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Heavy metals from industrial pollution and sewage sludge may poison the food we eat. Scientists used to think that living organisms, such as snails and worms, could only ingest heavy metals and other pollutants in the soil if they were dissolved in water, but now they know this isn’t true, meaning they could affect us too. Much of the heavy metal pollution on the West Coast comes from mercury emissions from coal burning in China that end up in rainfall over California.
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On November 4, 2002, President George W. Bush attended a Republican campaign rally at Northwest Regional Airport in Arkansas. Charles Huffer reports, “I had a chance to shake his hand. I reminded him that over two years ago he had promised me that he would finally tell us the truth about UFOs, if elected. I then asked President Bush if he intended to keep that UFO campaign promise. He looked me in the eyes and answered: ‘Yes.’ I forgot to ask when!”

Bush made his original promise to Huffer on July 28, 2000 in Springdale, Arkansas. The UFO promise was taped by ABC News and broadcast on Nightline that night, on CNN the next morning. A short interview with Huffer appeared on the front page of the Washington Post the next morning.
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The Raelian UFO Religion has claimed that a member of the sect has given birth to the first cloned human child. The baby, a little girl, was born on December 27. She is the first of five the Raelians claim to be cloning.

Brigitte Boisselier, president of the cloning organization Clonaid and member of the sect, announced that the baby was born by Caeserian section and that the birth went well.
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When a couple wants to test their ability to take care of a child before they have one, they usually get a pet. Now you can go a step further and for $80,000, you can get a childlike robot called AstroBoy. Sony is working on a robot that can interact with its “parents,” expressing emotions with words, songs and body language. Or you can get a hybrot that’s smart because its brain is made up of living cells harvested from the brain of a rat.

Steve Potter?s rat-controlled robot is a cylindrical machine the size of a coffee mug. It does its thinking with a network of neurons taken from the brains of rat embryos and placed on an electrode-activated silicon chip. This is the first time living neurons have been used to control a robot.
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