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# Psychic line named for Paula Jones. BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) Paula Jones has
lent her name to a psychic hotline while she ponders a country singing car-
eer. She may want to stick to Patsy Cline. The gal whose lawsuit triggered
events that nearly toppled a president isn't enticing many to fork out money
to dial their destiny. "If this were a horse race, we'd be off to a slow
start." She contracted for a 90-day trial as a spokeswoman for the hot line.
If the calls start coming at $3.49 a minute Jones could extend her contract
for 5 years. See www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559606578-2be
: Does Paula Jones already know whether you'll call or not? Did her psychic
link inform her of the outcomes of her liasons and lawsuits? Was it right?
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# Mysterious circles keep cropping up. (BBC) 3 mysteries of the 80s remain:
Eddie The Eagle, Limahl's haircut, and crop circles. But the greatest of the
three is crop circles. Strange forces could be at play. Paranormal or fraud:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_347000/347644.stm
# Also: Are crop circles a hoax?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/talking_point/newsid_347000/347614.asp
# US billionaire funds crop circle research:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_347000/347439.stm
@ Links: Circlemakers: http://www.head-space.com/circlemakers/index.html
@ Lucy Pringle's page: http://cropcircleconnector.com/Lucy/lucyP.html
@ Crop Circle Connector: http://cropcircleconnector.com/
@ Crop Circle Hoaxing: http://indigo.ie/~dcd/hoax.htm
@ Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal:
http://www.csicop.org/
@ Heavenly Angelic Forms of Communication:
http://www.bogo.co.uk/etheric/home.html
@ Disinformation Counter Culture:
http://www.disinfo.com/cc/orgtron/cc_orgtron_crop.html
: If you were a superior alien race, you'd communicate with inferior races
by sculpting their vegetation, wouldn't you? What better was is there? Why?
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# Valley Visions. When the going gets weird, the weird end up in Colorado's
San Luis Valley. Wondrously depicted by self-appointed paranormal investiga-
tor and Crestone resident Chris O'Brien, the San Luis Valley - a breathtak-
ing expanse straddling southern Colorado, northern New Mexico - is plagued
by flying saucers, cow vandals, space guns, serial killers, spook lights,
ghost trains, coma healers, prairie dragons and even something called a
"bi-locating nun." http://www.metroactive.com/metro/valley-9919.html
: How many bi's can your nuns locate? Do you have UFOs, cow orkers, zapguns,
and other para/normal phenomena in your neighborhood? Want to tell us more?
Would we buy your story? Are the voices in your head good at narration? How?
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SkeptiShorts
# Net will be death of MI6. Former spy Richard Tomlinson, accused of naming
MI6 agents online, says the Internet makes the security service irrelevant.
No big loss: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_347000/347912.stm
# No environment damage in Yugoslavia. Despite Yugoslav claims that NATO's
bombardment was causing ecological catastrophe, the UN and environmental
groups have concluded that no significant pollution has yet been detected.
Try to see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559598717-0d7
@ The Return of Inequality. The great bulk of Americans are losing economic
& political power; the affluent are gaining both. This is not a recipe for
social comity: www.theatlantic.com/election/connection/ecbig/edsalleq.htm
# New moon discovered around Uranus. Astronomers have discovered the 18th
moon of Uranus from a 13-year-old picture. Keep those old Polaroids, eh?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_348000/348463.stm
# GM pollen 'can kill butterflies'. Pollen from one of the most successful
gene-modified crops in the US harms the caterpillars of Monarch butterflies.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_347000/347638.stm
# Close shave with asteroid. A large asteroid could miss the Earth by only
38,000 kilometres in 2027, according to new astronomical observations. Whew.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_347000/347764.stm
# Cow cure for royal madness. Cattle have given researchers a clue as to how
to develop a treatment for the incurable disease that made King George III
nutz. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_347000/347735.stm
# When is a school not a school? An online school in Australia is being
blocked by a local authority which says a school has to have classrooms.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/education/newsid_346000/346344.stm
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SkeptiLinks:
@ CONTINUITY OF CONSCIOUSNESS PROJECT: http://members.home.net/tcocp/
@ Top Secret Home Page: http://www.thevoid66.freeserve.co.uk/home.html
# Will Gnome Break Windows? Free operating system challenges MicroSoft:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_321000/321433.stm
# Net Bomb-Making Amendment Passes US Senate - don't even talk about it:
http://www.newsbytes.com/pubNews/130825.html
# 'Mummy' comes back on screen - 1990s style
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,100001935,00.html
# 3D camera revolutionises reconstructive surgery.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_347000/347160.stm
@ Remote life manipulation in surveillance systems:
http://members.aol.com/AYu5565448/index.htm
http://pages.prodigy.net/alanyu/index.htm
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for whiskey and the state closed off Highway 60 so they couldn't even pick
up the occasional possum - sometimes still warm and steaming in the cold
Georgia air - after the big trucks rumbled by. --David Willingham
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