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@ Watch For Dykes: http://www.washblade.com/forum/cartoons/dykes/000616a.htm
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# Oviparous Chupacabras. The possibility that dreaded Chupacabras could be
  oviparous (egg-laying) has caused consternation among believers & skeptix
  alike. The fact that it's reappeared in northern Chile's formerly nitrate-
  rich north has added more fuel to the speculative bonfire. Are we indeed
  dealing with a hybrid of a simian entity and a South American flightless
  bird(the ñandu)? http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m18-006.shtml

# SCIENTISTS FIND LONG-SOUGHT MISSING LINK -- ALIVE & WELL! PORT MORESBY,
  Papua New Guinea -- In what excited anthropologists are hailing as "the
  greatest scientific discovery in 100 years," researchers have found a
  half-man, half-ape creature that could be the long-sought Missing Link!
  The hairy man-beast, which stands about 5-foot-8, is covered from head to
  toe in thickly matted hair like a gorilla, but aspects of the hands and
  feet, the shape of the skull and the facial features are more human than
  ape-like, experts say. http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1990.html

: What's your favorite cryptozoological entity? Are you cryptozoological? Do
you hide? Where? Do you lay eggs? Have you been laid lately? Are you hairy?
Is there a correlation? Are you flightless, missing, speculative, tedious??
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# Their spiders have horns. MONTREAL. A firm describes its quest to develop
  transgenic goats that produce spider silk as 'the holy grail of the mater-
  ials industry' - http://nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=000617/320353

# Chinese Clone Goat From Ear. Scientists in China have announced the birth
  of the first goat cloned from adult ear cells. Silk purses to be produced
  soon: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newslink/weekly/newsnat-17jun2000-39.htm

# Canadians support cloning, conditionally. TORONTO - Most Canadians support
  use of genetic engineering & cloning —under certain medical circumstances:
  http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2000/06/16/cloning000616

# GENETICALLY ENGINEERED 'LOVE BEES' - VERACRUZ, Mexico - Scientists working
  to control killer bees have accidentally unleashed a new menace: Love bees
  whose sting turns humans into out-of-control sex machines! MUTANT insect's
  sting causes men and women to experience a sexual frenzy. Insect lust goes
  extreme: http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1991.html

: Have you re-engineered any genes lately? Have you put eucalyptus-oil genes
into canines so dogs will repel fleas? Have you made any terrible blunders?
Is life on Earth doomed because of your arrogant meddling? Is that the plan?
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# Whether computers & robots help or hurt mankind is in our hands - for now.
  SAN JOSE. In an era in which intelligent computers soon may be able to zap
  Earth, ethics will be more important than ever. Adherence to the Golden
  Rule ("Do to others as you would have them do to you") will be essential
  for human survival. http://modbee.com/living/story/0,1155,168820,00.html

# Is Technology Moving Too Fast? Self-accelerating technologies - computers
  that make faster computers, for example - may have a destabilizing effect
  on society. http://time.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,47122,00.html

# Sewer robot learns to do our dirty work. CHECKING sewers for leaks, cracks
  & blockages is a task most of us wouldn't touch with a bargepole. But soon
  we won't need to, as a team of scientists has come up with a way to teach
  robots how to do it. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news_224342.html

: What's your favorite technological advance? Has it destabilized a society?
Are stable societies desirable/viable? Do robots hurt y'r species? Does y'r
kind hurt robots? Why can't we stop hurting each other? Is it foolish pride?
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# ACOUSTIC STARTLE TEST DISTINGUISHES EARLY- FROM LATE-ONSET SCHIZOPHRENIA.
  A simple test measuring response to a sudden loud noise can distinguish
  between early- and late-onset schizophrenia and could ultimately lead to
  radical changes in treatment: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/23275.rhtml

# PSYCHIATRIST GETS BRAINS BASHED IN -- BY HER OWN DAUGHTER! She specialized
  in criminal psychology and was acclaimed for her ability to spot dangerous
  nuts and anticipate their behavior. But she didn't predict her daughter
  would crush her skull! http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1988.html

# HOLLYWOOD PUTS THE 'PSYCHO' IN PSYCHOLOGIST. Would you like fava beans and
  a nice Chianti with that therapy session? According to a new study, Dr.
  Hannibal Lecter has lots of company when it comes to Hollywood's portrayal
  of unethical, demented and downright murderous psychologists in popular
  films. http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=35841&src=n3

: Have you startled any shrinks/schizos/aliens lately? Did they startle you?
Do fava beans drive you crazy? Is it a long drive? Are you cinematic? Where?
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# Canada Faces Threat From Islamic Groups. OTTAWA (Reuters) - Sunni Muslim
  extremists, including supporters of Saudi terrorism guru Osama bin Laden,
  now appear to be using Canada as a base to launch attacks in the United
  States, the Canadian counterintelligence agency said. So who's threatened?
  http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000616/wl/canada_terrorism_dc_1.html

