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Twentieth Century Fox won a ferocious bidding battle for “The Day After Tomorrow,” a script based in part on the book ?The Coming Global Superstorm? by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber. This will be a big-budget, high-concept film in which the world is ravaged by global warming. The picture will be directed by Roland Emmerich, who directed “Independence Day,” which was one of the biggest grossing films ever, with $900 million worldwide.
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More than half of all Americans breathe polluted air that can damage their health because the government doesn’t fully enforce clean air laws, according to the American Lung Association. Standards are in place to cut back pollution, but since they are not being enforced, nearly 400 counties in the United States have smog levels above the legal limits.
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Toxic mold is becoming a serious problem nationwide. “Oh this is no hype. This is real. This is very real. And people get very ill from this,” says Elena Walker, one of its victims.

Walker works at the Houston, Texas office of the IRS and says her job is taxing her health. “Three months after I began working, I broke out with hives. It [swelled] up my eyes. I looked like I’d been in a fight with Mike Tyson,” Walker says. “It’s not an allergy. It’s a toxin. It’s a poison.”
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Scientists at Bashkir State University have found proof of an ancient, highly developed civilization. A large relief map, made by an unknown technology and found in 1999, shows a region in Russia. Today?s military has similar maps of the same area. The ancient map shows civil engineering works, such as a system of channels and powerful dams. It also contains inscriptions. At first, scientists thought these were written in the Old Chinese language, but they have decided that they were written in hieroglyphics of unknown origin. They haven?t been able to decode the language.
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