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# HUMAN GENOME SCIENCES
ANNOUNCES MAJOR NEW INITIATIVE IN HUMAN GENE
MAPPING, GENE
POLYMORPHISM, AND GENE ORGANIZATION -- Partnership with
Compugen
Provides New Data Mining Muscle - Building Better People From
The
Ground Up: http://www.hgsi.com/news/press/00-03-02_compugen.html@ Americans for Cloning Elvis - Sign the petition to get
scientists to do
something useful - clone The King. http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/1673/# Human Embryo Cell-Cloning Technology Developed in Hunan - China to
clone
billions: www.peopledaily.com.cn/english/200003/03/eng20000303T102.html: D'ya sing "Clone, Clone On The Range" as you herd your
mutant wildebeeste/
bison/alligator chimerae across the
clover/maize/human-covered steppes, with
DukeNukem9D playing on y'r
right-ventral implant & a smile on y'r four lips?
# Frito-Lay
Admits Use Of GM Crops In Products - "If we don't, the Chinese
and
Indians will" -- http://www.jeffrense.com/politics6/fritonew.htm# Scientists teach cells to line-up; can be trained to
grow along a chemical
trail. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_665000/665338.stm_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
# Ensuring the Past's Future.
COLLEGEVILLE, MINN. In an Ethiopian mountain-
top monastery. In a
stable on the island of Malta. In the ancestral castle
of a German
prince. In every remnant of our medieval past, the manuscripts
are
sought. They are wrinkled, some of them, and smudged -- page after
ancient page of parchment scribbled in a cramped and crabby script.
Others
are gorgeous, afire with art, shimmering with golden ink. All
are eagerly
hunted: http://www.pioneerplanet.com/seven-days/1/living/docs/030128.htm# Document limits scope of apology by Vatican. ROME. In
preparation for Pope
John Paul II's plan to deliver a sweeping
apology this month for the Roman
Catholic Church's historical
failings, a Vatican document was released
Wednesday outlining the
conditions and limits to the Holy Year act of
repentance. http://pioneerplanet.com/seven-days/1/living/docs/017861.htm: What are your favorite religious documents? Have you
drafted any religious
docs lately? Are you inspired, controlled,
channeling? What sort of entity
sends messages through you? Do you produce
aesthetically pleasing documents?
Are they meaningful to anyone but you? Do
you force others to regard them?
# God speaks to each of us in 'code' -
NSA hasn't decrypted it yet:
http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,155006946,00.html# Kentuckian who can't read hand-copies the entire Bible
- so?
http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,155007077,00.html_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
# Hacking in Russia Is
Serious. MOSCOW (AP) Unlike counterparts in richer
countries, most
Russian hackers are not just motivated by the subversive
thrill of
cracking code & embarrassing corporate titans or govt agencies -
they're driven by empty pockets. http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9473359@ It's hard to price a piece of information until you
know what the info is,
after which you can't return it. That's why
ideas make bad commodities:
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/highlights/sounds_silence/index.html: What is your information/interpretation/intuition
worth? D'ya auction it
on the open market? Does your conspiracy/cartel
control its supply/demand?
Is control just a game to you? Has your control
been simulated yet? Where?
# How about a B.A. in Quake? Educators to
offer advanced degree in games.
Dr. Doom: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2455068,00.html# PlayStation2 Fever Grips Japan: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9473505 &
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_665000/665765.stm# High-End Hex Hits Nocturne: www.dailyradar.com:80/news/game_news_2034.html_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
# TRUTH-RAKGOTHO (ANC)
Masemola was suspected of having baboons and a
tokoloshi in her
house. She was called to the meeting, during which she
"agreed again
that she was a witch and she had a tokoloshi and baboons in
her
house." http://www.anc.org.za:80/ancdocs/briefing/nw20000229/25.html# FastFood Shooting Suspect Kept 'Satan List' - Satan
denies responsibility:
www.apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/03/03/restaurants0303_01.html# Psychic Gives Her Spin on Utah Sports - pictures are
projected into
her mind: http://www.sltrib.com/2000/feb/02272000/sports/29855.htm# Boyfriend allegedly sets Hialeah psychic on fire - she
didn't see it
coming: http://www.herald.com/content/sun/docs/044775.htm: D'ya keep baboons, tokoloshis, Satan lists, box scores,
Bics around your
abode? Do these constitute evidence against you? D'ya
foresee trouble? From
where? Have you taken evasive maneuvers yet? Can you
stave-off disaster? Eh?
