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Last week this story appeared regarding the sound quality of the Stradivarius violins possibly being related to a "mini ice-age" which occured from the 15th to 19th centuries.

Today I read this story about experts saying there is no doubt that global warming is occuring and that it is caused by human activity.

According to some estimates, we are overdue for an ice age. In fact, this is the subject of a movie to be released soon, "The Day After Tomorrow."

What if global warming is in fact what prevented an ice age from occuring on schedule? The "mini ice-age" ended as the industrial era was just starting.

Wow, really? I would have never guessed.

Drugs given to children to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder could have long-term effects on their growing brains, studies on rats suggest.

... "Rats exposed to Ritalin as juveniles showed large increases in learned-helplessness behavior during adulthood, suggesting a tendency toward depression," Carlezon said in a statement.

... Higher dopamine levels could affect the way brain cells cement their connections during development, Carlezon wrote in the Dec. 15 issue of the journal Biological Psychiatry.

A team at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas found that adult rats were less responsive to rewarding stimuli and reacted more to stress if they had been given methylphenidate as youngsters.

from Attention Deficit Drugs May Have Long-Term Effects

A Partner in the "Coalition of the Willing."

What can be said of a leader who allies himself with such as this?

"Look what they did to my son in Jaslik. They tortured him in the basement and boiled him in hot water," said 61-year-old Fatima Mukadyrova, tears in her eyes, displaying photographs of a mutilated body with severe burns, cuts and bruises.

The pictures clearly showed that the 36-year-old Avazov had no nails on his hands and feet and nearly all of his teeth had been broken.

from Torture Rife in Uzbek 'Health Farm' Jail