http://www.alien-earth.org/news/index.php Updates on news and additions to alien-earth.org. en-us Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:44:20 -0400 http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=2007 A federal judge overseeing cases against dozens of Guantanamo Bay detainees said Wednesday that he fears the public — and the detainees themselves — will be locked out of the courtroom when evidence in the case is scrutinized for the first time Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=2006 Bayer CropScience officials are rejecting claims that some of the company's pesticides played a role in the disappearance of millions of US honeybees Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=2005 Scientists are moving closer to a unilateral opinion that water, even in relatively modern times, exists on Mars Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=2004 Grazing cattle and sleeping deer tend to align their bodies along the North-South axis of the Earth's magnetic field, European researchers said on Monday, giving new meaning to the phrase animal magnetism Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=2003 Across the country, from grain elevator to grain elevator, golden wheat and corn are piled in towering mounds, waiting for a rail car to haul them to market Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=2002 NEW ORLEANS - Signs are emerging that history is repeating itself in the Big Easy, still healing from Katrina: People have forgotten a lesson from four decades ago and believe once again that the federal government is constructing a levee system they can prosper behind Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=2001 SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Court authorities here will be able to track students with a history of skipping school under a new program requiring them to wear ankle bracelets with Global Positioning System monitoring Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=2000 The Department of Homeland Security is studying how best to implement a little-noticed congressional mandate to gather, search, and store biometric data from all foreign visitors leaving the country Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=1999 NEW YORK - Yoga can reduce hot flashes and night sweats among women going through menopause, and also appears to sharpen their mental function, researchers from India report Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=1998 SAN FRANCISCO - Intel on Thursday showed off a wireless electric power system that analysts say could revolutionize modern life by freeing devices from transformers and wall outlets Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=1997 TIKABOO VALLEY, Nevada - The only landmark for about 40 miles on a barren stretch of highway is a mailbox battered by time and desert gusts Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=1996 MONTGOMERY, Alabama - Alabama, pushed to third in national obesity rankings by deep-fried Southern favorites, is cracking down on state workers who are too fat Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=1995 Speaking up in the military can be hazardous to the health of your career, even when it's done to help wounded soldiers or the families of fallen warriors Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=1994 There won't be razor wire, but anyone arrested during the Democratic National Convention will be held in locked chain-link cells in an old warehouse Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=1993 HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania - The maker of Snickers bars and M&Ms candies said it is raising wholesale prices on various items to offset the higher costs of raw materials, packaging and energy, the second major candy company in the past week to announce such a move Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=1992 RALEIGH, North Carolina - A mental patient died after workers at a North Carolina hospital left him in a chair for 22 hours without feeding him or helping him use the bathroom, said federal officials who have threatened to cut off the facility's funding Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=1991 PHOENIX - A federal judge on Wednesday permanently barred Arizona from using a state law to prosecute an online merchant who sells shirts that list names of thousands of troops killed in Iraq Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=1990 A new analysis of government data is the first to link low-level arsenic exposure, possibly from drinking water, with Type 2 diabetes, researchers say Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=1989 PALO ALTO, California - Results from tests on genetic material from alleged remains of one of the mythical half-ape and half-human creatures, made public at a news conference on Friday held after the claimed discovery swept the Internet, failed to prove its existence Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=1988 PALO ALTO, California - It could be an elaborate hoax or one of the biggest news stories of the summer Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=1987 DENVER - The FBI is now investigating a possible case of cyanide poisoning at a downtown Denver hotel Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=1986 DeWITT COUNTY, Texas - The legend of the chupacabra gained new life over the weekend as two DeWitt County sheriff's deputies spotted what they said they believe is the mythical creature Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=1985 Just months before President Bush leaves office, his administration is antagonizing environmentalists by proposing changes that would allow federal agencies to decide for themselves whether subdivisions, dams, highways and other projects have the potential to harm endangered animals and plants Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=1984 JEFFERSON CITY - Missouri state Representative Scott Muschany, R-Frontenac, was indicted today in connection with a reported sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl on May 17, the day after this year’s Legislative session ended Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=1983 Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to 26 percent greater risk of death in men and women, according to a study published Monday that appears to confirm the importance of this essential nutrient Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=1982 A US court on Monday ordered medical care for a Pakistani scientist said to be seriously sick since being shot last month in an alleged struggle with US officers in Afghanistan Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=1981 TORONTO - Explosions at a propane facility forced thousands of people to evacuate early Sunday, and witnesses described the sky lighting up in the glow of an enormous fireball before turning black with billowing smoke Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=1980 FBI Director Robert Mueller has apologized to the editors of The Washington Post and The New York Times for improperly obtaining phone records of the newspapers' reporters while investigating terrorism four years ago Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=1979 A US Navy submarine leaked trace amounts of radioactive water for two years as it made port calls in Japan and other Asian nations, the Navy said Thursday Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=1978 Before killing himself last week, Army scientist Bruce Ivins told friends that government agents had stalked him and his family for months, offered his son $2.5 million to rat him out and tried to turn his hospitalized daughter against him with photographs of dead anthrax victims Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=1977 The White House and the CIA on Tuesday adamantly denied a report that the Bush administration concocted a fake letter purporting to show a link between Saddam Hussein's regime and al-Qaida as a justification for the Iraq war Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=1976 An injection of a high dose of vitamin C may be able to hold back the advance of cancers, US scientists claim Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=1975 Scientists in the UK who have examined hairs claimed to belong to a yeti in India say that an initial series of tests have proved inconclusive Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=1974 There has been a plutonium leak at a site run by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Austria Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=1973 GUANTANAMO BAY US NAVAL BASE, Cuba - Osama bin Laden's driver performed vital services that enabled "the world's most dangerous terrorist" to launch attacks, a prosecutor told jurors before they began deliberations on Monday in the first US war crimes trial at Guantanamo Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=1972 Bruce E. Ivins, a respected government microbiologist, died of an apparent suicide on July 29, 2008, in a hospital in his hometown of Frederick, Md Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=1971 MOSCOW - Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet dissident writer and Nobel literature prize winner who revealed the horror of Stalin's camps to the world, died late on Sunday aged 89, Russian news agencies reported Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=1970 A cannabinoid receptor lying on the surface of cells may help suppress colorectal cancer, say US researchers Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=1969 Snack lovers, rejoice: Munching on potato chips just got a little healthier Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.alien-earth.org/news/item.php?keyid=1968 US federal agents have been given new powers to seize travelers' laptops and other electronic devices at the border and hold them for unspecified periods the Washington Post reported on Friday Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400