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Attacks on humans by gulls and buzzards are increasing, meaning some birds may be learning to fear us less. Other birds are adapting to our presence by changing their songs, so they can be heard above the traffic noise.

Simon de Bruxelles writes in the Times of London that buzzards have been divebombing walkers and even attacking people in their cars. Experts say they’re protecting nests in nearby trees.

Former Royal Air Force Captain Richard Bridges, 69, had to be taken to the hospital after suffering wounds in the head. He’s been attacked twice, and was chased off by a flock of five birds a third time.
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Italian researchers say eating pizza can protect against cancer. This is certainly more palatable than the latestcure from Thailand. They say eating pizza regularly reduces the risk of developing cancer of the esophagus by 59%. Colon cancer fell by 26% and mouth cancer by 34% among pizza eaters.

The reason could be the lycopene, the antioxidant chemical in tomatoes which is thought to protect against cancer.

Researcher Silvano Gallus looked at 3,300 people who developed cancer of the mouth, esophagus, throat or colon and compared them with 5,000 people who did not have cancer. He asked them how often they eat pizza, and found that those who ate it at least once a week had less chance of developing cancer.
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Allan Hall writes for The Scotsman that recently discovered East German intelligence files reveal that tons of live ammunition, as well as fueled Nazi fighter planes, are buried in concrete bunkers beneath Schoenefeld airport, which is used by thousands of travelers every year.

When the Nazis were under pressure during the end of World War II, they buried the planes parked on the runway in concrete, rather than letting them fall into Soviet hands. “They would have stuffed them anywhere they could?there was simply too much stuff to blow up all at once,” says historian Karl-Heinz Eckhardt. “There was a warren of massive Nazi bunkers beneath the site of the present airport that would have suited their purposes.”
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