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# UFO Conference At University Of Wyoming - UFOlogoists Swarm Over Laramie!
  LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) - UFO theorists have been descending on a conference at
  the U. of Wyoming. http://www.trib.com/HOMENEWS/WYO/UFOConference.html
# Are jet contrails a threat? http://straightdope.com/columns/000616.html

# MERCY KILLINGS AND THE CULLING OF THE ELDERLY - they're old - nobody will
  miss them - prepare the hypo: http://www.sightings.com/general2/euth.htm
# Euthanasia machine comes to UK: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10028354
# Animal Genocide? Who's next? http://www.dwe.csiro.au/crcs/vbc/detail.htm

# It's a wrap for modern mummies: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10027780
# MUMMIFICATION FOR A PRICE: http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGIQIE0CZ9C.html
# Get Yourself Mummified, Eh? http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10027745
# Do tinfoil helmets provide adequate protection against mind control rays?
  How much do I need? Why? http://www.straightdope.com/columns/000609.html

: Would'ya rather euthenize UFOlogists/seniors/Egyptians/mindcontrollers/me?
Have you wrapped any tinfoil around your mummy's head lately? Do chemtrails
mess up your UFOs paint? Have you culled any universities lately? Which??
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Genes'R'Us:

# BLUEPRINT OF THE BODY: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2000/genome/
# Genetic Discrimination Fears. What happens if there's a genetic revolution
  in medicine and nobody shows up? Experts worry that patients won't want to
  use new biotec if jobs/insurance are threatened by genetic discrimination.
  http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000626/11/genetic-discrimination

# Big Changes for Small Medicine. Researchers designing atomic materials to
  cure disease must understand other disciplines. Learn from watching how
  nature works. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,37247,00.html
# Chromosome 22 Sheds Light On Translocations - hotspot for heart defects,
  leukemias and schizophrenia. http://unisci.com/stories/20002/0627001.htm

# Colorblindness gene identified - end of a 30-year search - whew:
  http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567666160-b8e
# Whose Genes Are They, Anyway? The human genome may be mapped, but
  there's still a mystery to be solved. Where did all that DNA come from?
  http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,37216,00.html?tw=wn20000627

# Adam and Eve Mystery - Did Eve come before Adam? Adam and Eve would have
  had a tough time getting together. They may have lived in different eras.
  Genetic evidence suggests: http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk/adam.htm
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# Powering up the Grid. Supercomputer centres around the world are linking
  up over the Internet to create a new generation of enormously powerful ma-
  chines. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_806000/806410.stm

# Also - link - link - link - Seti@home gets an upgrade - link - link:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_613000/613444.stm
# Screensaver to predict climate change - micros of the world, unite:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_473000/473856.stm

# Germany Wants Hate Crackdown - 'What is forbidden offline must be forbid-
  den online' -- http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,37251,00.html
# White House on Cookies: Doh! But we won't do it again. Well, not much:
  http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,37233,00.html?tw=wn20000627

: Have you linked y'rself into the global supersystem yet? Is your pacemaker
spamming you? Does y'r fridge get hatemail? Is y'r fax searching for aliens?
Are you wired so tight that you'll never break free? Do you call it slavery?

# Amartya Sen's economics goes beyond the realm of private consumption
  out into the real world, where families and friends have claims on
  us. http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/highlights/sen/index.html
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WacoRama:

# Witness heard Davidian say,'Light the fire.' A member of the Branch David-
  ians testified he heard a fellow sect member say, "Light the fire," just
  minutes before their wood-frame HQ erupted in flames on 19 Apr 1993, near
  Waco TX. http://www7.mercurycenter.com/premium/nation/docs/natdig27.htm

# Witness sez Koresh never called feds 'The Beast.' A former Branch Davidian
  whose pregnant daughter died in the fire that brought an end to the sect's
  51-day standoff with federal agents testified that David Koresh never lab-
  eled the agents enemies. http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10028668

