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For the first time in 17 years, the hurricane season has gone 97 days without a hurricane, and scientists don?t know why. The last time the Atlantic-Caribbean season ran this long with no hurricanes was 1984, until Hurricane Diana arrived on September 10. This year there have been five tropical storms but none have developed the 74 mph winds necessary for them to be classified as hurricanes. Scientists had been predicting a major hurricane season.
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A tornado in Canada cut through fields filled with genetically modified canola plants. ?The tornado actually picked up the canola plants and actually wrapped them around these trees,? says farmer Vic Martens. The seeds from that crop were blown into other canola fields up to 6 ? miles away, raising new concerns about the uncontrolled spread of genetically modified seeds.

Brian Ellis, a professor of plant biotechnology, says the problem needs to be studied. ?This is something the regulators never even thought of. It just goes to show that you can?t control something once you get it out into real nature,? he says.
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The Wednesday, September 5 edition of Filers Files reports that on July 25 the National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS) sent a Freedom of Information Act request to the FAA asking for the radar tapes for July 14-15, the period of the Carteret UFO sightings in New Jersey. NIDS also requested the tower voice tapes from Newark International Airport. NIDS is a privately funded organization in Las Vegas that studies anomalous events.
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The Code Red computer worm is finally slowing down, after infecting thousands of computers. The security company that first discovered the computer virus says the swift-moving worm might have been stopped much sooner if not for the FBI?s caution about publicizing security threats.

The worm hit more than 700,000 computers in July and August 2001, depositing a virus that was then automatically sent on to the user?s mailing list. It also attacked government internet sites, such as the White House website. The volume of forwarded messages engendered by the worm slowed down all internet traffic.
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