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That's quiet a mouseful of a quetion there... hummmm... I'm afraid I can't quite hash it out. Why do hummingbirds, in the presence of sharp! pointy! teeth! turn on those reverse rockets full thrust but always seem to land beak deep in nectar, while whales, of noticeably greater size often...

something like that, but... I kinda doubt religion has much to do with it. Catholicism is a rather more of a backdrop. Kinda doubt too many people, small town or not, would ascribe it to the devil. At best a very elderly person might get the notion, whereupon I could see others jumping at the...

Personal viewpoint: quiet conspiracy? A friend of mine here who, incidentally, grew up in Sicily, rolled his eyes and chuckled sarcastically when i brought up these incidents. His idea is that the whole thing has been "blown out of proportion" by the citizens and the only true "magnetic"...

It also says, a bit further down i.e. they don't expect a signal that small to directly cause the problems but somehow to be amplified or in any event modified in some way, by as yet undetermined influences. (i think amplified is probably a more accurate translation, But I myself do not know...

In the year !888, you say? Ahhhh! I daresay therein lies the key to your quetion, for it is a documented hysterical fact that in the year !888 the Great Doge of Venice, returned, after a long exile, having been forced to flea a few years prior by the unseemly hysterisms of his second cousin...

Oh btw, mouseonmoon - i'm near Milan - comfortably North of the firey scenery. (whew! )

ummmmm... can "magma" be pluralized in English? "magmas" just sounds awfully awfully skwoowy to me... for starters.

RaiNet News, 18 March 2004: Fires caused by magnetic fields Hey there guys, well looks like they're barking up a slightly different tree now... here's an article from a national (state) news network (RAI). This time I found some ambiguities and terms which my limited physics knowledge really...

Neither a planet nor a star, I guess I'd be an oxymoron. At the height of my success, the best I might hope for is a special episode of Nova. What do you do if you're scuba-diving in the Lesser Antilles and you realize you have barely enough oxygen left to get you to the surface without...

No surprise really. The left wing has been challenged from the start... since the Wright brothers pioneered aircraft and flight as we know it. What do you do if the What Do You Do If thread has become so riddled with lefts, rights and wrongs it is impossible to determine the orientation of...

Sounds like Fawlty Premises to me. Doubtful people read all of this thread, so they'd not have the ghost of a chance of following its spirit. As I was pondering the anser to your free-spirited quetion, it occurred to me that there was an odd recursion about it such that, were one not careful...

This is one of those unsual cases where simply not thinking about the problem will make it go away: the painting will soon vanish. What do you do if you the painting vanishes, but the ladybug does not, and she would like to fly away home but for the unfortunate residue of Cerulean blue which...

Ehhhh, open foot, insert mouth? Anyway, sounds kinky to me. What do you do if there's a little green man in your head, and the Kinks won't stop telling you about it?

Perform breathing exercises and tell yourself it's just a screen. What do you do if you simply cannot work yourself up to the task at hand?

Unlikely - if his pocket rocket went off I think it would have been anything but accidental. Does a pocketful of posies imply explosive originality?