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Click “Listen Now” on our masthead to join Whitley in a short meditation for extraterrestrial contact. By the end of August, Mars will be closer to Earth than it’s been since prehistoric times, and when Mars is close to Earth, more UFO sightings are reported. Don’t miss this opportunity to try to achieve contact with another intelligence. If you subscribe to unknowncountry, you can download all 4 of Whitley’s meditations and listen to them anywhere.

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In Anne’s new Diary, she writes, “Very often we vilify a single person, who stands for everything we hate. We’ve certainly done this with Osama bin-Laden. While I don’t think he’s a good guy in any way, I’ve realized that I don’t really understand what his organization is all about. Jason Burke, who has written a new book (which is only available in the U.K. for now) called ‘Al- Qaeda: Casting a Shadow of Terror,’ says we shouldn’t blame ourselves for not spotting al-Qaeda sooner and reminds us that, despite fighting two wars in the Middle East, we really don’t know what al-Qaeda is”?or is it something we can recognize right here at home?

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If you want to make sure to get your message across, send it off in a bottle. We’ve written about a 60-year-old message from people escaping from the Nazis and a 20-year-old message from a dead son. Now a homeless man with just enough strength left to put a note in a plastic bottle and throw it out a window was rescued when a local dog found his message.
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Jessica Kovler writes in the August 12th New York Times that "There’s nothing nicer than a tune playing in your head?until you can’t turn it off." And when you get a song stuck in your brain, it always seems to be some stupid advertising jingle or trivial tune that you never liked much anyway. Why do some songs stick, and what can we do to erase them?
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