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Hurricane Wilma has become the most powerful AtlanticHurricane ever recorded, and it appears poised to strikeFlorida. The storm is likely to come ashore with 165 MPHwinds on Florida’ south coast, and roll up the state’seastern shore, declining from a Category 5 hurricane to atropical storm as it does so. The storm will initiallystrike with winds somewhere in excess of 140 MPH, andpossibly much higher. Destructive winds are liable tocontinue for at least 24 hours as this extraordinary forceof nature comes ashore. It will then deposit upwards of tento fifteen inches of rain throughout its period over land.
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We want to go to Mars to look for life and to perhaps establish a colony there, but why would anyone want to travel to hot, gaseous Venus? Astronomers think that Venus was once just like the Earth?before it experienced its own global warming. Like Mars, Venus is our near neighbor?it’s only one planet closer to the sun than we are. If we can figure out why Venus heated up, we may be able to stop the same thing happening to the Earth.
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The Journal of Nanotechnology reports that silver nanoparticles kill HIV-1, the virus that causes AIDS, and will probably kill other viruses as well, including the virus that causes bird flu. But it’s still not known how, if these extremely tiny particles can be put into a form that can be injected into the human body, they will able to target the viruses that need to be destroyed.

Freemarketnews.com says that when the silver nanoparticles were introduced into a dish containing the HIV virus, 100% of the virus was killed within three hours. Silver may also be a useful weapon against superbugs?bacteria that develop resistance to most antibiotics. Silver is already used as a topical antibiotic.

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It’s hard to believe that air pollution can lead to lower female fertility and more miscarriages, but scientists are now convinced this is the case. The number of couples having trouble conceiving and taking fertility drugs or using in-vitro fertilization in order to have a baby has skyrocketed at the same time that the air has gotten dirtier.

What is our government doing about this? Under Bush, air cleanup programs have been rolled back and people who are anti-environment have been put in charge of the few that remain. The Clear Skies Initiative doesn’t clean up the air, it just moves the pollution around, by the exchange of “points” that allow power plants and factories to continue to pollute our skies.
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