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We think of fresh vegetables as something that’s always good to eat, but they can be dangerous. Scallions imported from Mexico recently killed three people and made hundreds more sick. Grow your own? Research shows that vegetables grown in urban gardens can be contaminated with lead.

Marian Burros writes in The New York Times that in 2000, there were as many cases of food poisoning caused by fruits and vegetables as there were from meat, fish and eggs combined. This is due to an increase in imports from countries with lower sanitary standards, where fields are often irrigated with contaminated water.
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Christopher Reeve is pushing for research that will allow paraplegics like himself to regain bodily movement. But if this isn’t possible, it might be better to let the mind do the moving instead. Reseachers are having success teaching monkeys?and people?how to move computer cursors and even machines using only their brain waves.
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The 700 mile Okefenokee Swamp contains many of the same effects that have been noted in crop circles. Electrical devices go haywire inside it and residents have seen glowing orbs and UFOs nearby. “I’ve only seen [the orbs] a few times in my life, but that’s enough,” says swamp guide Milford Simpson. “Even though you rationally know there’s a natural explanation for them, it just doesn’t seem natural when a glowing glob is following you down the road.

“Your technology can’t be counted on in the swamp. Signals get scrambled, electronics go screwy. Mother Nature kicks technology’s butt in here.” Bigfoot and other mysterious crypto-creatures, such as the Skunk Ape, have been seen in the swamp as well.
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The host for the devastating African disease Ebola, which has no cure and kills quickly and painfully, has not yet been found. The host is an animal which carries the virus but is not itself affected by it, and if it could be found, diseased creatures could be eradicated, ending the plague. Scientists haven’t yet found the host, but they have some potential candidates.

Shaoni Bhattacharya writes in New Scientist that researcher Townsend Peterson and his team are flying out to the Congo, where a new outbreak of Ebola is beginning, to continue the search. The latest outbreak has killed 11 people so far, and infected another 87. Another recent was in the same region and killed 128 of the 142 people infected.
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