# College lifts interracial dating ban - but
Catholics still anathema:
http://www.pioneerplanet.com/seven-days/1/news/docs/013350.htm# Gay pride parade in Sydney draws thousands of onlookers
- crowd expected
to reach 750,000. Zowie. http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9473576# Military missing lesson on gays: http://www.msnbc.com/news/377792.asp_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
# Top Engineering Impacts Of The 20th
Century: Electrification Most Vital.
100 years ago, life was a
constant struggle against disease, pollution,
deforestation,
treacherous working conditions, & enormous cultural divides
unbreachable with current communications technologies. By the end of
the
20th century, the world had become a healthier, safer, and more
productive
place, primarily because of engineering achievements.
Distribution and
sanitation: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000303075501.htm# Maths thesis signals new digital era - the end of
words, equations? A new
visual notation system invented by an ANU
PhD student could revolutionise
the world of mathematics and launch
it into the digital age. Traditional
mathemeticians howl: http://www.anu.edu.au/pad/reporter/V31/1/maths.html@ Visual Notation: http://www.anu.edu.au/pad/reporter/tolmie/julie1.html@ MATHEMATICS! News/resources: http://www.scicentral.com/P-mathem.html: What's your favorite technology? Is it documented? Have
you devised new
documentation/notation/recording systems to describe your
technology? Have
you met resistance/capacitance/inductance? Are you making
the world better?
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# Panel urges dissolution of
Scientology in France. PARIS. Scientology, the
Los Angeles-based
religion treated with suspicion and hostility by several
Western
European governments, is now under siege in France, where an offi-
cial report has called for disbanding church operations there.
Electronic
voodoo failed: http://detnews.com/2000/religion/0003/01/03010011.htm# Project Freedon - MICROWAVE MIND-CONTROL:
http://www.isleofavalon.co.uk/local/h-pages/pro-freedom/mmc_tf.html# Ground Lost: The False Memory/Recovered Memory Therapy
Debate. Does
repressed memory exist? http://www.mhsource.com/pt/p991137.html@ MICROWAVE HARASSMENT AND MIND-CONTROL
EXPERIMENTATION:
http://www.webcom.com/~pinknoiz/coldwar/microwave.html: Would you rather have your mind controlled by
Scientologists, Illuminati,
govt researchers, ETs/MIBs,
satanic/demonic/devout cultists, robots, wolves,
telepaths, me? Are your
controllers in trouble with the law? Are you? How?
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Saturday, March 4, 2000 10:16 a.m.
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# These Aliens Like To Party -
believed to prefer spacewomen in their
underwear: http://www.post-gazette.com/magazine/20000303area1.asp@ UFOs, Aliens & Conspiracy in Popular Culture - The
End Time Delusion. By
feigning a disinclination towards domination,
the nonhumans are promoting
a seemingly peaceful agenda, fitting in
to the New Age Globalist "Star
Trek" paradigm. Liars: http://www.mt.net/~watcher/endtimedelusion.html: Who are your favorite aliens? Have aliens
deceived/received/conceived you
lately? D'ya party with ETs often? Are you
clad only in scanties? Are they?
# FACE OF SATAN SEEN OVER US CAPITOL!
- BLIND MAN REGAINS SIGHT & DUMPS UGLY
WIFE! - FLORIDA MAN
SCREAMS FROM HIS GRAVE, MY BRAIN IS MISSING! - 12 U.S.
SENATORS ARE
SPACE ALIENS! http://www.sightings.com/politics6/weekly.htm_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
# Near Zaps Eros. (BBC) The
Near spacecraft, in orbit around asteroid Eros,
is using a laser
rangefinder to investigate the shadows on the space rock.
Zzzt.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_665000/665331.stm# Also - Eros is 'no ordinary rock' - lapidarists
salivating:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_650000/650937.stm# Beautiful Eros sends scientists into orbit - breathing
hard:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_647000/647151.stm# Near probe gets down to business - will file for IPO
soon:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_643000/643347.stm: Does Eros appear in your dreams? Have you lasered Eros
recently? Has Eros
fired back? Do you want to inhabit/exploit/pulverize
Eros? Has Eros crushed
you lately? Should Eros be left to robots, aliens,
deities/demons, me? Why?
# Kitt Peak Telescope to Close - no
replacement for many years:
http://www.academicpress.com/inscight/02282000/grapha.htm@ Deep Space One: http://nmp.jpl.nasa.gov/ds1/@
Malin - robotic spacecraft: http://www.msss.com/_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
# 600 Sect Leaders Busted In China. BEIJING
(NANDO) - Chinese cops have
arrested at least 600 leading members of
a meditation-exercise sect they
outlawed as an "evil cult," similar
to the Falun Gong spiritual movement.