@ The FUNdamentalist Humanifesto: How to Become Fooly Aware, By Swami
  Beyondananda. I have long been a supporter of the human potential move-
  ment. No matter what I see on the 6:00 news, I still feel we have the
  potential to be human. But how do we actually actualize our humanity? How
  do we humanifest our full potential? http://www.beyondananda.com/FUNd.htm

# N. Korea would welcome pope visit - "he would be very yummy, yes."
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567385646-355
# Members of banned sect die - Falung Gongers succumb in custody:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567387135-844

: Is your belief system dangerous/foolish/ruthless/odious/lonely? Have you
attacked/seduced/devoured anyone lately? Are you fully actualized? Why not?
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# Chechen policemen found beheaded. NAZRAN, Russia (AP) - A Muslim cleric
  was gunned down in Chechnya on Friday, hours after urging peace, and two
  Chechen police officers working for Russian authorities were found be-
  headed. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567386629-b77

# 6 beheaded in Saudi Arabia. RIYADH (AP) - 4 Pakistanis and 2 Bangladeshis
  were beheaded Friday in Saudi Arabia for crimes including murder and drug
  smuggling. At least 59 people have been beheaded in Saudi Arabia this
  year. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567387802-27a

# SPEEDING METEORITE KILLS SIX -- AT ATHEISTS' PICNIC! COPENHAGEN, Denmark -
  Six people were killed when a meteorite fell from the sky and crashed down
  onto the table where they sat -- during the annual picnic of the Danish
  Atheist Society! The mind-boggling tragedy is being hailed by Christian
  groups as "an act of God's vengeance" -- a warning to all who flaunt
  their defiance of Him.  http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1992.html

: Have your deities killed anyone lately? Do they act directly or via human
proxies? Is beheading the most sacred form of execution? Do you eat brains??
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  "Religion is the fashionable substitute for Belief." --Oscar Wilde

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* Yesterday's bulletins: http://web.pitas.com/skeptinews/16_06_2000.html
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@ Drive your karma, curb your dogma: http://www.beyondananda.com/karma.htm
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# RadioShack Plans Mission To Moon. FT. WORTH -- RadioShack Corp. announced
  it is partnering with a small Virginia-based space exploration start-up to
  put a robotic rover on the moon in 2003 sporting a RadioShack logo. Dubbed
  the "Icebreaker," the lunar rover will search for ice deposits in the per-
  manently dark spots on the moon, such as craters, in an attempt to locate
  possible fuel sources for future space travel. "It's an unorthodox form of
  brand sponsorship." http://www.dallasnews.com/latestnews/96603_moon.html

# FUTURE OF MIR IN DOUBT AFTER COSMONAUTS RETURN HOME - ETs may crash it
  into Chicago: http://CNN.com/2000/TECH/space/06/16/mir.folo/index.html
# SPACE ALIEN BOMB ORBITING EARTH! HOUSTON, Texas -- A deadly bomb, designed
  & built by space aliens, is orbiting Earth & could detonate at any moment,
  blowing us all to smithereens! www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/2006.html
# EVER-IMPERILED EARTH HANGS IN THE BALANCE IN 'TITAN A.E.' - kablooie:
  http://www.CNN.com/2000/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/16/titan.ae/index.html

: Do you have an interplanetary/commercial/spiritual/random mission? Is your
home planet imperiled constantly? Would you rather be imperiled by Reptoids,
Republicans, RadioShack, Russians, Romulans, robots, me? What's your logo??
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@ THREE VERY DIFFERENT TYPES OF SUBJECTIVE LIGHT. As a researcher of near-
  death states, I know that any type of near-death experience can be life
  changing. But as an experiencer, I can positively affirm that being bathed
  in The Light on the other side of death is more than life changing. That
  light is the very essence, the heart and soul, the all-consuming consum-
  mation of ecstatic ecstasy. http://www.cinemind.com/atwater/3sublight.html

# Researchers study a hen-eat-hen world. Why did the chicken cross the road?
  To eat her sister. Researchers are trying to explain cannibalism in hens.
  They're finger-lickin' good: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000613/odd-23
# New Chupacabra Fears. The elusive Chupacabra beast saga in Central America
  is getting more & more curious - and scarier. Next they'll move into your
  neighborhood, marry your sister: www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal061502.html

