Scientologist's Treatments Lure Firefighters
By MICHELLE O'DONNELL
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/04/nyregion/04DETO.html
"For the past year, more than 140 New York City firefighters, some ailing from their work in the ruins of the World Trade Center, have walked into a seventh-floor medical clinic just two blocks from the former disaster site. Once inside, some have abandoned the medical care and emotional counseling provided to them by their own department's doctors, and all have taken up a treatment regimen devised by L. Ron Hubbard, the late science fiction writer and founder of the Church of Scientology."
An erratic ghost
by Jac MacDonald
Edmonton Journal
http://www.canada.com/edmonton/edmontonjournal/story.asp?id=05A1BF3F-1AB5-4FCD-B90D-221F2239F7F7
"Something sinister lurked behind the woman as she was descending an old wooden staircase and pushed her down the steps of the traditional brick two-storey house in Groat Estate."
Reports of 'guy in gorilla suit' follow bigfoot sighting in Vt.
By Noah Hoffenberg
Bennington Banner
http://www.berkshireeagle.com/Stories/0,1413,101~6282~1673043,00.html
"The report of a sasquatch sighting in Southern Vermont last week has prompted others who saw what one man called "a guy in a gorilla suit" to come forward."
A marketing dream come true
Bennington Banner
http://www.benningtonbanner.com/Stories/0,1413,104~8670~1673165,00.html
"Over and over again, we hear the cry of "Tourism! We need more tourism!""
It wasn't little green men, just farmers scratching a living
by Maev Kennedy
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1055683,00.html
"The mystery of a prehistoric site cited as, variously, a launch site for little green men or the tracks leading to Atlantis, could be finally solved."
Reach out and touch the extraterrestrial
By ERIC BARTELS
Portland Tribune
http://www.portlandtribune.com/archview.cgi?id=18818
"The difference between the now-defunct 24 Hour Church of Elvis and the Portland Alien Museum is that nobody at the church really believed Elvis was alive."
Underwater Loch Ness Walker Continues After Fall
Reuters
http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=3554676
"A charity fundraiser attempting an underwater marathon beneath the surface of Scotland's Loch Ness, famed for its legendary monster, pressed on with his subaquatic trek on Friday after injuring his shoulder falling from a ledge."
Sugarhouse Man Sees UFO
by Keith McCord
KSL
http://tv.ksl.com/index.php?nid=5&sid=51426
"Ever wonder whether there's anything flying around in space, like a flying saucer or some other kind of object? Some people reject the thought entirely, but others aren't so sure."
Ghosts on call
By ANNA MARIA BASQUEZ
Fort Collins Coloradoan
http://www.coloradoan.com/news/stories/20031004/lifestyle/388648.html
"Every Friday, as the workweek is winding down at a downtown mortgage company in the charming old Hansen Building, business in the afterlife starts to pick up."
Designs in the field
By James Cummings
Dayton Daily News
http://www.daytondailynews.com/life...l?urac=n&urvf=10654419567870.7801623343192295
"A crop circle turned up this week in Bainbridge, down in southeastern Ohio, and at least one person calling himself an expert indicates the geometric pattern in a soybean field there is not a hoax."
Scientist says UFO tales far out
By ALLAN TURNER
Houston Chronicle
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2137114
"First came the UFO, a massive, saucer-shaped craft hovering low over the Pacific Northwest in the spring of 1967. Then, two days later, came the beeping -- a steady, two-beeps-to-the-second sound coming from no discernible source. Locals, some bearing rifles, flocked to the woods to hear, to puzzle, to perhaps solve the mystery."
That's Show Business?
By SONYA PADGETT
Las Vegas Review-Journal
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2003/Oct-05-Sun-2003/living/22275318.html
"Margaret Dent sees, and occasionally talks to, dead people."
Recent witness says Bear Lake monster 'is still alive and lurking'
by Will Bagley
Salt Lake Tribune
http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Oct/10052003/utah/98762.asp
"In its long and venerable life, the Deseret Evening News occasionally got things right. It was definitely correct when, in 1881, it revealed that eyewitnesses were willing to prove "the Bear Lake monster is a living, veritable fact.""
Bigfoot believers gather in Jeannette
By Rebekah Scott
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
http://www.post-gazette.com/neigh_washington/20031005wabigfoot1001p6.asp
"They're huge and hairy and stink of sulfur, and some say several lurk in the wild places of Westmoreland County."
