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People who keep parrots are as close to them as other pet owners are to their cats and dogs, so imagine how these pet owners feel when government officials, who are trying to control the spread of a deadly bird disease called Exotic Newcastle, come into their homes and kill their pet bird?often right in front of them. So far, the disease has killed 3.4 million birds in Southern California, many of them household parrots and parakeets. The state and federal government is talking to everyone from mail carriers to nosy neighbors, trying to identify the owners of sick birds. If a bird is suspected of having the disease, it’s killed immediately.
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China, Hong Kong?and even Toronto?are infested with cases of SARS and it’s spreading rapidly. We know it originated in Asia, so why is Japan free from the disease? Experts says it’s all due to handwashing. Japanese children are nagged into washing their hands and gargling after meals from the time they enter elementary school, and the habit persists into adulthood. Infectious disease expert Hiroko Sagara says, “I think a lot of people still do wash their hands.”
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As the U.S. military gains access to Saddam’s palaces, we see silk upholstered antique furniture, ornate wall carvings, marble, fine carpets and elaborate light fixtures on the nightly news. But these places aren’t where Saddam went to relax and have fun. Now U.S. soldiers have discovered Saddam?s “love nest,” and as one soldier says, “It’s shagadelic!”

The town house resembles the set of an Austin Powers movie, or maybe the Playboy mansion. There’s a mirrored bedroom featuring lamps with female torsos. The d

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With Easter and Passover coming soon, it’s time to look at what scientists have to say about the stories in the Bible. British scientist Colin J. Humphrey says Mount Sinai, where Moses received God’s Law, is really in Saudi Arabia, and not in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, because the mountain must have been an active volcano, since it shook and emitted fire and smoke (Exodus 19:18). He thinks the site is Mount Bedr in northwestern Saudi Arabia, since there were no ancient volcanoes in what was later named the Sinai Peninsula. And he thinks the “burning bush” was caused by flammable natural gas or volcanic gas escaping from a small vent in the ground. Another scientist thinks Christ didn’t die on the cross, but was drugged instead.
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