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A Russian cosmonaut and an American woman are planning a long distance marriage on August 10th, because they can’t find time to get married on the ground. Yekaterina Dmitriev, who lives in Richmond, Texas, plans to marry Russian Air Force Colonel Yuri Malenchenko next month when he’s in the International Space Station. “This shows you that long-distance relationships do work,” Dmitriev says.

Diane Wilson, County Clerk for Fort Bend, says, “We marry a lot of people when one partner is absent either because they are in the military or are incarcerated.”

The couple will recite their vows by phone link, and their attorney Harry Noe will step in for Malenchenko if their connection breaks down.

Maybe they’ll have some very special bridesmaids.
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Norwegian reporter Hanne Dankertsen writes that researchers have found the explanation for the burning bush, from which God spoke to Moses in the Bible. They went to the Sahara desert to study bushes that were setting themselves on fire. Smoke was billowing from red holes in the ground and local villages were evacuating.

Dag Kristian Dysthe expected to find lava underneath the smoking soil, but found a burning layer of turf instead. He says, “We measured 1292 degrees Fahrenheit in some of the holes. It was actually a little scary seeing the burning bushes in the desert, almost like in the Bible. We discovered that a burning layer of turf under the soil caused the smoke and the heat that set the bushes on fire.”
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Will Boggs writes that not only do some hospital patients become infected with superbugs, their visitors can take the infection home with them. Antibiotic-resistant staph infections are now frequently found outside hospitals.

Dr. David P. Calfee studied 172 personal contacts of 88 patients who got superbug infections in the hospital. 25 of them carried the same superbug, including one person who had only casual contact with the patient.

Ancient civilizations had their own ways of healing.

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A farmer in Wisconsin saw a crop circle being formed in his barley field. Arthur Rantala says, “The holes appeared and there it was but you couldn’t see what made it, but I [saw] it right when it happened.”

He says, “It looked like a lake. The waves, the wind blowing, and then all of the sudden this dark hole appears, like a black hole. And then immediately, one to the right, then another to the center of it.”

When asked if the grain could have been flattened by a board, he says, “No. How you gonna go around knock[ing] this down so flat is hasn’t come up since??UFOs? Let them think what they do, but I saw this actually happen so my eyes know what I [saw]. So I know it was Mother Nature and nobody else.”
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