Anne Strieber has left intensive care and is beginningstrength rehabilitation. She has lost strength due to amonth of medically necessary bed rest, and must engage inspecial exercises to regain it. She has no neurologicaldeficits, and is expected to make a full recovery.

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Peat burning in bogs in Indonesia may be the explanation forthe sharp rise in atmospheric CO2 that was observed lastyear. CO2 is the main gas responsible for atmosphericwarming, and it has been rising since record keeping beganin 1950. The rate of increase has risen from around 0.8parts per million per year in the 1960s to around 1.5 ppmper year in the 1990s.

Since 2000, the rate of increase has increased dramatically,with an increase of 3.01 ppm recorded in August, 2003 forthe previous 12 months.
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Underwater archaeology is in its infancy, and highlycontroversial, but now a new sunken city has been found in1,600 meters of water about sixty miles off the coast ofCyprus. Given its depth, this city must have been submergedat least 11,000 years ago, meaning that the whole history ofcivilization in the Mediterranean will need to be rewritten.
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As a new and dire warning appeared from Al Qaeda, theCentral Intelligence Agency has been thrown into what formersenior CIA officials are describing as ?turmoil? by thefriction between newly appointed CIA Director Porter Gossand career CIA personnel, especially key senior officers.

Meanwhile, a smallArabic-language website is reported to have posted what isbelieved to be a message from Al Qaeda to the effect thatthe organization possesses at least one nuclear weapon andis poised to detonate it in the center of the US. The reportcomes from the respected Italian news organization laReppublica. It has been ignored by US media.

Unfortunately, there is no CIA analysis of the website or ofwhether or not its contents represent a real threat.
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