# FEDS AGGRAVATED WACO FIRE. Tanks smashing holes into the Branch Davidian
  complex contributed to the fire: http://chblue.com/Article.asp?ID=366
# Fire expert testifies at Waco trial - 'Yup, it was a fire, all right'
  Hot: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567669543-db4

# Who started Waco fire? Expert for sect says govt missed potential
  ignition sources: http://dallasnews.com/waco/102615_waco_27tex.ART.html
# Heard "rushing, screaming, crying" www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10022830
# Waco Trial Focuses on Tanks: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10020979
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# Indonesia Muslim-Christian fighting spirals out of control. Church demands
  UN intervention: www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567667052-968
# Legality of church health plans: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10024601
# NEW TYPE OF VACATION: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=4334
# Gorbachev Visits Vatican: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10029339
@ Are there jokes in the Bible? http://straightdope.com/classics/a5_244.html

# RELATIONS BETWEEN HOLY SEE AND COMMUNIST STATES (1963 - 1989) - "The
  Martyrdom of Patience" http://ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=4387
# Allies Knew Nazi Plan for Italian Jews - "thorough eradication" was no
  secret -- http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000627/hi_nazis.html
# EXCOMMUNICATION WARNING FOR CHINESE CATHOLICS - straighten up or go to
  Hell, you commies: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=4325

# At Sanger, Science Is Religion. From its ornate, stained-glass entrance
  to the reverential atmosphere of its employees, England's Sanger Centre --
  whose scientists helped map the human genome -- is nearly a religious
  experience. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,37229,00.html

: What's your favorite religious experience? D'ya feel mystical when you do
science/politics/art/sex/war/genocide/demagoguery? Have you excommunicated/
sequenced/compromised/martyred/erased anyone lately? Did spirits move you??
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SkeptiBlinks:

# UNDERSEA MOUNTAINS YIELD LIVING 'FOSSILS.' Between the devil and the deep
  blue Coral and Tasman seas bordering New Caledonia & Tasmania, scientists
  have discovered hundreds of new species on extinct underwater volcanoes
  rising from the sea floor. Traces of lost civilizations have been covered
  over: http://CNN.com/2000/NATURE/06/26/living.fossils.enn/index.html

# Solving a Solar Magnetic Mystery www.alienzoo.com/news/y/200006230008.cfm
# Winning the Next Space Race. Representatives of the nascent space-tourism
  industry paint a rosy picture of its future, while critiquing government
  policies that hold back entrepreneurial opportunities in the U.S. Tax me:
  http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,37236,00.html?tw=wn20000627

# UN report predicts AIDS will kill half the teens in some African nations -
  kiss the continent bye-bye: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10029628
# INFECTED ARMY DOCTOR HANDLED BIOLOGICAL TOXINS WITHOUT PROTECTION.
  BioWar researcher is a moron: http://chblue.com/Article.asp?ID=363
# What's up with people who think they're infested with bugs?
  http://www.straightdope.com/columns/000623.html
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  "Don't be led astray into the paths of virtue." --Oscar Wilde

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@ BorgLove: http://www.scifi.com/exposure/frameup/allisfull.html
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# Inventor building rocket in back yard - Bend,Oregon, is next spaceport.
  Brian Walker, a toy inventor with no college degree and almost no flight
  experience, plans to blast himself into space next summer in a rocket he
  is building in his back yard. Walker, who looks more like a middle-aged TV
  junkie than an astronaut,is spending $250k to fulfill a lifelong ambition.
  http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/news/local/html98/rock24m_20000624.html

@ Brian Walker, AKA Rocket Guy, <http://rocketguy.com/> is using the money
  he has made inventing toys <http://www.rocketguy.com/toys.html> to fulfill
  his childhood dream <http://rocketguy.com/rocket/garden.html> of building
  a rocket and launchpad <http://www.rocketguy.com/rocket/garden2.html> in
  his backyard and launching himself <http://www.rocketguy.com/rocket.html>
  30 miles into space. The launch is scheduled for April, 2001, but until
  then he has images <http://www.rocketguy.com/movies/anim.html> and a movie
  <http://rocketguy.com/movies/rocket.mpg> of a computer-simulated launch.
  You can do it too - blastoff to http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Science/

