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Greg Avery, the MUFON State Director for Louisiana, has become one of the world?s most dogged orb hunters, and he has the pictures to prove it. You can see a sample of them below. Click on any image to make it larger.

But what are orbs? Why doesn?t Greg think they?re just out of focus raindrops or dust particles? And what DOES he think they are? Tune into Dreamland Saturday night from 6 to 10 pm Pacific time, or listen to the archives starting Saturday night, right after the show.
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9 months after Afghanistan?s fundamentalist rulers caused a global outcry by demolishing the huge 5th-century Buddhas of the Bamiyan valley, the new government is planning to rebuild what was Afghanistan?s greatest archaeological treasure. Japan, China and other countries with large Buddhist populations have offered to help pay for the reconstruction.
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Papua New Guinea is planning to move the 1,500 people of the Carteret or Kilinailau Island to another home as the rising sea moves up their coastline. Six islands form the almost circular Carteret atoll, which is about 10 miles in diameter. They?re sharing the fate of the Polynesians of Takuu, 105 miles to the east, whose community of 2,500 people is also sinking beneath the Pacific.

Carteret and Takuu lie at the intersection of two giant fault lines which routinely produce earthquakes of up to magnitudes seven and eight. While they seldom suffer damage to buildings from them since they are so small, the quakes are causing the islands themselves to sink.
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PPL Therapeutics of Edinburgh, Scotland has cloned 5 pigs with ?knock out? genes, meaning that their organs can be transplanted to humans. They were born on Christmas day and are named Noel, Angel, Star, Joy and Mary. They contain special genes prevent the human immune system rejecting their transplanted organs.

PPL cloned the piglets with help from the scientists who cloned Dolly the sheep in 1997.The company has also successfully introduced human DNA into animals such as cows, which then produce proteins in their milk which can be used in human medicine.
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