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In our latest Insight, Walter E. Davis writes, “Clearly, one of the most critical questions of the twenty-first century concerns why the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were not prevented?There are numerous aspects regarding the official stories about September 11th which do not fit with known facts, which contradict each other, which defy common sense, and which indicate a pattern of misinformation and coverup.” Read the Insight, check out his sources, and decide for yourself.

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Global warming could dry up the Amazon river and turn the tropical forest into a dustbowl in the next 50 years. This would be caused by a change in the rainfall patterns, brought on by changes in the Pacific ocean currents, which in turn are caused by increased freshwater released by melting glaciers. A newly discovered ancient city in the Amazon is awesome, but it’s also giving officials an excuse not to try to save the rainforests, by saying they haven’t been pristine for a long time.
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Russian researcher Alexander Sulakvelidze came to the U.S. after Communism ended because “There was nothing left to do. Good scientists would come to work and spend all day playing cards and chess.” When he arrived at the University of Maryland Medical Center, he discovered the hospital was in the midst of a crisis that Soviet scientists had already solved.

Richard Martin writes in Wired that the Enterococcus bacteria was showing signs of resistance to vancomycin, the antibiotic of last resort. Between 1992 and 1994, vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) infected 75 patients, killing 6 of them. 20% of the patients had VRE in their bloodstreams. The cause of the epidemic was an overuse of antibiotics.
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Meteorologists think Hurricane Isabel may be just the first of a long string of even bigger hurricanes that may keep coming for at least a decade. “We’re not talking about a minor little increase,” says Stanley Goldenberg of NOAA, “but an overall doubling of major hurricane activity.”

J. Madeleine Nash writes in Time Magazine online that starting in 1995, the corridor of warm water that lies between the Cape Verde Islands and Central America has been producing about four big storms a year, as compared with two or less in the preceding three decades. Meteorologist William Gray says, “the Atlantic is a marginal area for tropical storms. When global conditions are not right, it sees very few, and when they are, it sees quite a lot.”
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