: Have you built any orbital rockets lately? Have you launched yourself? Did
you survive/crash/orgasm/puke? Would you rather get to space by rocket/magic
/balloons/antigravity/chariot? Are your neighbors glad to see you go? When??
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# Mission to Mars -- mankind is poised for its greatest adventure --
  colonising red planet: http://www.alienzoo.com/news/a/200006260004.cfm
# Mars water - illogical: http://www.alienzoo.com/news/a/200006260002.cfm
# Ready for a dip on Mars? http://www.alienzoo.com/news/a/200006260003.cfm
# Mars may hold twice as much water as previously thought - Ares Cup yacht
  races planned for year 2020 http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10027627

# Da Vinci's parachute flies. (BBC) A British man proves Leonardo Da Vinci
  right by testing his 500-year-old parachute design from two miles high.
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_808000/808246.stm
# Also - Renaissance machines are reborn - unions want retroactive pay:
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_479000/479168.stm

: Have you designed any Renaissance machines suitable for Mars? Are the best
Martian machines hidden under the Pyramids; in Pentagon storerooms; at Area
51; underwater? Are the best machines Earthly, Martian, Solar, airbourne??

# Running on air. (SHNS) - Worldwide energy use is expected to double in the
  next 25 years. Can we help meet these needs with an energy source that's
  renewable, generates no pollution, has little environmental impact and is
  produced domestically? Yes: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10025701
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# FUTURE SPACE FLIGHT - FROM LASER LIGHT TO PLASMA POWER - get there first:
  www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/advanced_projects_000621.html
# Delayed Russian ISS service module set for July launch. (DPA) Maybe it'll
  work and/or maybe not: http://www.alienzoo.com/news/a/200006260008.cfm
# Chief designers to study readiness of Russian ISS module. (Itar-Tass News
  agency) -- Problematic? http://www.alienzoo.com/news/a/200006260007.cfm

# Missile Defense Critic Says Pentagon Tried To Silence Him. Washington
  (AFP) - A university professor who revealed that test data show a crucial
  flaw in the proposed US national missile defense (NMD) system said Monday
  he was visited by Pentagon security agents in what appeared to be a clumsy
  attempt to silence him. Urg. http://www.spacedaily.com/news/bmdo-00zz.html

# And - Send In The Submarines http://www.spacedaily.com/news/bmdo-00zx.html
# Clinton To Decide By Fall: http://www.spacedaily.com/news/bmdo-00zy.html
# Next Anti Missile Test: http://www.spacedaily.com/news/bmdo-00zw.html
# More Reports at SpaceWar.com: http://www.spacewar.com/

: What's y'r favorite missile system? Have you ever met a missile system you
didn't like? Have you criticized any missile systems lately? Have MiBs tried
to silence you? Are you problematic? Are your missiles? D'ya work? Why not?
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# THE UPS & DOWNS OF OZONE. (NASA) Scientists are watching carefully as the
  ozone layer, which protects animal & plant life from harmful solar ultra-
  violet radiation, begins an uncertain recovery. Ozone destroying chemicals
  in the atmosphere are declining, but the timing and nature of the expected
  recovery -- and even whether a recovery is occurring at all -- are contro-
  versial topics. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast26jun_1m.htm

$ INTRODUCING ELECTROSHIELD OF NORTH AMERICA. ESONA.com represents a growing
  network of professionals dedicated to introducing practical solutions to
  the world's #1 environmental health problem, EMF (electromagnetic field)
  pollution. Avoid writhing in mute nostril agony: http://www.esona.com/

# Anti-locust drive 'created havoc'. A chemical used in a Madagascar control
  programme killed other species. http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10024808
# Right whales face extinction. The Northern right whale could soon become
  extinct in the Atlantic. http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10024812

