White Ridges on MarsWhat created these white ridges on Mars? The images showing the white ridges, including some of the highest resolution images ever taken from Martian orbit, were recorded last year by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). A current leading hypothesis is that the white ridges formed as water flowed through underground cracks and bleached and hardened the edges of surrounding rocks. Over millions of years, surface winds eroded the darker rock leaving the raised white ridges. Such water-created light-colored markings are well known here on Earth. The hypothesis is particularly interesting as underground water could have helped to support microbial life on the red world. The above image resolves surface features as small as one meter across in Candor Chasma region of huge Valles Marineris on Mars. Nazi War Criminals as Role Model
Former general Reinhard Günzel, head of Germany's KSK elite forces until 2003, wrote in a recently published book "Secret Warriors": "The commando soldiers know exactly where their roots lie." The missions of the Wehrmacht's Brandenburg division had been "legendary" among his troops, writes Günzel, who was fired in 2003 for praising a speech by a conservative member of parliament who had referred to Jews as a "race of perpetrators." Spiegel International Online |
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(AP) Are we really heading for an ice-free Arctic? More than 50,000 researchers hope to find an answer during a massive study of how global warming and other phenomena are changing the coldest parts of the Earth _ and what that means for the rest of it.
Factory farms are responsible for both the bird flu and emissions of greenhouse gases that now top those of cars and sport utility vehicles (SUVs), according to a report released Monday. 
Severe water shortages are likely to constrain future expansion of population, agriculture and industry in the south-western US, the fastest growing part of the country, according to a report by the National Academy of Sciences.
IRAN has launched a sub-orbital rocket for scientific research, not a missile capable of reaching space as earlier reported, an aerospace official told an Iranian news agency today.
Illegal aliens are killing more Americans than the Iraq war, says a new report from Family Security Matters that estimates some 2,158 murders are committed every year by illegal aliens in the U.S. The group says that number is more than 15 percent of all the murders reported by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the U.S. and about three times the representation of illegal aliens in the general population. 
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At Least 16 Dead, Including 5 at High School, as Tornados Rip Through South
ENTERPRISE, Ala. — Tornadoes and violent storms roared Thursday across Alabama, killing at least 7 people, including 5 at Enterprise High School, where students were reportedly trapped after a roof collapsed on them.
More than 50 people were hospitalized across the state, according to the Associated Press.
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Tuesday's Market Plunge
At it's worst level, the Dow was down today over 540 points in a global selling spree that started overnight in China. By the end of the day, it had recovered somewhat, but still closed down over 400 points. The real story was the volume: 2.3 million advancing shares advanced, versus 2.3 billion decliners in what could be the most lopsided selling day in history! In other words, 99% of today's share volume was down!
After hearing this news, many people's first instinct is to ask "What caused it?" The next question people are concerned about is, "Will it continue?" And finally, "What should I do?" I'll do my best to answer those questions in this article.
by Michael Nystrom
February 27, 2007
N.A. Nystrom’s Bull not Bull
Honeybees Vanish, Leaving Keepers in Peril
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VISALIA, Calif., Feb. 23 — David Bradshaw has endured countless stings during his life as a beekeeper, but he got the shock of his career when he opened his boxes last month and found half of his 100 million bees missing.
In 24 states throughout the country, beekeepers have gone through similar shocks as their bees have been disappearing inexplicably at an alarming rate, threatening not only their livelihoods but also the production of numerous crops, including California almonds, one of the nation’s most profitable.
By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO
Published: February 27, 2007
New York Times
Violence in the Name of God
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Murder and terror do not figure in the teachings of the monotheist world religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Yet time and again, their fanatical followers embark on bloody rampages, their rage fired up by zealous priests and religious scholars.
The orders handed to the suicide killers are brutally clear: "This is the hour in which you will meet God. Pray to God and ask him to help you carry out this act. Once you are on the plane, you should pray to God because you are doing this for God. As the almighty Prophet says, a deed for God is something better than the whole world."
By Erich Follath, Manfred Müller,
Ulrich Schwarz and Stefan Simons
Spiegel International Online
Bolivia drafts plans to evacuate flood-hit city
TRINIDAD, Bolivia, Feb 25 (Reuters) - The Bolivian government is drawing up plans to evacuate the northeastern city of Trinidad, which has over 90,000 inhabitants, if devastating flooding worsens, President Evo Morales said on Sunday.
The worst floods to strike Bolivia in 25 years have isolated Trinidad and killed some 35 people. Officials fear the floodwaters may spill over a dike surrounding the city.
By David Mercado
Reuters
Biblical Perspective
The Incredible Human Potential
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This is the eye-opening story of the real gospel message
of Jesus Christ—of how the missing dimension was
withheld, and the whole world deceived.
It’s positively astounding! It has remained undiscovered by science! No religion has revealed it! Higher education has never taught it! Is it possible the whole world has been deceived— regarding the awesome purpose of human life— about the way to world peace and how it will come? And could it be true that the real gospel message Christ brought from heaven revealed this missing dimension—but was suppressed? This is the eye-opening story of the real gospel message of Jesus Christ—of how this missing dimension was withheld, and the whole world deceived.
The link above is to a PDF version of the book. An HTML Version of this book available here.
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Editorial
Mexifornia, Five Years Later
The flood of illegal immigrants into California has made things worse than I foresaw.
In the Spring 2002 issue of City Journal, I wrote an essay about growing up in the central San Joaquin Valley and witnessing firsthand, especially over the last 20 years, the ill effects of illegal immigration (City Journal’s editors chose the title of the piece: “Do We Want Mexifornia?”). Controversy over my blunt assessment of the disaster of illegal immigration from Mexico led to an expanded memoir, Mexifornia, published the following year by Encounter Press.
Mexifornia came out during the ultimately successful campaign to recall California governor Gray Davis in autumn 2003. A popular public gripe was that the embattled governor had appeased both employers and the more radical Hispanic politicians of the California legislature on illegal immigration. And indeed Davis had signed legislation allowing driver’s licenses for illegal aliens that both houses of state government had passed. So it was no wonder that the book sometimes found its way into both the low and high forms of the political debate. On the internet, a close facsimile of a California driver’s license circulated, with a picture of a Mexican bandit (the gifted actor Alfonso Bedoya of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre), together with a demeaning height (5’4”), weight (“too much”), and sex (“mucho”) given. “Mexifornia” was emblazoned across the top where “California” usually is stamped on the license.
by Victor Davis Hanson
City Journal (Winter 2007 Issue)
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Health Alert
Mmmm, Tasty Chemicals
What's Inside: One ingredient in the Twinkie is described as 'food-grade plaster of Paris'
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March 5, 2007 issue - As Steve Ettlinger dropped down a Wyoming mine shaft, plummeting 1,600 feet in an open-mesh cage, he wondered how many other food writers had ever donned hard hats and emergency breathing equipment in pursuit of a story. But it was too late to turn back. He'd promised his editor a book tracing the ingredients in a Hostess Twinkie to their origins—and one of them was down this shaft. At the bottom, he and his hosts climbed into an open Jeep and hurtled for 30 terrifying minutes through pitch-black tunnels. Their destination: the site where a mineral called trona—the raw ingredient of baking soda—was being clawed out of a rock face by giant machines. "To say that this does not suggest Twinkies or any other food product would be an understatement," observes Ettlinger. "There you are at an open rock face, wondering why they do all this for the sake of a little snack cake."
By Anne Underwood
Newsweek
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