UFO pandemonium struck 30 years ago
by Gary Holland
Biloxi Sun Herald
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/local/6935861.htm
"Thirty years ago this week, UFO pandemonium broke out."
Supremacist on the Hayden, Idaho ballot
By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
"Residents of this northern Idaho lakeside town can´t rid themselves of Aryan Nations founder Richard Butler."
McClintock Advisor Looks to Bible as Basis for Law
By Scott Glover
Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/features/religion/la-me-stoos30sep30,1,3880609.story
"John Stoos, a key advisor in the gubernatorial campaign of Republican state Sen. Tom McClintock, has a dream:"
Church-and-state standoffs continue spreading across U.S.
By LARRY COPELAND
Gannett News Service
http://www.chillicothegazette.com/news/stories/20031004/localnews/389772.html
"This leafy city, whose many churches inspired an early poet to write of its "clustered spires," is beloved by history buffs."
Man's prestigious accomplishments were fictitious
By Robin Acton and Richard Gazarik
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/news/s_158120.html
"On paper, it was a wonderful life."
Will this hurt?
by Justin Picardie
The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/m...getRule=10&xml=/health/2003/10/03/hpica03.xml
"There is nothing in my mundane life that might be said to overlap with Sadie Frost's: except for the fact that we have both recently undergone a rather odd treatment called "cupping". Sadie's cupping was reportedly in order to fortify herself before the FrostFrench fashion show last month; mine, rather less glamorously, was in an effort to rid myself of a lingering cold."
Ayurveda provides system for living
by Diane Evans
Akron Beacon Journal
http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/living/6937241.htm
"A local pharmacist asked for information about the Eastern system of medicine known as ayurveda (pronounced ah-yur-VAY-dah). A sign went up a few doors down from her drugstore advertising "ayurvedic herbs.""
Vandals or other damage Morrow Plots
by Ted Faust
Daily Illini
http://www.dailyillini.com/oct03/oct03/news/stories/news_story01.shtml
"Vandals — or perhaps aliens — have damaged the Morrow Plots, the nation's oldest continuously used agricultural experimental fields, and possibly tampered with more than a decade's worth of research, University officials reported Thursday."
Research data of saucer-buster finds home at Texas A&M
Associated Press
http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/state/6939577.htm
"The work of an investigator who dismissed the existence of flying saucers - a finding that hardly matters to UFO believers - has been turned over to Texas A&M University."
Exploiting local knowledge
By REBECCA BARRY
New Zealand Herald
<http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertain...hesubsection=film&thesecondsubsection=general>
"Director Greg Page teeters on the edge of his seat as if to act out his dream audience."
'Chain letter of love' lives on - as does 'dying child'
By Barney Lerten
Bend Bugle
http://bend.com/news/ar_view^3Far_id^3D11829.htm
"Once upon a time, long before the avalanche of spams, scams, virii and other e-mail nightmares came to roost in computer in-boxes around the world, there was a sick little boy in England, suffering from a terminal brain tumor, who had a wish to make the Guinness Book of World Records by receiving the most greeting cards."
May Day stories full of holes, judge says
by Jim Nichols
Cleveland Plain Dealer
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/106543267153133.xml
"To get an idea of why prosecutors failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt last week that four black teens were part of last spring's race-related "May Day" beating of a white girl, consider the testimony against one defendant, a 14-year-old boy."
Fake flying saucers bamboozle German residents
South African Press Association
http://www.thestar.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=132&fArticleId=253505
"Ufologists have revealed how they set off consternation in Germany overnight with a fleet of seven "flying saucers" that crossed the city of Heilbronn in echelon formation."
Slaying theories involve devil, Nazis, art
By Julia Prodis Sulek
San Jose Mercury News
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/6944041.htm
"Nazi Low Riders named Dirty and Skeeter, an old Satanic cult called the Order of Lion, and bizarre paintings of decapitated women and floating fetuses. These are the latest surreal elements in the Laci Peterson murder case."
Hot Psychology?
By LEONORA LaPETER
St. Petersburg Times
http://www.sptimes.com/2003/10/05/Tampabay/Hot_Psychology.shtml
"The red cedar had been burning for two hours, the chunks of wood once stacked like Lincoln Logs now a pile of glowing orange and black embers."