: Are you threatened by ozone/EMF/chemicals/harpoons? Do the voices in your
head tell you to resist/surrender/meditate/sell? Are you gradually recover-
ing? What's your favorite form of havoc? Have you wreaked havoc lately? How?
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# SENSITIVITY & SPECIFICITY OF MINI-MENTAL STATE EXAM IN A SPANISH-SPEAKING
  POPULATION.This exam may have little diagnostic utility among participants
  with a low level of education. http://psychiatry.medscape.com/23572.rhtml
# DECLINE IN COGNITIVE ABILITIES? Do declines in memory and other cognitive
  domains occur in elderly individuals at the threshold of becoming demented?
  Do you remember the question? http://psychiatry.medscape.com/23584.rhtml

@ Oh god, the bugs! <http://insects.org/ced2/insects_psych.html> The bugs!
  <http://geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/9542/directory.html> They're crawling
  <http://www.skinparasites.com/> under my skin! The doctors say they can't
  see them, <http://169.237.210.130/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7443.html> but I KNOW
  THEY'RE THERE! Now get healthy at http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Health/

# Eating Less Seems To Fend Off Brain Diseases:
  http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10026630
# Cocaine And Alcohol Together Gang Up On Brain:
  http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10026631

: D'ya remember the last time you were devoured by bugs? Were you agitated?
Were you tested? In what language? Had you consumed too much food/booze/coke
before they devoured you? Did they eat your brain first? Did you notice? Eh?
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  "I watched in helpless horror as the monster clawed its way up the TV
   tower and wondered what could be in the mutated genes of these Alaska
   king crabs which caused them to snatch only Canadian aircraft from the
   sky." --Walter J. Murphy

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@ RobotMan Today: http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/robotman/ab.html
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# Ghost of Room 23. GLEN HELEN, NT (AAP) Staff at historic Glen Helen Resort
  avoid walking past #23 at night. It seems to have an unregistered, unseen
  tenant: the ghost of a cook murdered at the then cattle and sheep station
  more than 100 years ago. http://www.alienzoo.com/news/p/200006260001.cfm

# Animal Survives Mutilation.(NIDS) A 2 year old Cow that Survived an Animal
  Mutilation. On May 20, 2000 NIDS was alerted to a two year old Charolais
  cow which had been mutilated near Cuba New Mexico, three days previously
  but the animal had survived. The animal was recovering at a nearby veteri-
  nary clinic. http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m26-015.shtml

: Have you survived/enjoyed/promulgated mutilation lately? Have you murdered
/mutilated/annoyed any people/cattle/chickens/aliens/robots/deities/lawyers
lately? D'ya enjoy self-mutilation? If you can't mutilate yourself, who can?

@ Why not give in to your morbid impulses and read some real suicide notes:
  <http://suicideletters.web1000.com/suicide%20letters.html> the poignant,
  <http://suicideletters.web1000.com/suicidelettersmoms.html> the adolescent
  <http://suicideletters.web1000.com/suicideletterskellikattie.html> & even,
  <http://suicideletters.web1000.com/suicidelettersauthors.html> apparently,
  that of the creator of the site. http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Culture/
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# SEXUAL ACTIVITY IN SCHIZOPHRENIC GALS? True/false: Women w/ schizophrenia
  are less sexually active than schizophrenic men, thus at lower risk for
  sexually transmitted diseases. http://psychiatry.medscape.com/23571.rhtml
# Satanic abuse no myth, say experts  Satanic abuse does take place in UK:
  www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/This_Britain/2000-04/satanic300400.shtml

# Do actresses prefer doing nude scenes as blondes? Do directors like blond
  hair on naked actresses? Are you naked, blonde, direct, scenic, acting?
  http://www.salon.com/health/sex/urge/2000/05/09/eroticism/index.html
# Show me a man's tattoo, and I will show you his soul — or at least his
  criminal record, http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/18/jun00/tattoo.htm

@ EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT ORGONE ENERGY BUT WERE AFRAID
  TO ASK: http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com/weirdsci.html#reich
  [sex powers the universe, sex powers life, sex is reality]

