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You may be contributing to global warming without even realizing it. It all has to do with Spam (the kind you eat AND the computer kind).

Researchers say that returning to the slimmer days (we’re talking body weight here, not about the economy) of 40 years ago would not only help our health, it would help climate change AND the recession. In the UK, scientists think that people are eating almost 20% more food than they did back then, and all that farming (use of tractors, as well as trucks to take the food to stores) sends up lots of greenhouse gas emissions.
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If you Twitter, you should realize that rapid-fire media of this type may confuse your moral compass and you may end up sending messages that are harsher than a live conversation (or written letter) would be. Why does email sometimes cause us to act this way?

This happens because the emotions linked to our moral sense awaken slowly in the mind?much more slowly than our fingers can type on the computer. Admiration and compassion–two of the social emotions that define humanity–take longer for the brain to process, and by then it may be too late: you may have already pressed the "send" button.
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New blog by a Dreamland listener – Unknowncountry and Dreamland fan Jim Boyle has created a blog on Blogspot.com called Navigating Dreamland that comments on Dreamland and keeps up with the activities of our great hosts! It’s a thoughtful blog, and just another example of how our wonderful community is growing?and will continue to grow in the future (IF we’re still here!) To enjoy Jim’s blog, comment and participate, click here. If you got our FREE weekly email newsletter, you would have already read this story! To sign up, click here (and we NEVER share you email address with anyone).

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If you look along the top of our home page, underneath the masthead and to the right of “the news” tab, you’ll see our brand new “Out There” section, and Whitley Strieber wants to thank you for making it such a hit. “Out There” aggregates UFO and other unusual news stories from around the world, and it has already been visited over half a million times since we announced it in our newsletter last week!

Because of our extensive resources in this area, “Out There” has quickly become among the very best places to get such information. For example, it’s the only single resource on earth following the huge British Isles UFO wave, and virtually the only place where UFO news appears often by the hour or even the minute.
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