The U.S. government has announced two accidents in which soybean crops in Iowa and Nebraska were contaminated by corn from the previous year that was genetically-engineered to contain medicine. “This is a failure at an elementary level,” says Jane Rissler of the Union of Concerned Scientists. “They couldn’t distinguish corn from soybeans and remove them from a field. That’s like failing nursery school.”
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Eating too much monosodium glutamate, which is used in many Chinese foods and processed foods, could make you go blind. Researchers at Hirosaki University in Japan found that rats fed on diets high in MSG have vision loss and thinner retinas.
MSG binds to receptors on retinal cells, destroying them and reducing the ability of the remaining cells to relay electrical signals to the brain. Researcher Hiroshi Ohguro says large amounts of MSG were used, up to 20% of the total diet in the group with the most eye damage. “Lesser amounts should be OK,” he says. “But the precise borderline amount is still unknown.”
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Three people in the same family have seen strange creatures in Vancouver and one of them heard a strange howling in the forest. Arnold Frank and his nephew Patrick Frank saw bigfoot twice. The first time, they heard a crashing sound and glimpsed him through the trees. “We just saw some real big orange eyes, real high off the ground,” Arnold Frank says. A few nights later, they saw the same creature run into the woods, as they drove along the highway. “We both figured it was too big to be a bear,” Frank says. “And bears don’t walk on two legs.”
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Peter Levenda, author of the popular book “Unholy Alliance,” reports from the far east: “In a strange broadcast this evening (Tuesday-Wednesday) on ‘Nightline’ on Malaysian television station TV3, there were confirmed reports of a UFO?actually one in a series of UFOs?sighted over Kota Kinabalu, the capital city of Malaysia?s Borneo province of Sabah.
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