: D'ya find tattoos/schizophrenia/blondes/orgasms/scenery/criminality/robots
too stimulating/embarrassing/frightening/mystical/infectious/incriminating?
Are you more/less sexually active than blondes/tattooers/priests/robots/me?
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# NICOTINE DEPENDENCE IN SCHIZOPHRENICS PERSISTS DESPITE USE OF NICOTINE
  PATCH. Smoking too much: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/23342.rhtml
# EXTENDED-RELEASE VENLAFAXINE BENEFITS PATIENTS WITH GENERALIZED ANXIETY
  DISORDER. Drug me NOW!!!! http://psychiatry.medscape.com/23430.rhtml
# MIRTAZAPINE: POTENTIAL ADVANTAGES IN ADOLESCENTS WITH DEPRESSION ASSOC-
  IATED WITH CHRONIC ILLNESS. http://psychiatry.medscape.com/23513.rhtml

$ NEED SOME ZEST IN YOUR LIFE? From: <ashley@earthlink.net> --Get VIAGRA the
  breakthrough medication for impotence...delivered to your mailbox... with-
  out leaving your computer. http://203.24.100.141/mednet/viagra_Order.htm
@ From <ric@sonic.net> -- Fuck off & die, spamshit! And the dog you rode on.
@ From <MAILER-DAEMON@marine.sonic.net> 207.217.121.98 doesnt like recipient
  Remote host said: 550 <ashley@earthlink.net>... Mailbox size exceeds quota

: Are you medicated? Should you be? D'ya hawk medications on the Net?Are you
a spamhead? Does your email overflow with deaththreats? Do deaththreats give
you a generalized anxiety disorder? Have you bought any venlafaxine lately?
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# PRIVATE AID COULD SPEED LAUNCH OF FEDERAL SUPER PORTAL. A developer of
  sophisticated Internet search engines has offered to build a government-
  wide portal free of charge to make it easier for Internet users to find
  information posted online by federal agencies. Partnering with BigBro:
  http://CNN.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/26/gov.portal.idg/index.html

# U.S. Government "Cyber Mod Squad" Seeks to Disarm Cyber Terrorists;
  Computerworld Report Uncovers the Latest Technology to Combat Cyber
  Crime. Groovy: http://news.excite.com/news/bw/000620/ma-computerworld
# Gov't to ID nation in nuke spy case - 3 billion fingerprints taken -
  busy: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567669499-555
# WWII Spymaster Dead: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10027732

: Have you allied with any govt security services lately? Are they easy to
infiltrate? Have they infiltrated you? Does everybody infiltrate everybody
else? Is it easier than working for a living? Who watches all the watchers?
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# US MONITORING BISHOPS, PRO-LIFERS. (CWNews) The US Justice Dept has been
  coordinating an effort to monitor pro-life groups, including the National
  Conference of Catholic Bishops, under the pretense of tracking potential
  "domestic terrorism." http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=4388
# Church faces US priest shortage: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9990359

# BISHOPS SCORCH FBI "CRIMINAL" DB. The National Conference of Catholic
  Bishops – among other groups – has condemned the use of a secret Justice
  Dept criminal database to track and monitor peaceful and law abiding pro-
  life organizations, including whether such groups have political clout or
  are opposed to Clinton administration policies on health care, homosexuals
  and abortion. Bugger. http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=4389

: Does y'r belief system qualify as a terrorist/criminal conspiracy under US
law? D'ya promote discrimination/gambling/psychopathy/alcoholism/perversion?
Can/should/will you be tracked by US authorities? D'ya subvert US laws? How?
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# Vermont gay union block effort nixed - no other barriers to gay/lesbian
  couples: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567667284-814
# NAVARRE APPROVES ADOPTION OF CHILDREN BY HOMOSEXUAL COUPLES - Church goes
  ballistic, naturally: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=4337
# Gay Clergy Shakes Norway Church http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10014377

