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Among the rumors now leaking out of Afghanistan is a bizarre report of Taliban insurgents training monkeys and baboons to shoot at Coalition troops. Is it possible to do this?

Primate experts doubt that the story, which appeared in a Chinese newspaper, is possible. The story says that insurgents are using a reward-and-punishment system to train macaques and baboons to target soldiers wearing US military uniforms. According to the Chinese “People’s Daily,” the Taliban “taught monkeys how to use the Kalashnikov, Bren light machine gun and trench mortars.”
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Anne & Whitley are THERE now! – Anne & Whitley Strieber are in the UK seeing them in person RIGHT NOW, so you can be sure that they’ll have lots to talk about during our next subscriber chat on August 11. This is a perfect time to announce that our 2011 crop circle calendars have arrived! These make perfect gifts and since there are still 5 months left in 2010, we have a special offer: If you order both calendars together, you’ll get $4 off if you use coupon CC2.

Art credit: Lucy Pringle

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And WHY – In their unending search for extraterrestrial life, astronomers have discovered a new way to search for planets as small as the Earth that are in orbit around distant stars.

PhysOrg.com reports that this is something called Transit Timing Variation (TTV). Transits take place where a planet moves in front of the star it orbits, temporarily blocking some of the light from the star.

Meanwhile, scientists are trying to create THEIR OWN star. At a government lab are planning to use a laser the size of 3 football fields to set off a nuclear reaction so intense that it will create a star on the surface of the Earth. If it works, they’ll be able to solve the global energy crisis by using the energy generated by the mini-star.
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In her new diary, Anne Strieber writes: “A while ago, I wrote a diary about how a marriage between a Lefty and a Righty works, on the theory that this is a metaphor for ALL marriages. Now I want to talk about temperature.”

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