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The National Weather Service has announced that TropicalDepression Five now circulating in the Lesser Antilles withsurface winds of 35 miles an hour is likely to become ahurricane over the weekend and is headed toward the Gulf ofMexico.

Because Gulf waters remain abnormally warm, the entrance ofany organized storm into the Gulf is potentially extremelydangerous and must be watched carefully.

Tropical Storm Debbie in the south Atlantic does not yetpose a threat to land and is passing over waters that arenot likely to allow it to develop into a severe storm. Atpresent, it doesn’t appear that it is a threat to land.
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Now that astronomers say that Pluto can no longer be considered a planet, what are astrologers going to do? Pluto may have been put into limbo by astronomers, but it’s still on astrology charts, and nobody plans to remove it.
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Long ago, our ancestors may have become human to get away from snakes. They may have left the water in order get away from poisonous fish! There are actually more poisonous fish than poisonous snakes. Biologists have now identified 1,200 species of venomous fish (there are also over 1,500 types of poisonous lizards).

Robert Roy Britt writes in LiveScience.com that the number venomous fish tallied in the new study is six times previous estimates. More than 50,000 people are poisoned by fish bites every year, and some of them actually die from them.Poisonous fish live in all bodies of water, from streams to oceans, and at all depths. Most of them are in the tropic, although there are a few in California.
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The government keeps warning us about an upcoming epidemic of bird flu?which may or may not be a problem?but it doesn’t mention the current epidemic of autism, which researchers now know is caused by a genetic susceptibility to heavy metal pollution. Like detectives trying to solve a murder case, researchers searching for the biological cause of autism have come up with some surprising suspects. They’ve found that different genes may be responsible for causing autism in boys than in girls.
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