# PLANNED PARENTHOOD SAYS VATICAN WAGING WAR ON WOMEN. ROME (CWNews) - The
  International Planned Parenthood Federation accused PopeJP2 & the Catholic
  Church of waging a psychological war on women by teaching that abortion &
  contraception are sinful. http://ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=4376
# Brazil blasts church on AIDS/condoms www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9987061
# Lasers to the aid of embryos http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?10026481

: Does your belief system have severe hangups about sex? D'ya have problems
with your genitals/skin/brain/fists? Do your problems spill-over into social
realms? D'ya prefer waging war on women/men/kids/animals/aliens/embryos/me?
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  "Airplanes fly slowly on Sundays," she pondered (misinterpreting the muted
   roar of lawn mowers), and soon she would discern that there is more in
   life than C-section scars and backgammon, and that the right man *will*
   haunt every chamber of the nautilus of her mind. --Estella Kohler Leppers

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# Filer's Files #25. MARS HAS LIQUID WATER AND POSSIBLE LIFE? THE PREVALENCE
  OF UFO SIGHTINGS IN AN ALLERGY PRACTICE. NEW YORK CITY HUGE RED LIGHT UFO.
  FLORIDA LIGHTS CHASED - KANSAS UFO FILMED - NEW MEXICO OVAL OBJECT - UFO
  IN BR.COLUMBIA, CANADA - UK UFOs BLITZ NORTH UK & SECRET REPORT RELEASED -
  ESTONIA SPHERE -AUSTRALIA SAUCER - NASA SHUTTLE STS 101 VIDEO SHOWS UFOs -
  DANIEL SHEEHAN TELLS OF SECRET UFO DOCUMENTS - PRESIDENT REAGAN ON THE
  "ALIEN THREAT?" http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m27-001.shtml

# UK UFO Sightings Increase. SUFFOLK - UFOs FILMED IN LONDON - GRIMSBY,
  YORKSHIRE - SOUTH LITTLETON. No escape: http://www.caus.org/mu062700.htm
# FIRST CANADIAN CROP CIRCLES OF 2000 REPORTED IN SASKATCHEWAN. Canuck cer-
  ealogists drooling: http://ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m27-007.shtml
# Today in UFO History, 27 June - 1967: the New York Post runs the story
  "U Thant and UFOs" - 1959: Day two of the Father Gill sightings - 1947:
  Two UFO sightings occur in Arizona. http://www.alienzoo.com/home.cfm

: What's y'r favorite UFO sighting? Has y'r UFO been sighted often? Were you
observed cutting crop-circles; spewing chemtrails; abducting attorneys? Have
you been filmed/taped/wired? D'ya communicate with world leaders? Why not??
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@ Sleep Paralysis Vs Abduction. There is such a big difference between sleep
  paralysis & abduction, that I have trouble believing anyone could confuse
  the 2 or even suggest the first when the second is claimed by the victim.
  No connection? http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m27-005.shtml

# PREDICTING COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE IN ALCOHOLICS & NONALCOHOLICS: SPECIFICA-
  TION OF AFFECTIVE, CHILDHOOD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS, AND ANTISOCIAL VARIABLES.
  Should childhood attention deficit disorder or childhood conduct disorder
  be considered a potential contributor to the magnitude of cognitive
  impairment in alcoholics? http://psychiatry.medscape.com/23500.rhtml

@ NASA's Smoking Gun: An Astronomer's View: http://www.caus.org/pn062700.htm
@ UFOs & SETI. UFO believers & SETI proponents mix about as well as cats &
  dogs. Tho the aim of the 2 groups is alien contact, their means could not
  be more different. http://ufomind.com/ufo/updates/2000/jun/m27-008.shtml

: What's your favorite cognitive disorder? D'ya suffer sleep paralysis after
drinking? Are you antisocial in the presence of SETI/UFO/CIA/STP proponents?
D'ya have a smoking gun? D'ya point it at astronomers/psychiatrists/aliens?
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# JAPAN SEA ERUPTION MAY BE UNDER WAY. An underwater eruption by Japan's Mt.
  Oyama volcano might be under way; magma below the Pacific Ocean floor may
  be touching water and could trigger an explosion. Godzilla-like creatures
  seen in the waves: http://CNN.com/2000/ASIANOW/east/06/27/japan.volcano/

