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When the Mississippi flooded last month, 180,000 tons of sand were shoveled into more than 9 million sandbags in towns from Illinois to Minnesota, to help hold back the waters. Now the sandbags have become sodden, polluted liabilities and removing them has become a public health issue.

?They?re wet and fishy,? says Chief Larry Granneman of the Niota Volunteer Fire Department, which used more than 200,000 sandbags to shore up the town?s aged, battered levee.

They don?t expect to get much help, when it comes time to clean up the bags. ?It?s more glamorous to fight the flood than to clean up when the flood waters recede,? says Mike Chamness, Illinois Emergency Management Director.
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West Nile Virus, which has plagued Northeastern summers since 1999, has returned. Dead crows in two New Jersey communities have tested positive for the virus. When the deadly virus first burst into New York, it caused an epidemic that left 7 people dead, and last year 2 people died from it. Symptoms include headache, high fever, neck stiffness, stupor, disorientation, coma, tremors, convulsions, muscle weakness, paralysis and?rarely?death.
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I was recently asked to host the world’s first internet UFO conference, at which the results of a further analysis of a piece of material allegedly from the 1947 Roswell crash were to be publicized.

The conference was scheduled for May 12, 2001. Last week, the conference was cancelled. Nevertheless, we have continued to work on the sample.

An isotopic analysis done in 1997 showed that the various elements present in the sample had isotopic ratios that were not consistent with earth elements, meaning that they couldbe from another planet.

We performed an analysis of the shape of the object, which showed it to be a lip or tube with an approximate five inch diameter, thus proving that it was manufactured.
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On Tuesday, May 8, So Weird, BBC Online’s paranormal site, launched a live UFO video cam based in Bonnybridge, Britain’s UFO hotspot. During a three-year period in the 1990s, there were as many as 3,000 sightings of UFOs in this town of only 5,000 people.

The camera is mounted on the Royal Hotel and points in the direction of most of the reported activity. It will be live from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. daily (that?s 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. EST in the U.S.) and will send images every two minutes. If users see something, they can “grab” the image and post it to So Weird. The best of these sightings will be put into a gallery on the site.

This was done before with So Weird’s Ghostcam, based in the haunted house Llancaiach Fawr Manor in South Wales.
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