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New research shows that eating vegetables, not fruit, helps keep us mentally alert as we age, BUT another study shows that eating strawberries is good for our memory.

In determining whether there was an association between eating vegetables and fruit and cognitive decline, researchers studied 3,718 residents in Chicago, Illinois, who were age 65 and older. Researcher Martha Clare Morris says, “Compared to people who consumed less than one serving of vegetables a day, people who ate at least 2.8 servings of vegetables a day saw their rate of cognitive change slow by roughly 40%. This decrease is equivalent to about five years of younger age.”
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We have recently reported that both dolphins and elephants may be self-aware beings, like humans. Scientists think that dolphins and whales, which live in the water despite breathing air, evolved onto land, but then RETURNED to the water, because they liked it better there. Now scientists may have found a missing link that proves this theory of evolution?just as we’ve recently discovered a human missing link.

Japanese researchers captured a bottlenose dolphin that has an extra set of fins that could be the remains of hind legs. Fossil remains prove that 50 million years ago, dolphins and whales were land animals that walked on four feet.
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In a devastating article in the British newspaper The Independent, Robert Fisk writes that Saddam Hussein, who has just been sentenced to death for his war crimes, committed these crimes when he was “Washington’s best friend in the Arab world.” The US not only knew all about his atrocities, we even supplied the chemical weapons he used against his own people, and against our soldiers in the first Gulf War.
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Many of the paperless computerized voting systems adopted in wake of the “hanging chad” presidential election controversy in 2000 have the potential to create more problems than they solve, especially since the recent discovery that a Diebold voting machine can be easily opened with a hotel mini bar key.

Election security expert Eugene Spafford thinks the new voting technology could cause a debacle reminiscent of the 2000 and 2004 elections. He says that we are “hurriedly and somewhat recklessly replac[ing] all of the [voting] equipment nationwide.” He worries about things like software that won’t count votes cast above a certain number or machines that reset to zero after a power failure.
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