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My wife recently published a diary entry about herviews on the Terri Schiavo case, which elicited a ton of email response. Like my recent journal on the Rapture, or the non-existence thereof, the vast majority of the letters were positive.

We receive ten thousand emails a month, and our volunteers try to at least open all that are not obvious spam, from known lunatics, or have no subject heading. Those all go without being opened.

Over the past years, more and more of your emails have become more clear-headed, rational and, frankly, moderate in tone. At this point, that’s what we get most of the time. Often, letters lead to Dreamland or Mysterious Powers programs, news stories, and Insight articles.
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Newswise – Paleontologists have been stunned by the discovery of softtissue from dinosaurs. The tissue is 68 to 80 million yearsold, and some of it remains pliant. The tissue from aTyrannosaurus Rex tissue is virtually identical to a modernostrich. The tissue probably contains genetic material.Perviously, it had been thought that organic tissue couldnot survive beyond a hundred thousand years.

This means that the world’s very archaic fossils may containa wealth of genetic material that will open a completely newwindow for us onto life in the distant past.
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Newswise – We’ve recently read scandalous stories about how the CIAfarms out torture by returning detainees to countries thatdo not hesitate to use these methods in order to obtaininformation. Now it’s been announced that the FDA hasdecided that the widely accepted code of ethics used fordrug trials on patients is not necessary for studiesconducted abroad. Poor U.S. citizens don’t fare anybetter?Bill Moyers reports that the U.S. government has paidblack families to spray pesticides in their homes so the FDAcan measure the results, even though it’s known that theseinsecticides can be toxic to children.
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In Whitley?s latestJournal, he talksabout the Schiavo case, and says, “In the past few years,twice had to make similar decisions. In both cases, thevictims had living wills, but, believe me, when you arealone with the question of whether or not to pull the plug,there is always an element of doubt, and that is anagonizing place to be?It is possible for a human being to beentirely alone with an impossible decision.read more