Woman adament about Mother Teresa's 'cure'
Agence France-Presse
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2003/10/06/2003070611
"Rejecting widespread scepticism about her "miraculous" cure, Monica Besra, the tribal woman whose recovery from a stomach tumour in 1998 is attributed to Mother Teresa, insists it was not medicines but the Albanian-born nun who healed her."
Medicine cured 'miracle' woman - not Mother Teresa, say doctors
By David Orr
The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...es05.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/10/05/ixworld.html
"The other inhabitants of the tiny village of Dhulinakod in eastern India tell Selku Murmu he is a lucky man. He was just a simple farmer, they say, and now, thanks to his wife's "miraculous" recovery from cancer, he is a celebrity. Their teasing occasionally gets on his nerves but he does not deny that fortune has smiled on him and his family."
Big Dumps, Big Days, Big Skis and Big Goddamn Feet
by Leslie Anthony
Skiing
http://www.skiingmag.com/skiing/feature/article/0,12910,490919,00.html
"At first light on a stormy March morning, we are driving east along the broad reach of the Fraser River on British Columbia’s dank south coast. It’s murky, with smoky tendrils of mist angling off mountainsides and fog pooling in the valley. When the sky clamps down here, the clouds swallow peaks whole and roadways become eerie enclosures. The spookiness is only heightened as we nose off the highway toward Harrison Hot Springs."
Book sheds light on role of psychic medium
By LARRY GRARD
Kennebec Journal
http://www.centralmaine.com/news/stories/031006gooutand.shtml
"Before the discernment even began, Allison Hall knew that her parents had arranged a meeting with prominent psychic medium George Anderson, Kenneth and Doris Hall learned from Anderson."
Lawmen believe missing girl is dead
By Deuce Niven
Fayetteville Observer
http://www.fayettevillenc.com/story.php?Template=region&Story=5913938
"A year ago this week, Vartasha White walked up to employees at the former Kmart in Whiteville and said her 4-year-old daughter Kynande Bennett was missing."
Psst, have you heard what they're saying about ... ?
by Deborah Cameron
Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/10/03/1064988409859.html
"Papal trembles, political tumbles and royal fumbles all cause them. In Hollywood they are life itself. In business they are death. And Sydney, like the world, is all ears."
Study: Wrong impressions helped support Iraq war
By FRANK DAVIES
Knight Ridder Newspapers
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/6918170.htm
"A majority of Americans have held at least one of three mistaken impressions about the U.S.-led war in Iraq, according to a new study released Thursday, and those misperceptions contributed to much of the popular support for the war."
Study hits war views held by Fox fans
By David Folkenflik
Baltimore Sun
http://www.sunspot.net/features/lifestyle/bal-to.fox04oct04,0,3378189.story
"Heavy viewers of the Fox News Channel are nearly four times as likely to hold demonstrably untrue positions about the war in Iraq as media consumers who rely on National Public Radio or the Public Broadcasting System, according to a study released this week by a research center affiliated with the University of Maryland's School of Public Affairs."
Report claims snake bite never happened
By Steve Nash
Brownwood Bulletin
http://www.brownwoodbulletin.com/articles/2003/10/03/news/news01.txt
"Brownwood Regional Medical Center officials do not believe a man was bitten by a rattlesnake Monday as he claimed and say the man stole more than $15,000 in medical services from the hospital, Brownwood police said."
Mexican-American folklore rich with unearthly stories to help people deal with their fears
By ELDA SILVA
San Antonio Express-News
http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/living/6839522.htm
"La Llorona, or the Weeping Woman, on an eternal quest to find her children, is one of the many unearthly characters that populate the world of Mexican-American folklore."
Headlines belie falling crime rates
by JOHN DUNCANSON
Toronto Star
<http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Co...860&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154>
"When it comes to crime, nobody does it quite like Toronto."
Typhoon baby boom fizzles
By Jojo Santo Tomas
Pacific Daily News
http://www.guampdn.com/news/stories/20031006/localnews/396112.html
"Apparently, candles aren't enough for lovers anymore."
What's Really Visible from Space
By Robert Roy Britt
SPACE.com
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...20031006/sc_space/whatsreallyvisiblefromspace
"There is a longstanding myth that the Great Wall of China is the only manmade object visible from space. It and several variations on the theme are great fodder for water cooler arguments. In reality, many human constructs can be seen from Earth orbit."
