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Native American DNA Links to Six "Founding Mothers"
Category: Ancient Civilizations
Nearly all of today's Native Americans in North, Central, and South America can trace part of their ancestry to six women whose descendants immigrated around 20,000 years ago, a DNA study suggests.

Those women left a particular DNA legacy that persists to today in about about 95 percent of Native Americans, researchers said.
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The Original Religion
Category: Spiritualism
Within all religions today there is a common core, an inner spiritual transmission going back to the dawn of human consciousness, to a time when religion was not necessary.

The original purpose of religion was to bring sacredness to life. Imagine a time (whether prehistorical or transhistorical) when human beings lived moment-to-moment in the presence of the sacred. Religion was unnecessary.
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A natural solution to tiredness
Category: Health
Tiredness leaves many workers too weary to function, but a natural substance in the body may offer a solution
Sixty-thousand to 80,000 years ago Ancient Britons leapt up after a night's sleep on what is now the seabed off the coast of Norfolk.
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'Psychic' Dog predicts earthquake
Category: Psychic
A PSYCHIC dog from Mablethorpe has stunned its owners by predicting the earthquake that shook the country last week.
16-month-old Boxer Jessica is believed to have sensed the quake was going to strike after exhibiting some peculiar behaviour hours before the ground shook.

Owner Wendy Brooks from Mablethorpe, who has five pet Boxers, said: "She was acting very strangely from around 6.
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The spectre of reason
Category: Paranormal
ONE claimed she could make people urinate with the power of her mind while another confidently predicted an asteroid would destroy Bowen, in far north Queensland.
The long list of failed challengers for James Randi's $US1 million prize is as entertaining as it is bizarre.
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Exonerated Internet guru sues Web site for defamation
Category: Psychic
so-called Internet psychic, who was acquitted of sex abuse charges in Washington County Circuit Court in May 2007, is suing a French Web site for defamation in Portland's U.S. District Court.
Eric J. Pepin, 40, the founder of the online company Higher Balance Institute, is suing Laura Knight-Jadczyk, who publishes the blog "Signs of the Times," at www.SOTT.net.
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Measles outbreaks hit dozens and lack of MMR jabs blamed
Category: Health
AN OUTBREAK of measles has left three people needing hospital treatment, prompting calls for parents to ensure their children are fully vaccinated.
Health Protection Scotland (HPS) said it had received reports of 36 cases of measles so far this year, compared with just four in the whole of 2007.

Health chiefs said the outbreak was mostly affecting young people who were not fully immunised.
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Heart defect ignored for 23 years
Category: Health
A young woman who PE teachers dismissed as lazy when she was a child has been found to have the biggest hole in the heart her doctors had ever seen.
Louise Banks, aged 23 from Exeter, collapsed regularly when exercising but was told it was epilepsy.
When she was 16, trainers at her local gym realised she had a serious problem, but the condition was not diagnosed until January this year.
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Terry Pratchett: The Alzheimer's warrior
Category: Health
Terry Pratchett is accustomed to having a dedicated following and has never been shy about  engaging with his fans. Between book signings and Chinese meals with them he would take off the wizardly black clothes that make him recognisable and disappear to his home in Wiltshire, his writing and his overseeing of the industry his books have spawned.
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Restaurant owner's 'spongy' handshake with GP saves man's life after doctor recognised rare killer brain tumour
Category: Health
It was nothing more than a warm handshake between two people meeting for the first time - but it was a gesture that saved Mark Gurrieri's life.
The hand that clasped his belonged to a GP, Dr Chris Britt, who noticed a 'fleshy and spongy' feeling which instantly triggered his professional concern.
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The Nutrient Packed Almond
Category: Health
The almond is believed to have originally been cultivated in Asia and North Africa, and it was Spanish missionaries who first brought almonds to California. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the United States is the largest producer of almonds in the world.
The almond featured significantly in different cultures throughout history.
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Council evicts grumpy ghost
Category: Psychic
British officials paids a psychic to exorcise a supposed poltergeist from state housing after the distressed occupants said otherwise they would leave and become homeless, a council official said on Tuesday.
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