Medical experts are investigating the deaths of threehunters from brain-destroying illnesses, in order todetermine whether chronic wasting disease has crossed fromanimals into humans in the U.S., just as Mad Cow disease didin Europe.

The men were friends who ate elk and deer meat at wild gamefeasts hosted by one of them in Wisconsin during the 1980sand ’90s. All three died in the 1990s. Investigators want toknow if the men contracted their diseases from the meat ofinfected game.
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Lately, researchers have been telling us that red wineprotects us from heart disease. Now they think it may not bethe wine that does it, but the lifestyle that goes alongwith it.

A new study of more than 4,400 U.S. men and women, findsthat those whose called wine their beverage of choice alsoate more healthful diets and were less likely to smoke thaneither those who favored beer or hard alcohol, or drinkerswith no preference.

Surprisingly, all drinkers eat better than teetotalers.According to the study, they exercised more and ate morevegetables (bar peanuts don?t count). The greatest healthdifferences were seen between wine drinkers and those whodrink other forms of alcohol. This may be because winedrinkers are less likely to smoke.
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How can you tell a fake crop circle from a real one? Withthe movie “Signs” coming out in August, we can expect to seemore faked circles than ever before. Lucy Pringle, who hasbeen researching crop circles for many years, will be onDreamland August 3 and she’ll give us some good advice aboutthis. On our July 27 Dreamland show, Charles Mallet pointedout that many of the manmade circles are large andintricate, but when experienced circle researchers see themup close, they can spot them every time.
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The London-based Ash Sharq al-Awsat newspaper has reportedthat al-Qaeda will carry out a series of terrorist actionsin August and Osama bin-Laden will appear on video shortlyafterwards.

Al-Qaeda sources told the paper that “Sheikh bin Laden isalive and will appear in a videotape after carrying out thisoperation to confirm that he is still alive and willcontinue fighting the United States.”

Ash-Sharq al-Awsat also reported that al-Qaeda is planningan attack on the U.S. to coincide with the first anniversaryof the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington.
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