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UPDATE: UFO landing in Australia? – UPDATE: First, it was a UFO that remained on the ground for 30 hours in an isolated area of southern Mexico. Then, a series of mysterious object crashes, including most recently an event in Needles, California that Unknowncountry continues to investigate. Now two readers report that they observed a falling object in the mountainous area where they live south of Brisbane, in Australia’s Queensland State.
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What will we be wearing in the future? Whether they’re invisible or made out of chicken feathers, the fabrics that make up our clothes are changing. One of these may be made up of something that grows so fast it’s almost considered a weed in Asia: bamboo. And finally, a machine has been invented that can spin silk as strong as spiders.

Bamboo is widely available in Japan, China, India and other countries, and bamboo fabric is soft, durable and elastic. It hangs as gracefully as silk, and has an attractive, lustrous sheen. Bamboo is also one of the world?s fastest growing plants, reaching maturity in about 3-4 years, compared to 25 to 70 years for commercial tree species in the US.
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…like California? – China is relaxing its one-child policy for victims of the May 12 earthquake, which killed more than 65,000 people, many of them children. Close to 25,000 people are still missing. And a new study shows that large earthquakes routinely trigger smaller quakes worldwide, including on the opposite side of the planet, even in areas that do not usually have earthquakes.
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…or caused by a virus? – Are you fat? It may not be your fault. If you were a fat child, it’s probably genetic. It could even be due to the kind of bacteria you have in your intestines! Maybe you even “caught” it when you were exposed to a virus. But no matter how you got it, you DO need to do something about it, because being fat makes you more likely to get cancer.

In LiveScience.com, Christopher Wanjek reports that UK researchers looked at 300,000 cases of cancer and found that being overweight increased the risk of developing 20 different kinds of cancer. BBC News reports that overweight children are more likely to be that way because of their genes than their lifestyle.
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