20-foot-tall bubbles sprout in Indiana waste pools
An Indiana farm community is alarmed over giant bubbles that have sprouted in lagoons of liquid manure. Farmer Tony Goltstein has asked if he can cut holes in the growing, 20-foot-tall bubbles, which were created when methane released by the manure got under plastic linings in the waste pools on his property. But neighbors fear that any hasty action could cause a devastating explosion. Last year, the gas in a single waste pit in Minnesota exploded, hurling a singed farmer 40 feet in the air. “We’re concerned with just cutting a hole,” says state official Bruce Palin. “Obviously, you don’t want to be smoking a cigarette when you open this thing up.”
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An elderly woman in China has startled her family by sprouting a horn on her forehead. Zhang Ruifang, 101, of Henan province began developing the protrusion four months ago. It’s now 2½ inches long, and another one appears to be emerging on the other side of her forehead. The horn, which causes her no pain, began as a patch of rough skin, and just kept getting bigger.
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