: Have you experimented with life, death, near-life, near-death lately? Have
you fed anyone to chickens/chupacabras/churchmen/children lately? Is life a
cannibalistic process? Is it life-changing? Would you marry a chupacabra??
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# Couple To Sue Over 'Haunted House' - A US couple who claim their dream
  home is haunted are trying to sue the developer's estate for building
  on an old graveyard. http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_7214.html

# UTAH TEEN NEARLY EATEN ALIVE BY CROCODILE. CANCUN, Mexico -- A spring
  break in paradise became a nightmarish struggle to survive when a Utah
  teen was viciously attacked by a man-eating crocodile -- and later, by
  money-hungry Mexican doctors! http://weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1987.html

# Terror In The Streets Of Doomed Pompeii. A series of disasters struck the
  Roman city of Pompeii in the days before it was destroyed by the eruption
  of Mt Vesuvius, scientists have revealed. Families of victims plan to file
  suit against volcano deity: http://www.sightings.com/general2/doomed.htm

: Have you been wronged by (super)natural forces lately? Did/will you sue?
Does nature owe you anything? Do you live amongst life/death/indeterminacy?
Would you rather be devoured by crocs/lava/ghosts/doctors/lawyers/aliens/me?
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# Big Bang Machine Begins Work - World Survives, So Far. The first spectacu-
  lar images of atoms smashing together at near-light speed spewed from an
  experiment that will eventually generate a state of matter that existed a
  microsecond after the Big Bang. A milestone in physics, the research has
  also generated heated debate and several doomsday theories - including one
  that argues the experiment might release particles called "strangelets,"
  which could gobble the globe. Fear: http://www.msnbc.com/news/314049.asp

# MISSING NUCLEAR SECRETS FOUND BEHIND LOS ALAMOS COPY MACHINE - beamed
  down: http://CNN.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/06/16/losalamos.disks/
# RECOVERED NUCLEAR SECRETS DISKS TO BE EXAMINED - alien contamination
  suspected: http://CNN.com/2000/US/06/17/los.alamos.disks/index.html

: Have you meddled with the interior workings of matter/energy/reality/time
lately? Have you stolen/borrowed/bought the secrets of destruction/creation/
confusion? Does y'r work threaten to gobble cities/planets/galaxies/reality?
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@ REMOTE VIEWING. The history of remote viewing is a long, convoluted tale
  of top-secret intrigue that touches upon mind-control, psychic research,
  the collective unconscious, and elements of both occultism and Scientology
  for good measure. http://www.mm2000.nu/futurec.html

# TOP-SECRET DIARY OF A PROPHECY TRACKER. How are you supposed to differen-
  tiate between statements, about future TRVed events, based on actual raw
  data and those which are merely postulations? http://mm2000.nu/damesc.html

# PT Kramer Abduction: http://www.trv-psitech.com/transcripts/ab030697.htm
# CONTRADICTORY VIEWS of Maj. ED DAMES : http://www.mm2000.nu/damesb.html
@ kOOKS mUSEUM: http://www.teleport.com/~dkossy/kooksmus.html

: Have you remote-viewed any significant events/locales/people lately? Were
you funded by govt/church/biz/alien/random agents? Have you been abducted to
prevent your public disclosures? Do you promise to never ever tell anyone??
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# AUTOPSY ON HERBALIFE FOUNDER FINDS DEATH CAUSED BY ACCIDENTAL OVERDOSE.
  Mark Hughes, the founder of Herbalife International, one of the world's
  leading distributors of herbal products, died of an accidental overdose
  after mixing alcohol with a "toxic level" of antidepressants. Terminated
  by the pharmaceutical cartel? http://CNN.com/2000/US/06/17/hughes.death/

# MAINSTREAM PRESS CATCHES ON TO EAR CANDLING. I had to laugh at this Time
  Magazine piece about ear candling -- I've been trying to convince people
  for years to give up the bizarre practice. Sticking a candle in your ear
  will not clean it out -- that's what earwax is for, friends. Say what??
  http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=36241&src=n2

# Human Growth Hormone Linked To CJD Death. A man given growth hormones as
  a child died after developing Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, an inquest heard
  yesterday. http://www.the-journal.co.uk/cfm/news_story.cfm?storyId=187864
# UK Cattle Accidentally-Infected By Deadly Virus From Research Program.
  Oops. Sorry about that. http://www.sightings.com/general2/cayt.htm

: Have you overdosed on any organic/pharmaceutical/contaminated/herbal/old
biological products lately? Have you poured hot wax into your ears/eyes/nose
/anus/dog? Is death organic? Are you? What's your favorite terminal ailment?
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  "I know so many men in London whose only talent is for washing.
   I suppose that is why men of genius so seldom wash; they are
   afraid of being mistaken for men of talent only!" --Oscar Wilde

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