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Eighteen days ago, 70 drums of cyanide were stolen at gunpoint from a truck in Mexico. Every since, people in the states close to the Mexican border have been nervous about terrorists possibly using it to poison their drinking water.

Now their worries are over?most of the cyanide drums have been found near a dirt road in central Mexico. A policeman discovered them in the early morning hours outside the city of Honey, Puebla, 80 miles north of Mexico City, according to the city’s secretary, Juvencio Miranda.
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Prospective parents can now “feel” a baby in the womb with the aid of a computer system that converts ultrasound images into a tactile virtual picture. A 3D ultrasound image of the baby is generated by layering successive 2D pictures on top of one another. The computer then traces the features of the fetus and allows the 3D shapes to be felt using a device which resembles a robot arm.

“When the cursor touches a virtual object, the motors in the device kick in and that’s what lets you actually feel it,” says Tom Anderson of Novint, the New Mexico-based company that invented the system. “It’s a pretty amazing experience. You can feel the nose and reach down and touch the lips.”

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Global supplies of crude oil will peak as early as 2010 and then start to decline, ushering in an era of soaring energy prices and economic upheaval, according to an international group of oil specialists. They hope to persuade oil-dependent countries like the United States to stop wasting the Earth’s limited amount of fossil fuel. Americans, as the biggest consumers of energy, could suffer a particularly harsh lowering of their lifestyle.

“There is no factual data to support the general sense that the world will be awash in cheap oil forever,” says Matthew Simmons, an investment banker who helped advise President Bush’s campaign on energy policy. “We desperately need to find a new form of energy.”
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Besides facing imminent nuclear war with Pakistan, India faces devastation from earthquakes, as well.Following an exhaustive geophysical and historical analysis, Roger Bilham and his team from Colorado University?s geological sciences department believe there will be one or more massive earthquakes in India in the near future, threatening millions of lives.
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