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In Anne’s new diary, she writes about how she and Whitley finally made the switch.

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Iran, a country that has been in the news lately, is having a wave of incredible sightings of a “radiant,” plasma-like UFO. This type of UFO was photographed in Ecuador around 20 years ago. UFOs are often seen near nuclear installations, which is why they are sometimes assumed to be sightings of military craft. The famous Roswell UFO crash in 1947 occurred near a military base that contained nuclear warheads.

In the Israel news, Yaakov Lappin quotes witnesses who describe the UFO being “as big as a ball, with a yellow ray and a bright reddish color in the center.” They also stated that the object was flying “at a very low altitude” and emitted a “yellow ray.”
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Since 1999, Unknowncountry.com has been recommending that people switch from incandescent lightbulbs to fluorescents, and now Australia is planning to ban incandescents altogether, effective in 2010. This will cut greenhouse gas emissions by 4 million tons by the crucial year of 2012 (the year the Mayans predicted the world would end).

The incandescent light bulb, which was invented in the 19th century, wastes energy by giving off heat while the light is switched on. California, which has long been in the vanguard when it comes to preventing global warming, may be the first state in the US to do the same.
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From an unprecedented locust swarm in southern Mexico tofearsome hailstorms in Australia to one of the deadliestwinters in United States and European histories, worldweather continues in a state of extreme violence.

The most recent outbreak of tornadoes in the southeasternUnited States generated an unusual “major severe weatheroutbreak” from the US Storm Prediction Center. The stormsmoved across ground at the extraordinary speed of fiftymiles an hour, leaving widespread destruction and at leasttwenty people dead. This is the third major tornadicoutbreak in the US this winter. The previous two outbreakswere on December 25 and February 2, both in Florida. TheFebruary 2 event also killed at least 20 people.
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