Exposing children early in life to dust may actually protect them from developing asthma, rather than triggering it. If that’s the case, there must be very little asthma in China, which is home to fierce recurring dust storms that blow dangerous debris halfway across the earth.

Netherlands researcher Dr. Jeroen Dowes found that childrens’ exposure to the tiny bacteria in dust, starting at three months old, definitely contributed to their NOT developing asthma, the disease that killed Ramona Bell.
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Greek computer scientist Vasillis Tsantilas has won a lawsuit that will allow pagans to again worship ancient gods such as Zeus, Hermes and Athena. Before this, all religions except Christianity, Judaism and Islam had been banned in Greece.

Helena Smith reports in the Guardian that Tsantilas, who is a computer scientist, came to paganism after becoming a Buddhist, a Taoist and a Muslim. He has now become a pagan and wants the freedom to openly practice his religion.

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As William Henry and Anne Strieber would say, What’s the difference? As Gary Schwartz says, I can prove it!
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In September of 2004, famed psychiatrist and Harvardprofessor Dr. JohnMack, was knocked down by a car in London and killed. A few months later, Harvard professor Susan Clancy published a book based on U.S. government funded research that is packed with what a distinguished researcher says aredistortions and misinformation about theabduction phenomenon. The book was given extensive coverage by the general media, and the new claim became that all abduction experiences are a result of sleep paralysis. The fact that many close encounters involve multiple witnesses and that they by no means all happen at night or start while witnesses are asleep are simply ignored in the government funded tome.read more

Intelligent animals, like dogs and cats, recognize their names. A parrot will generally tell you his name if you ask him. But dolphins do even more?they give THEMSELVES names, then they send that name out through the depths of the ocean in order to tell other dolphins “hello.”

A dolphin’s name may sound like a series of whistles to us, but it’s recognizable by other dolphins. Like some human languages (such as Chinese), understanding what is being said has to do with the way the words are pronounced?or in this case, in the frequencies of the whistles.
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