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By MICHELLE O'DONNELL
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/04/nyregion/04DETO.html
"For the past year, more than 140 New York City firefighters, some ailing from their work in the ruins of the World Trade Center, have walked into a seventh-floor medical clinic just two blocks from the former disaster site. Once inside, some have abandoned the medical care and emotional counseling provided to them by their own department's doctors, and all have taken up a treatment regimen devised by L. Ron Hubbard, the late science fiction writer and founder of the Church of Scientology."
An erratic ghost
by Jac MacDonald
Edmonton Journal
http://www.canada.com/edmonton/edmontonjournal/story.asp?id=05A1BF3F-1AB5-4FCD-B90D-221F2239F7F7
"Something sinister lurked behind the woman as she was descending an old wooden staircase and pushed her down the steps of the traditional brick two-storey house in Groat Estate."
Reports of 'guy in gorilla suit' follow bigfoot sighting in Vt.
By Noah Hoffenberg
Bennington Banner
http://www.berkshireeagle.com/Stories/0,1413,101~6282~1673043,00.html
"The report of a sasquatch sighting in Southern Vermont last week has prompted others who saw what one man called "a guy in a gorilla suit" to come forward."
A marketing dream come true
Bennington Banner
http://www.benningtonbanner.com/Stories/0,1413,104~8670~1673165,00.html
"Over and over again, we hear the cry of "Tourism! We need more tourism!""
It wasn't little green men, just farmers scratching a living
by Maev Kennedy
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1055683,00.html
"The mystery of a prehistoric site cited as, variously, a launch site for little green men or the tracks leading to Atlantis, could be finally solved."
Reach out and touch the extraterrestrial
By ERIC BARTELS
Portland Tribune
http://www.portlandtribune.com/archview.cgi?id=18818
"The difference between the now-defunct 24 Hour Church of Elvis and the Portland Alien Museum is that nobody at the church really believed Elvis was alive."
Underwater Loch Ness Walker Continues After Fall
Reuters
http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=3554676
"A charity fundraiser attempting an underwater marathon beneath the surface of Scotland's Loch Ness, famed for its legendary monster, pressed on with his subaquatic trek on Friday after injuring his shoulder falling from a ledge."
Sugarhouse Man Sees UFO
by Keith McCord
KSL
http://tv.ksl.com/index.php?nid=5&sid=51426
"Ever wonder whether there's anything flying around in space, like a flying saucer or some other kind of object? Some people reject the thought entirely, but others aren't so sure."
Ghosts on call
By ANNA MARIA BASQUEZ
Fort Collins Coloradoan
http://www.coloradoan.com/news/stories/20031004/lifestyle/388648.html
"Every Friday, as the workweek is winding down at a downtown mortgage company in the charming old Hansen Building, business in the afterlife starts to pick up."
Designs in the field
By James Cummings
Dayton Daily News
http://www.daytondailynews.com/life...l?urac=n&urvf=10654419567870.7801623343192295
"A crop circle turned up this week in Bainbridge, down in southeastern Ohio, and at least one person calling himself an expert indicates the geometric pattern in a soybean field there is not a hoax."
Scientist says UFO tales far out
By ALLAN TURNER
Houston Chronicle
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2137114
"First came the UFO, a massive, saucer-shaped craft hovering low over the Pacific Northwest in the spring of 1967. Then, two days later, came the beeping -- a steady, two-beeps-to-the-second sound coming from no discernible source. Locals, some bearing rifles, flocked to the woods to hear, to puzzle, to perhaps solve the mystery."
That's Show Business?
By SONYA PADGETT
Las Vegas Review-Journal
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2003/Oct-05-Sun-2003/living/22275318.html
"Margaret Dent sees, and occasionally talks to, dead people."
Recent witness says Bear Lake monster 'is still alive and lurking'
by Will Bagley
Salt Lake Tribune
http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Oct/10052003/utah/98762.asp
"In its long and venerable life, the Deseret Evening News occasionally got things right. It was definitely correct when, in 1881, it revealed that eyewitnesses were willing to prove "the Bear Lake monster is a living, veritable fact.""
Bigfoot believers gather in Jeannette
By Rebekah Scott
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
http://www.post-gazette.com/neigh_washington/20031005wabigfoot1001p6.asp
"They're huge and hairy and stink of sulfur, and some say several lurk in the wild places of Westmoreland County."
