Department of Agriculture inspectors say there are big gapsin the U.S. government’s testing for Mad Cow Disease, but atop department official insists that additional cases of thedisease here won’t have any impact on our health.
In msnbc.com, Jon Bonn
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Another extraordinary crop circle has turned up in the U.K. Tosee images of it,clickhere and scroll down. The Crop Circle Connector is the onlyplace we know of where you can see so many beautiful imagesof every new circle that crops up in the U.K. and we hopeyou’ll support their website. Unfortunately, most prominentresearchers feel that this circle is a fake, and arepresentative sample of a new crop of excellent frauds thathave appeared this season.
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One of a Neanderthal baby’s first words was probably “papa,”according to linguists. They are interested in why over6,000 languages share so many sounds for the same words,especially words that are first spoken.
Anna Gosline writes in New Scientist that Pierre Bancel andAlain Matthey de l’Etang think these basic words come fromthe earliest languages, that were spoken 50,000 years ago.They’ve found that the word “papa,” meaning father or malerelative, is present in almost 700 of the 1,000 languagesfor which they have complete data.
Bancel says, “There is only one explanation for theconsistent meaning of the word ‘papa’: a common ancestry.”But he’ll never be able to prove it because “We have noNeanderthals around to ask.”
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Asbestos was once considered so safe that it was used notonly in buildings but even in water pipes. Now we know iteventually leads to a deadly cancer and deaths of peopleexposed to it keep climbing every year. Is there somethingthat seems innocent in our current environment that willbecome the deadly asbestos of the future?
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