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Shades of the biblical plagues and the 6th Century catastrophe reported on Unknowncountry last week, where mysterious yellow dust was reported falling from skies .

A mysterious red rain recently fell in the Southern Indian State of Kerala, accompanied by collapsing wells and a plague of black insects.

It was originally thought that the red rain might have been caused by dust kicked up by small earthquakes, although no quakes were measured. This could also explain the tiny black insects that rained from the sky at the same time.
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Whitley’s final stop on the Last Vampire tour is Austin, Texas, where he’ll be giving a talk and signing books at Bookpeople, 603 S. Lamar, on Thursday, August 23 at 7:00PM.

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Reuters reported today that the Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein bank has warned its clients that revised US productivity figures due to be released Tuesday could result in a market crash.

It is expected that the revised productivity figures will indicate that US productivity has not only not been rising as expected, but that the whole productivty miracle of the 1990s was a result of measurement errors.

This means that the internet revolution, among other things, has increased the profitability of companies less than previously thought, and that future productivity increases will be less than expected. To read the full Insight article click here.

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Explorer’s Club board member Catherine Cooke will be discussing her journey to Nepal in search of the Yeti tonight on Dreamland. Ms. Cooke is the neice of Tom Slick, the legendary oilman who conducted the first scientific expeditions in search of the Yeti back in the fifties. Cathy followed in his footsteps, deep into parts of Nepal that remain to this day almost entirely untravelled. Braving an increasingly tense political situation and adverse weather conditions, she made some remarkable discoveries.
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