And at least 10 Falun Gong
members were seized while attempting to medi-
tate in Tiananmen
Square. http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9473622# Senior Tibetan Buddhist monk dies in China at 74 -
Authorities swear he
wasn't beaten, tortured: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9473621: What's your favorite belief-system struggle? Do all
belief systems neces-
sarily conflict with all others? Have you
beaten/detained/kidnapped/killed/
purged any heretics/dissidents/apostates
lately? Have you run for cover??
# Karmapa may enter monastery
clandestinely. NEW DELHI. The tussle for suc-
cession within the
followers of the Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism has
acquired a new
twist with the followers of Thaye Dorje claiming that his
rival,
Ugyen Trinley Dorje may be planning to clandestinely enter Sikkim.
Poof. http://www.indiaserver.com/thehindu/2000/03/04/stories/0204000q.htm_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
# ROBOTICS TEAM GOES "MICRO"
TO COMBAT CRIME, AID RESCUE EFFORTS. The gunman
is barricaded in a
small room with hostages. As he calculates his next
move, he fails
to notice that he is not alone--not by a long shot. A hand-
ful of
robots the size of Palmetto bugs move in on him, navigating floors
& furniture, scaling walls and ceilings, tunneling through the
ventilation
system. Before he realizes what is happening, the SWAT
team storms into
the room... http://www.newswise.com/articles/2000/3/ROBOT.MSU.html# Ground-Penetrating Radar Detects Hazardous Waste -
nothing can ever be
hidden enough: http://www.newswise.com/articles/2000/2/GPRADAR.OSU.html: Do robots/satellites/aliens know who/where/what you
are, what you're doing
right now, what you think, why you
live/emote/believe? Are you tracked wher-
ever you go? D'ya know
where/what/who/why you are right now? Are you sure?
# USGS's Most
Popular Maps Now Available Online- Topography via
Terraserver:
http://www.usgs.gov/public/press/public_affairs/press_releases/pr1164m.html@ MAPS http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
# Researchers Demo Wireless
Chip Interconnect. With wireless tech now link-
ing millions of
users on the global cellular network, can wireless chip
interconnects be far off? http://techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20000302S0004# Crystal clear way to self-assembling 3D computer chip.
Chemists may create
the world's first 3D computer chip, placing
layers of conductive molecules
which 'grow' into thin strands
between computer chips. These strands will
form the electrical
connections and create the revolutionary 3D computer
circuit.
http://alphagalileo.org/fetchpn.asp?id=3117&accept_language=en: Should telepathic chips grow in the interstices of your
body's cells? When
will you be totally linked, totally computing, totally
borg? How will you
sculpt your future physical/mental/spiritual reality?
Will you fuck up??
@ Nanotechnology: Shaping the World Atom by
Atom
http://itri.loyola.edu/nano/IWGN.Public.Brochure/# Microsculpture: http://helix.nature.com/nsu/000302/000302-11.html_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Brains'R'Us:
# The
Neurology of the "F-Word" - Researcher Studies the Science of
Cursing: http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/nyu-tno021500.html# Researchers Discover a Neurological Link Between
Language and
Predictability that Operates Without Conscious
Awareness. Fancy
that! http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/ehsc-erd030100.html# Several Serotonin-Boosting Drugs Cause Changes in Some
Brain Cells -
oddly deformed: http://www.jeffersonhealth.org/news/2000/022900b.html# Newborn Neurons Learn Scents - these neurons are
important for learning
and memory: http://www.academicpress.com/inscight/02292000/graphb.htm# Are Men from Mars and Women from Venus? Are you from
Earth, Uranus,
Persephone? http://www.newswise.com/articles/2000/2/GENDER.BYU.html# Music May Be Universal, But the Explanation Could Have
a Western
Bias: http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/cor-mmb021600.html# CLIMATE AT BIRTH MAY INFLUENCE ADULT OBESITY. Can we
predict adult obesity
based on when someone was born, and how cold
it was that winter? Babies
who are exposed to cold early are at
higher risk for obesity later in
life. Brrr. http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=28690# Mind of a Dog http://newscientist.com/features/features.jsp?id=ns22281_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
"I'm here to celebrate
my sexuality
It's always been a mystery to
me
I wonder what kind of guy to
be?
Human, alien, or
chimpanzee?
Da da dum, da da, doo doo
doo, dee
Gettin' in touch with
my inner squid..."
http://www.sonic.net/~ric/music/mysongs6.htm#imhe* Rev.R.Carter, ULC * http://skepticon.pitas.com * FAX:
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