religious frame of reference and are either put off from visiting a doctor because of the stigma of mental illness or because they don?t believe their problems have a scientific explanation,? he says.
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We have received word from the UFOXFiles webmaster that the internet conference scheduled for May 12, 2001, has been cancelled.

The site is now displaying a black screen. According to the webmaster, the site has been hacked and they cannot enter their server at all.

The first sign of trouble came on May 1, when the signup page became a black screen. It was then removed from the site.

The site is a complex one, full of multimedia and innovative design, and a hacker could present a very serious problem for them.

Chris Wyatt, the developer of the conference, has said that everybody who signed up for it will receive a refund via debit to their credit cards.
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According to an article published in the prestigious, peer-reviewed British Medical Journal, human Tinea imbricata has been found in gungans. Human Tinea imbricata, a superficial fungal infection of man, has an ornate appearance composed of concentric circles and polycyclic or serpiginous scaly plaques. The condition is common in several humid tropical regions, especially in parts of Polynesia and Melanesia. It is also reported occasionally in the Amazon basin and other tropical areas in both hemispheres. The precise distribution of tinea imbricata, however, has been poorly defined ever since the disease was named by Sir Patrick Manson, the father of tropical medicine.
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