UFO pandemonium struck 30 years ago
by Gary Holland
Biloxi Sun Herald
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/local/6935861.htm
"Thirty years ago this week, UFO pandemonium broke out."
Supremacist on the Hayden, Idaho ballot
By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
"Residents of this northern Idaho lakeside town can´t rid themselves of Aryan Nations founder Richard Butler."
McClintock Advisor Looks to Bible as Basis for Law
By Scott Glover
Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/features/religion/la-me-stoos30sep30,1,3880609.story
"John Stoos, a key advisor in the gubernatorial campaign of Republican state Sen. Tom McClintock, has a dream:"
Church-and-state standoffs continue spreading across U.S.
By LARRY COPELAND
Gannett News Service
http://www.chillicothegazette.com/news/stories/20031004/localnews/389772.html
"This leafy city, whose many churches inspired an early poet to write of its "clustered spires," is beloved by history buffs."
Man's prestigious accomplishments were fictitious
By Robin Acton and Richard Gazarik
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/news/s_158120.html
"On paper, it was a wonderful life."
Will this hurt?
by Justin Picardie
The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/m...getRule=10&xml=/health/2003/10/03/hpica03.xml
"There is nothing in my mundane life that might be said to overlap with Sadie Frost's: except for the fact that we have both recently undergone a rather odd treatment called "cupping". Sadie's cupping was reportedly in order to fortify herself before the FrostFrench fashion show last month; mine, rather less glamorously, was in an effort to rid myself of a lingering cold."
Ayurveda provides system for living
by Diane Evans
Akron Beacon Journal
http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/living/6937241.htm
"A local pharmacist asked for information about the Eastern system of medicine known as ayurveda (pronounced ah-yur-VAY-dah). A sign went up a few doors down from her drugstore advertising "ayurvedic herbs.""
Vandals or other damage Morrow Plots
by Ted Faust
Daily Illini
http://www.dailyillini.com/oct03/oct03/news/stories/news_story01.shtml
"Vandals — or perhaps aliens — have damaged the Morrow Plots, the nation's oldest continuously used agricultural experimental fields, and possibly tampered with more than a decade's worth of research, University officials reported Thursday."
Research data of saucer-buster finds home at Texas A&M
Associated Press
http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/state/6939577.htm
"The work of an investigator who dismissed the existence of flying saucers - a finding that hardly matters to UFO believers - has been turned over to Texas A&M University."
Exploiting local knowledge
By REBECCA BARRY
New Zealand Herald
<http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertain...hesubsection=film&thesecondsubsection=general>
"Director Greg Page teeters on the edge of his seat as if to act out his dream audience."
'Chain letter of love' lives on - as does 'dying child'
By Barney Lerten
Bend Bugle
http://bend.com/news/ar_view^3Far_id^3D11829.htm
"Once upon a time, long before the avalanche of spams, scams, virii and other e-mail nightmares came to roost in computer in-boxes around the world, there was a sick little boy in England, suffering from a terminal brain tumor, who had a wish to make the Guinness Book of World Records by receiving the most greeting cards."
May Day stories full of holes, judge says
by Jim Nichols
Cleveland Plain Dealer
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/106543267153133.xml
"To get an idea of why prosecutors failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt last week that four black teens were part of last spring's race-related "May Day" beating of a white girl, consider the testimony against one defendant, a 14-year-old boy."
Fake flying saucers bamboozle German residents
South African Press Association
http://www.thestar.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=132&fArticleId=253505
"Ufologists have revealed how they set off consternation in Germany overnight with a fleet of seven "flying saucers" that crossed the city of Heilbronn in echelon formation."
Slaying theories involve devil, Nazis, art
By Julia Prodis Sulek
San Jose Mercury News
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/6944041.htm
"Nazi Low Riders named Dirty and Skeeter, an old Satanic cult called the Order of Lion, and bizarre paintings of decapitated women and floating fetuses. These are the latest surreal elements in the Laci Peterson murder case."
Hot Psychology?
By LEONORA LaPETER
St. Petersburg Times
http://www.sptimes.com/2003/10/05/Tampabay/Hot_Psychology.shtml
"The red cedar had been burning for two hours, the chunks of wood once stacked like Lincoln Logs now a pile of glowing orange and black embers."
