WORLD WATCH
1. The Texas DOT announced this morning that it has
officially killed the Trans Texas Corridor, saying that
despite the projectʼs visionary aspects, it is clearly not
the choice of Texans.” The defeat is credited to the
incredible job done by grassroots activists. The Dallas
Morning News
2. Longer Lasting healthier bread -“By replacing the
yeast with fermented chickpea, we get the additional
benefit of extending shelf life. ...we supplement the
bread with chickpea flour we then have a more complete
protein due to the high lysine content in chickpeas.”
Clifford Hall III, North Dakota State University
3. Federal scientists complained to the Obama
transition team of widespread misconduct of FDA. “The
purpose of this letter is to inform you that the scientific
review process for medical devices at the FDA has been
corrupted and distorted by current FDA managers,
thereby placing the American people at risk,” said the
letter, written on the agencyʼs Center for Devices and
Radiological Health letterhead. Associated Press
4. New hope for the Red Planet - The first definitive
detection of methane in the atmosphere of Mars
indicates that Mars is still alive, in either a biologic
or geologic sense, according to a team of NASA and
university scientists. Science Express
5. From early March 536 AD, a fog of dust blanketed
the earth for 18 months. “The sun gave no more light
than the moon”, temperatures plummeted and crops
failed, Tiny balls of condensed rock vapor or “spherules”
have been found in debris inside Greenland ice cores
dating back to early 536 AD. indicating an impact event.
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
6. An extract from grape seeds can destroy cancer
cells, US research suggests. Scientists found that the
extract stimulated leukaemia cells to commit suicide.
Within 24 hours, 76% of leukemia cells exposed to the
extract were killed off, while healthy cells were unharmed,
Clinical Cancer Research reports.
Naturalnews.com
7. Mark Holley, professor of underwater archeology
at Northwestern Michigan College, discovered a series
of stones arranged in a circle 40 feet below the surface
of Lake Michigan. One stone outside the circle seems to
have carvings that resemble a mastodon—an elephant-
like animal that went extinct about 10,000 years ago.
NBC CHicago News
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Oracle 20/20 February 2009
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