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Recent studies show that Americans are absorbing toxic chemicals in their bodies as part of everyday life. We’re ingesting low levels of chemicals simply by eating, drinking, breathing and touching things. There are more than 70,000 chemicals used in the U.S., with 2,000 new compounds introduced every year. Almost everything we use, from carpets to cosmetics, is filled with toxins. Chemicals get into our bodies through pollution, food additives, pesticide residues, and consumer products from paints to plastics, as well as from many of the building materials in our homes and offices.
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According to the CIA, North Korea has a ballistic missile capable of hitting the United States. When CIA Director George Tenet was asked by the Senate if North Korea can hit us, he said, “I think the declassified answer, is yes, they can do that.” He also said it’s likely that North Korea has produced as many as two plutonium-based nuclear weapons. According to Defense Intelligence Agency Director Vice Adm. Lowell Jacoby, the North Korean missile has not yet been flight tested.

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Scientists finally think they may be able to explain why we get the hiccups. French researchers think it may be because our ancient ancestors lived in the sea and had gills. Scientists have been searching for the reason we hiccup for hundreds of years, because it doesn?t seem to have any purpose. If hiccups were supposed to keep food or fluid out of the lungs, they would be a cough-like response, not an intake of breath. Hiccups are sudden contractions of the muscles used for breathing in. Just after the muscles start to move, the glottis (which keeps the food out of our airway) shuts off the windpipe to produce a “hic.” Ultrasound scans show that two-month-old babies hiccup in the womb, before they breathe.
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A new lake has been born in Nepal, that’s half a mile long and over 300 feet deep. It’s also 4 miles above sea level, because twenty-five years ago it was a glacier. “It’s an important piece of evidence that the climate is actually warming,” says Chris Folland of the U.K. Hadley Center for Climate Research. And old records kept by convicts in Australia show that the ocean level there has been rising for 160 years.
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