Andy Coghlan writes in New Scientist magazine about a marvelous way to clean up carbon dioxide?turn it into diamonds. “We are changing a waste gas into gems,” says Chinese researcher Qianwang Chen.

It’s even cheaper than the current method of creating manmade diamonds, which requires up five million atmospheres of pressure and ultra-high temperatures. Chen makes diamonds in only 12 hours by reacting CO2 with metallic sodium in a pressurized oven at a lower temperature and pressure.
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Strange flashing lights have been seen in the sky in the Worcestershire area of England. BBC cameraman Tom Hines even filmed them with a video camera. And UFOs have been turning up so often in one part of Canada that they’ve become a tourist attraction.

Jennifer Lang writes in the New Caledonia Terrace Standard that British Columbia is getting a reputation as the UFO capital of Canada. “You would be surprised just how many emails I get over the months requesting information for our areas,” says UFO researcher Brian Vike. If you’d like to go UFO watching on your next vacation, check out this website.
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Now that we’ve identified Uday and Qusay by their dental records, so we know they’re really and truly dead, we can step back and take a look at these psychopaths. Sharon Waxman writes in the Washington Post that Uday wouldn’t hesitate to have sex with another man’s wife, and even pass her around to his friends. Sometimes he took a woman directly from her wedding, still wearing her wedding dress. Sometimes the groom was later found dead in what was reported to be a suicide. Ruining one life and ending another, all for a single night’s sex, is the kind of thing that can only be done by someone completely unable to comprehend the feelings of others: in other words, a psychopath.
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In her new diary, Anne Strieber writes, “Now that we’ve identified Uday and Qusay by their dental records, so we know they’re really and truly dead, we can step back and take a look at these psychopaths?Why should this interest us, now that these monsters are dead? Because it shows us that psychopaths can be created by too much indulgence and a lack of discipline, as well as by deprivation and abuse.” Are middle class parents creating monsters in our own neighborhoods? Read Anne’s diary and tell us what you think.

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