# CHILDREN OF CHERNOBYL EVACUEES REPORT MENTAL HEALTH SIMILAR TO THAT OF
  CLASSMATES. Nukes not so bad: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/23396.rhtml
# Lightning Bolt Kills 7: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000627/07/odd-dc
# Scorpion Skyjack: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000623/08/odd-scorpion-dc

# Global warming threatens cities: www.alienzoo.com/news/n/200006260006.cfm
# U.S. Coastal Structures Threatened. (AP) -- 1/4 of the buildings within
  500 feet of the nation's coastlines are threatened by erosion in the next
  60 years. http://www.earthchangestv.com/breaking/June2000/0627coastal.htm

: What's your favorite (un)natural hazard? Would you rather be threatened by
eruptions, radiation, lighting, scorpions, inundation, erosion, robots, me?
Do catastrophes threaten y'r mental health? Can mental health be cured? How?
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@ UNDERGROUND MAZES. Since the declassification of the new ground-penetra-
  ting radar 2 years ago, the most staggering data has emerged of complex &
  labyrinthine underground systems in various parts of the world. At places
  like Guatemala in the South Americas, tunnels have been mapped under the
  Mayan pyramid complex at Tikal, which extend a full 800 kilometres to the
  opposite side of the country. Investigators remarked, it was possible to
  understand how half a million Mayan Indians escaped the decimation of
  their culture. http://members.tripod.com/~Ravenwoods/index-55Giza.html

@ The Stargate Conspiracy - Revealing the truth behind extraterrestrial
  contact, military intelligence and the mysteries of Ancient Egypt. Read
  all about it! http://www.templarlodge.com/stargate.html#Introduction
@ "The Dolmen Path - Russian Megalithic Site" -- http://megalith.ru

: Have you discovered/penetrated/obliterated (m)any under/over-ground mega-
lithic sites lately? D'ya help humans build megaliths? D'ya prefer to build
pyramids/tunnels/dolmens/obelisks/prisons? D'ya have an edifice complex? Eh?
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# From Genomics to Eugenics? (Wired) With the mapping of the human genome,
  some scientists wonder if the development will bring about a movement to
  create 'designer humans.' Others salivate over the prospect of Godhood.
  http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,37219,00.html?tw=wn20000626

# 'Designer people' unlikely. WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists who announced
  virtual completion of the human genetic pattern said Monday that they saw
  little likelihood that this new knowledge would be used to build "designer
  people" or change patterns of heredity. Some folk are fearful that science
  will change genes so succeeding generations will inherit these changes.
  This is called germline manipulation. But how else will we improve the
  species? http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2567666954-f77

: Have you designed any people lately? Are you disappointed at the results?
Would you like to scrub the genome clean and start over? What species would
make the best base to build from? Would you rather use carbon/silicon/gold?
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# Negotiating Gene Science Ethics. (Wired) Researchers say a complete human
  genome map brings with it a new age of medicine. But ethics experts warn
  that public misunderstanding could thwart potential breakthroughs. Gosh.
  http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,36886,00.html?tw=wn20000626

# Liver Cells From Bone Marrow. (AP) Liver cells have been found to come
  from an unlikely source -bone marrow- raising the possibility that people
  with hepatitis and other liver diseases could somehow use their own cells
  to heal themselves, http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000627/08/liver-cells

# Sizing Up Nanotechnology. (Wired) Scientists say atomic machines could
  solve many of the world's ills and reinvent computing. One biophysicist
  cautions that we still have much to learn. What? How could that be?!?!?
  http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,37217,00.html?tw=wn20000626

: Should/can/will humans rebuild themselves biogenetically? Should/can/will
such work be stopped? D'ya offend one or more deities by mucking around with
the code of life? Should/can/will such deities strike us down? If they don't
does that mean that biogenetic manipulation is OK? Do we have carte blanche?
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