Woman adament about Mother Teresa's 'cure'
Agence France-Presse
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2003/10/06/2003070611
"Rejecting widespread scepticism about her "miraculous" cure, Monica Besra, the tribal woman whose recovery from a stomach tumour in 1998 is attributed to Mother Teresa, insists it was not medicines but the Albanian-born nun who healed her."
Medicine cured 'miracle' woman - not Mother Teresa, say doctors
By David Orr
The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...es05.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/10/05/ixworld.html
"The other inhabitants of the tiny village of Dhulinakod in eastern India tell Selku Murmu he is a lucky man. He was just a simple farmer, they say, and now, thanks to his wife's "miraculous" recovery from cancer, he is a celebrity. Their teasing occasionally gets on his nerves but he does not deny that fortune has smiled on him and his family."
Big Dumps, Big Days, Big Skis and Big Goddamn Feet
by Leslie Anthony
Skiing
http://www.skiingmag.com/skiing/feature/article/0,12910,490919,00.html
"At first light on a stormy March morning, we are driving east along the broad reach of the Fraser River on British Columbia’s dank south coast. It’s murky, with smoky tendrils of mist angling off mountainsides and fog pooling in the valley. When the sky clamps down here, the clouds swallow peaks whole and roadways become eerie enclosures. The spookiness is only heightened as we nose off the highway toward Harrison Hot Springs."
Book sheds light on role of psychic medium
By LARRY GRARD
Kennebec Journal
http://www.centralmaine.com/news/stories/031006gooutand.shtml
"Before the discernment even began, Allison Hall knew that her parents had arranged a meeting with prominent psychic medium George Anderson, Kenneth and Doris Hall learned from Anderson."
Lawmen believe missing girl is dead
By Deuce Niven
Fayetteville Observer
http://www.fayettevillenc.com/story.php?Template=region&Story=5913938
"A year ago this week, Vartasha White walked up to employees at the former Kmart in Whiteville and said her 4-year-old daughter Kynande Bennett was missing."
Psst, have you heard what they're saying about ... ?
by Deborah Cameron
Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/10/03/1064988409859.html
"Papal trembles, political tumbles and royal fumbles all cause them. In Hollywood they are life itself. In business they are death. And Sydney, like the world, is all ears."
Study: Wrong impressions helped support Iraq war
By FRANK DAVIES
Knight Ridder Newspapers
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/6918170.htm
"A majority of Americans have held at least one of three mistaken impressions about the U.S.-led war in Iraq, according to a new study released Thursday, and those misperceptions contributed to much of the popular support for the war."
Study hits war views held by Fox fans
By David Folkenflik
Baltimore Sun
http://www.sunspot.net/features/lifestyle/bal-to.fox04oct04,0,3378189.story
"Heavy viewers of the Fox News Channel are nearly four times as likely to hold demonstrably untrue positions about the war in Iraq as media consumers who rely on National Public Radio or the Public Broadcasting System, according to a study released this week by a research center affiliated with the University of Maryland's School of Public Affairs."
Report claims snake bite never happened
By Steve Nash
Brownwood Bulletin
http://www.brownwoodbulletin.com/articles/2003/10/03/news/news01.txt
"Brownwood Regional Medical Center officials do not believe a man was bitten by a rattlesnake Monday as he claimed and say the man stole more than $15,000 in medical services from the hospital, Brownwood police said."
Mexican-American folklore rich with unearthly stories to help people deal with their fears
By ELDA SILVA
San Antonio Express-News
http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/living/6839522.htm
"La Llorona, or the Weeping Woman, on an eternal quest to find her children, is one of the many unearthly characters that populate the world of Mexican-American folklore."
Headlines belie falling crime rates
by JOHN DUNCANSON
Toronto Star
<http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Co...860&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154>
"When it comes to crime, nobody does it quite like Toronto."
Typhoon baby boom fizzles
By Jojo Santo Tomas
Pacific Daily News
http://www.guampdn.com/news/stories/20031006/localnews/396112.html
"Apparently, candles aren't enough for lovers anymore."
What's Really Visible from Space
By Robert Roy Britt
SPACE.com
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...20031006/sc_space/whatsreallyvisiblefromspace
"There is a longstanding myth that the Great Wall of China is the only manmade object visible from space. It and several variations on the theme are great fodder for water cooler arguments. In reality, many human constructs can be seen from Earth orbit."
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