In Vietnam and Thailand, authorities are trying desperately to stop bird flu from spreading, before the virus becomes able to be passed from person to person and causes an epidemic much larger than SARS. Right now, it can only be caught directly from infected chickens. “If the virus continues to spread in chickens, it may adapt itself so it can grow in humans,” says epidemiologist Arnold Monto. “If it is transmitted human to human, then we are concerned this is the start of the great pandemic.”
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A security camera captured the image of a UFO slowly falling in the sky over Kansas City on January 14. This is the “falling leaf” motion often reported by people who see UFOs. In North Carolina, a reporter interviewed several witnesses who saw UFOs, then saw the same thing himself the following night.

The security camera belongs to the Trigen Energy Plant, and security worker Bob Lindsay says, “[The UFO] had the appearance of more of a really light yellow?wasn’t quite white, wasn’t quite yellow.”

NASA astronomer Tom Armstrong guessed it could have been falling space junk, except NORAD says there was nothing manmade entering the atmosphere on that date.
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The media still doesn’t understand global warming. Last summer, when people were dying from the hot weather in Europe, they wrote about the world warming up. Now, when incredibly harsh winter weather is sweeping across the northern hemisphere, they deny the problem exists. But with global warming, not only will some places heat up?others will get MUCH colder?and the change could last for thousands of years. There’s new evidence that this is happening right now.
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As part of our ongoing series of new Communion Letters, we present the adventures of Cecilia from South Africa, who has used irony and humor to chase away unwanted Visitors.

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