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First of all, my apologies on getting back to you. I had a couple errands and didn't realize the post would get this much activity.

There are all kinds of things the MSM doesn't report. If the story doesn't happen in their regular " beat" and they don't have an office nearby, it doesn't get written up. Remember when the tropical storm hit Houston and did $ 1 billion of flooding? That was not reported in the MSM for weeks, at least not on the front pages. Did you know ***before*** 9/11 that there was this guy Bin Laden with several divisions of Arabs in Afghanistan in training against the USA? Yet there are non-MSM links up before 9/11 that reported that fact. One reason I take the screen name I do is that I hope, from time to time, to be able to bring to better light some of the news items in very remote areas that are nevertheless quite startling.

Yes, this is a legit news story. The Sydney Morning Herald and Science Magazine are reporting it, too. Unfortunately, many of the articles so far are subscription only. Nevertheless, I will post the search output from Google News, and you may have better luck in accessing these: http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=nz&ie=ISO-8859-1&ncl=http://www.themercury.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,16387758%25255E3462,00.html

Thank you, everybody, for the feedback.