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# THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH. The biggest thing to cross the sky since Hale-
Bopp appears in Europe and the Middle East for a scant three minutes. In
England, hype for Wednesday's total solar eclipse is out of control.
http://wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/culture/story/21196.html
TWO BILLION CAN ENJOY MIRACLE OF ECLIPSE:
@ EclipseCast.com -- Science news and images from the August 1999
total solar eclipse: http://www.eclipsecast.com/
@ NASA - Eclipse 99 LIVE BROADCAST! http://eclipse99.nasa.gov/
@ Exploratorium: SOLAR ECLIPSE: Stories From the Path of Totality -
LIVE! http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/index.html
# Eclipse watchers avoid Cornwall. MOUSEHOLE, UK (AP) Festivals and flights
have been canceled and many guesthouses and hotels still have vacancies on
what was supposed to be the hottest, hippest week of the year. Not even a
half of the million folks expected in Cornwall for the solar eclipse have
shown so far - with fears of cloudy weather, overcrowding, profiteering.
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560648325-cb4
# Also: Indian villagers face solar eclipse, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560648315-552
: Can you hardly wait for the whole friggin' eclipse thing to be over? Are
you bloody tired of all these eclipse stories? Can't I find anything better?
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# THE HIGH COST OF LIVING FOREVER. The problem with life extension research
isn't a lack of scientific interest. It's just that the people with the
money think it's all poppycock. Or that's what they want us to think...
http://wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/technology/story/21186.html
: Do you publicly dismiss longevity research whilst secretly funding same?
Do you want to keep it a secret? Who can/should/will live forever? Who else?
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# Angolan cops raid radio station. LUANDA, Angola (AP) - Police arrested the
director and two journalists for a Roman Catholic radio station in Angola,
the second raid in two days after the station aired an interview with a
rebel leader. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560651982-f64
: Does your church run broadcast media? Do you broadcast political stuff? Do
you clash with gov't? Have you been arrested? Should you be? Do your deities
insist that you broadcast? Do your deities support rebels? Are you haunted?
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# Israeli cops seal wall of holy site. JERUSALEM (AP) Israeli police sealed
an opening in the outer wall of the Al Aqsa Mosque compound before dawn in
a showdown with Muslim clerics over control of a site sacred to both Jews
and Muslims. Muslim leaders accused the Barak gov't of trying to provoke a
confrontation and warned of violent Muslim protests. Everybody yelled and
gestured. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560648745-dbf
: Do you fight over holy sites? Are your holiest sites exterior or interior,
real or virtual, earthly or heavenly or extraterrestrial, manmade or divine?
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# Indonesia religious clash kills 18. AMBON, Indonesia (AP) Christian and
Muslim mobs fought street battles in eastern Indonesia, killing at least
18 people and injuring about 120. Riot police shot and killed some people.
Mobs stabbed or beat others. The violence has been sparked by simmering
resentment between Christians and Muslims. Economic collapse doesn't help
either: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560650400-51a
: Does your belief system promote killing followers of other systems? Who do
you resent? Do you want to kill them? Do your deities tell you to kill? Do
your deities speak directly to you? Do the voices in your head relieve pain?
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# China claims success in sect battle. BEIJING (AP) China's state-controlled
media are proclaiming widespread success in a campaign to force members to
leave a banned meditation sect accused of opposing the govt. Officials say
that 96% of those practicing Falun Gong had already recanted, and that the
ruling Communist Party's crackdown on the sect has mainly involved obtain-
ing pledges from Falun Gong members to leave the sect, without any further
penalties. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560648205-397
: How do you crush a sect? Has your sect been crushed? When will Falun Gong
overthrow/absorb/invalidate Communism? What sects would you like to crush??
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# PLAN B FOR CYBER SPACE. With his proposed federal surveillance system
universally scorned, President Clinton trots out another cybercrime
prevention program. This time, he's talking task force. Byte the dust:
http://www.wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/politics/story/21191.html
# FILE STORAGE MATTER OF TRUST. I-Drive wants to host your personal files
so that others can read them from any browser. The company says it's not
liable if files are compromised, raising privacy concerns. Trust us...
http://wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/technology/story/21154.html
: Do you compromise personal files? Have your own files been compromised? Do
you plant false info in your files? Do you believe everything you read? Why?
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SkeptiLinks:
# Contamination checks at nuke plants - better late than never:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560649829-22a
# Starr says Lewinsky was immature, chides her for being a grrl:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560651992-dcd
# 1 in 4 employees angry at work - and I'm pretty pissed off myself:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560648485-9bc
@ Minnesota UFO club: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/minnufoparanormalresearch
@ Who is really behind alien abductions? http://eth.faithweb.com/alien1.html
@ Become one with the orbs. Please! http://www.orbsite.com/makehistory.htm
# U.S. school expulsions for guns down in recent years:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560652642-14b
# FBI touts online fingerprint plan - "We'll have everybody":
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560648984-3ad
# Dutch gov't legalizes mercy killing - suicidal rampage expected:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560653637-a9c
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