ic Wales - Concern over five-in-one jab scheme

Details of the new combined injection were announced by the Department of Health after it emerged that the mercury-based preservative thiomersal was to be removed from the whooping cough vaccine.

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John Titor, Time Traveler

During the first two hours of Friday's show, Oliver Williams discussed the alleged time traveler John Titor, as well as fielded calls from listeners.
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Polluted U.S. Beaches Closing in Record Numbers

NRDC criticizes the Bush administration for a proposed $500 million cut in federal grants for sewage treatment plant upgrades and for policies to change the regulation of sewage treatment discharges.

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Smart skin? holds promise for morphing wings and wearable computers

Metal Rubber, and, according to NanoSonic, its particular properties make it unique in the world of material chemistry.
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Pole Shifting

Many familiar with Cayce's readings assume there will be no pole shift because, they say, none of Cayce's historically-unprecedented Earth change predictions have been fulfilled. Before providing information that contradicts this position, let's review the three readings that together say - or imply - that a shifting of the poles will occur sometime before the close of 2001.
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Fears of vCJD timebomb revived

A ?significant number? of people in the UK may be harbouring vCJD with no clinical symptoms, reveals the study of a new case. The work suggests the epidemic of the human form of mad cow disease may be far from over.

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Locust swarms devastate Africa

The invasion was spreading into Mauritania, Mali and Niger. UN agriculture experts have listed Chad and the Darfur region of Sudan as among the other regions also at risk.
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Veteran retracts criticism of Kerry

Lieutenant Commander George Elliott said in an interview that he had made a ''terrible mistake" in signing an affidavit that suggests Kerry did not deserve the Silver Star -- one of the main allegations in the book.
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El Nino 'could strike this year'

An El Nino event may be on its way this year, according to the US government's climate prediction centre,
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If George W. were a girl...
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Bush Misspeak Cites U.S. Readiness to Harm U.S.

President Bush told a roomful of top Pentagon brass on Thursday that his administration would never stop looking for ways to harm the United States Read it here....

Cassini Hears Puzzling Lightning at Saturn

We are detecting the same crackle and pop one hears when listening to an AM radio broadcast during a thunderstorm," said Bill Kurth, deputy principal investigator on the radio and plasma wave instrument from the University of Iowa. "These storms are dramatically different than those observed 20 years ago."
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'Everything is at stake,' Kerry tells riverfront crowd

Tom Lange, 18, of Waukesha said he was setting off an air horn during Kerry's remarks because "we want them to hear us and not hear what he has to say."

Lange said it's "probably not nice, but it's my beliefs."

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Life on Mars Likely, Scientist Claims

Those twin robots hard at work on Mars have transmitted teasing views that reinforce the prospect that microbial life may exist on the red planet.
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Pre-9-11 Intelligence Underpinning US Terror Alert

"There is nothing right now that we're hearing that is new. Why did we go to this level?... I still don't know that."
Senior law enforcement official

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How They Could Steal the Election this Time

roughly 115 million who will go to the polls, will consign their votes into computers that unidentified computer programmers, working in the main for four private corporations and the officials of 10,500 election jurisdictions, could program to invisibly falsify the outcomes.
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Military readies directed-energy weapons - Aug 2, 2004

A few months from now, Peter Anthony Schlesinger hopes to zap a laser beam at a couple of chickens or other animals in a cage a few dozen yards away.
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Lost Florida Voting Records Found

"I certainly want the disc, I certainly wish someone would test the original disc they are now claiming they found and determine when that disc was made, where it came from, whether it's been tampered with and if anyone's opened it."
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Seas turn to acid as they absorb global pollution

The research concludes that "dramatic changes", such as have not occurred for at least 20 million years, now appear to be under way. They could have "significant impacts on the biological systems of the oceans in ways that we are only beginning to understand".

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