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In our new poll we ask you how you handle, or expect to handle, close encounters. Have you had some and never told anyone? Or have you told and had good?or bad?results? In our last poll we asked you who you think killed JFK. Keep reading for those results?

33% of you think it was a conspiracy, but not any of the ones mentioned in the poll (and we thought we covered everything!) 28% of you think it was done by Lyndon Johnson and the Texas political machine. 12% say JFK was killed so he wouldn’t reveal UFO secrets, while 11% think the CIA did it because Kennedy was soft on Communism. 10% vote for a Mafia hit, and 5% think Oswald acted alone. Less than 1% think he was killed by vengeful Cuban exiles.

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The two man U.S. and Russian crew of the International Space Station heard a metallic crunching noise the day before Thanksgiving, but Russian space officials and NASA say the ISS was not hit by an object from space. “All systems are intact,” says NASA’s Rob Navias. “All of the data from the U.S. and Russian sides shows nothing out of the ordinary.”

Mark Carreau writes in the Houston Chronicle that astronaut Mike Foale thought it sounded as if something had struck the part of the ISS the houses the crew’s sleeping quarters, kitchen and bathroom. “It sounded like a metal tin can kind of being expanded and compressed,” Foale says. “It was a noise that lasted about a second. It sounded like an impact or something.”
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If, like Dagwood, you feel the urge to creep into the kitchen late at night for a snack, don’t worry, you’re not making yourself fat.

Dr. Judy Cameron carried out tests on 47 female monkeys and found no link between when they ate and whether or not they gained weight. She made the discovery by accident, while studying the relationship between female hormones and weight gain. Her team surgically removed ovaries from 19 of them, inducing instant menopause. She found that the monkeys who no longer had the female hormones estrogen and progesterone started to eat more and put on weight. She says, “The absence of these hormones resulted in a 67% jump in food intake and a 5% jump in weight in a matter of weeks.”
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About the only regimen that is guaranteed to give you longer life is to continuously deprive yourself of enough to eat?at least it works for mice and fruit flies. People are now beginning to try this diet as well, although we will have to wait to see if it works for humans. Now scientists have discovered a hermit in India who says he hasn’t eaten or drunk anything for 20 years. He’s lived to be 70 and is in perfect health.
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