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# Four UFOs Sighted in New
Jersey: http://www.caus.org/mu030300.htm# Professor States UFOs "Out There": http://www.caus.org/pn030300.htm@ CODE ZONE - "Is synchronicity contagious?" Can you catch it from
others?
Coincidence, conspiracy or consciousness? http://caus.org/cz030300.htm# THE UNIFIED ALIEN THEORY: No other way to explain it, really.
After
watching last week's Grammy Awards, one critic has figured it
out.
Mariah Carey and Celine Dionne? Nothing human about them.
THEY'RE
ALIENS! http://www.theage.com.au/news/20000303/A51770-2000Mar2.html: Who are your favorite aliens? Do you feel strangely
compelled to have sex
[rishathra] with aliens and/or other non-human
entities? Do they sometimes
seem remarkably humanoid? Do you give them
gifts? Are gifts appreciated??
# Some men send flowers, but that's a
little too humdrum for pioneering
space cowboy Bob Farquhar. He got
his wife an asteroid. Just a little
one: http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41761-2000Feb27.html_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
# More women contract AI
disease. (AP) - Autoimmune diseases caused when the
body starts
attacking itself overwhelmingly strike women & are often mis-
diagnosed: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564706785-f31@ Milk Is A Bad-News Substance! http://www.notmilk.com/#
Ebola cure possible. (BBC) Ebola, one of the most terrifying diseases
in
the world, may be treatable according to a new study, suggesting
that an
effective vaccine could be developed in the future. Send
doctors, drugs &
money: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_664000/664300.stm@ WHO Ebola factsheet: http://www.who.int/emc/diseases/ebola/index.html: What's your favorite disease? Have you
engineered/produced/promulgated any
new diseases lately? D'ya prefer
diseases that consume human bodies, leaving
little evidence? Are'ya
constantly having to counter treatments? Frustrated?
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# Scientists: Herbal research needed. CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) -
Herbal
remedies generally are safe, but at least one can cause
severe liver
damage - evidence that much more research into the
popular products is
needed. Nearly a third of the adult U.S.
population spends $4 billion a
year on herbs, which are sold as food
rather than regulated drugs. "Is
it a waste of money? Is it
dangerous? We don't have enough data to know."
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564696526-074 Update: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564706838-94f# Marijuana raises heart risks - legal problems
bothersome too:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564697991-dc4: What are your favorite herbs? Are they (il)legal? Is
legality irrelevant?
Have you re-engineered y'r endocrine system to produce
all the organic chem-
icals you want? So ancient secret societies support
your research? Happily?
# NHS Scandal Link To UK Masons. Leaders of
Britain's ruling medical body,
the General Medical Council, will be
questioned by MPs about possible
links between Freemasons in the
medical profession & a series of medical
scandals. www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/Health/2000-02/mason270200.shtml_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
# Ancient tools found in
China: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9466022# Asia's oldest axe tools discovered - axe-murder victims
found nearby:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_664000/664967.stm# World's oldest building discovered - code violations
force demolition:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_664000/664967.stm# Ancient 'tool factory' uncovered - unions protest
working conditions:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_336000/336555.stm@ <http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/people/GeorgeFitzmaurice/papers/gwf_bdy.html>
Graspable User Interfaces is an
interesting idea -- using physical objects
and artifacts to
manipulate virtual objects via a sensitive desktop. Real?
@ TheBrain
<http://www.thebrain.com/> is
nifty software that tries to help
you index things like bookmarks,
files, & other electronic content along
the lines of how you
think. Via http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Computing/: D'ya prefer physical/virtual/moral tools? Have you
designed/build/used any
new tools lately? Can tools help you explore the
spirit world, the hyperreal
realms, the interior of your consciousness, the
immensities of deities? How?
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# Virgin Mary Grabs
Spotlight in Brazil Carnival. RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters)
The Virgin
Mary took center stage in Brazil's Carnival preparations this
week
after Rio's archbishop asked police to confiscate religious images
from a samba school: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000303/12/odd-virgin# Ford: Keep religion out of politics. O'Hair: And vice
versa.
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564701310-a63# Iraqis rejects UN hajj plan - "let them eat
sawdust!"
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564695368-b03# Nun slayers seek El Salvador amnesty - only following
orders:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564698712-754# Nigerians fear religious violence in north -
Xian-Muslim carnage:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564699136-154: Does religion/politics/entertainment.economics belong
in each other's do-
mains? Are they inseparable? Is your belief system
entertaining? Is it more/
less/same fun than sex with zero/one/more
partners? Are they integrated??
# School yanks how-to-draw-Satan book
off shelves. Kids at one Las Vegas
school will now have to learn how
to draw the devil and 49 other scary
creatures on their own. A
minister doesn't like "Draw 50 Monsters,"
calling it abhorrent. "If
it were a book that taught children to draw
the pope or Billy
Graham, the politically correct crowd would be enraged."
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/lv-ed/2000/mar/03/509936980.html@ Take a < http://www.epcomm.com/draw50/monsters.htm > "Draw 50 Monsters"
sample lesson at home. [ via
http://www.obscurestore.com/
]
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Culture-Wars-R-Us:
# Poland OKs total
pornography ban - likely to be vetoed:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564713377-a81# China to execute deputy governor - scapegoat for
massive corruption:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564716503-9a5# POST-APARTHEID RAP: That's not Snoop Doggy Dogg you
hear thudding down the
streets of J'burg - it's Kwaito, So.Africa's
latest musical craze. Lyrics
written in Zulu, Xhosa, and tsotsi taal
(gangster slang) describe life in
the townships and the experiences
of the post-apartheid generation.
http://www.economist.co.uk/editorial/freeforall/current/index_mo9732.html# A POPULAR GHETTO? Has the music of Africa has come of
age in the West or
is it still the lure of the exotic that attracts?
Beauty or beastiness:
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/03/03/timartfes01001.html?999# FBI seizes teen-ager's computer - "coolio" denies
everything:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564699588-3c6# N.H. teen admits some computer hacking - denies DDos
attacks:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564714940-916_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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