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@ National Atlas of the United States: http://www.nationalatlas.gov/
@ The Mourning Muse: http://members.aol.com/anissamoon/muse.html
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# Las Vegas honors mag with "Soldier of Fortune Day". The magazine's founder
was thrilled to be honored. "I was surprised and gratified that the mayor
& the city of Las Vegas had the intestinal fortitude to be so politically
incorrect," he said. "Usually we end up battling govt'l entities rather
than receiving their accolades. This is truly amazing and gratifying."
http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/1999/Sep-23-Thu-1999/news/12008881.html
@ Visit the Soldier of Fortune magazine Website: http://www.sofmag.com/
: Do you honor/worship/practice mercenary militarism? Are you mercenary? Are
you paid to kill? Would you kill anyway? Is killing gratifying, profitable?
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# Spanish find centuries-old ice. MADRID (AP) - Scientists studying global
climate changes say they've made a startling find - centuries-old ice in
sunny south Spain. Permafrost in the Sierra Nevada peaks of Andalusia:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561291589-054
# Frosty Mars 'mountain' poses mystery. (CNN) -- A patch of frost near Mars
south polar cap caught the eye of an Ohio astronomer 150 years ago staring
through a telescope at the red planet. Developers now plan an extensive
ski resort complex: http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9909/22/mars.mountains/
: Would you rather ski the Alps, Mars, Spain, Europa? What's your fave frost
patch? Will global warming destroy all permafrost on Earth? Do ETs want it?
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# China to try banned sect publishers. BEIJING (AP) China plans to prosecute
at least 10 publishers of books/materials on an outlawed meditation group
before putting leading members of the popular sect on trial. The 10 have
been charged with illegal business & selling illegal publications. China
passed new laws to tighten control over all forms of qigong - the widely
practiced slow-motion exercises on which the Falun Gong movement is partly
based. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561291270-f45
: Has your sect been banned lately? Have you banned any sects? Is your sect
in a death-struggle? Are slo-motion exercises subversive, revolutionary? Eh?
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@ THE ANSWER: Hypothesis of a Theory of Everything. The universe, from the
smallest to largest unit, is a quantum probability based fractal illusion.
All matter exists in 3-dimensional space, both internal & external. Any
grouping can be considered a fractal space. It is both real & imaginary
at the same time acting according to Euler's equation: {e^i x pi}+1=0
More useful in this instance is the general form:
e^ix = -1=cos x + i sin x = -tan 45 deg
which allows use of a variable where Pi, a constant, is used in the orig-
inal. The key to understanding multi-dimensional space time is the reali-
zation that Pi is a variable! Pi as we know it is the lock on 3D space.
Figure it out: http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~uther/sprg/letter16.htm
: Why isn't a hypersphere with a radius of the square root of negative one
included in these calculations? Doesn't its 6D projection subsume 3D space?
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# Native Americans tour Israel gov't. JERUSALEM (AP) A delegation of Native
Americans, some wearing feathered headdresses and others carrying drums,
toured the Israeli parliament. Tribal leaders greeted Speaker Avraham Burg
with a drum salute, accompanied by singing and dancing. Burg tried on a
gift headdress & pounded a drum. Trying to keep unruly Israeli legislators
in line: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561292758-d23
: Are the Mormons right, that Native Americans are really the Lost Tribes of
Israel? Does this alliance constitute an Israeli 5th column in the US? Will
the Amerind/Hebrew axis strike from within? Are you ready for this perfidy?
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# UFO Roundup. V-SHAPED UFO WATCHED BY HUNDREDS IN MEXICO - UFOs SPOTTED
TWICE IN WISCONSIN - THREE UFOs SIGHTED NEAR MUNISING, MICHIGAN - LARGE
DAYLIGHT SAUCER SEEN IN OZARK, MISSOURI - WOMAN SEES A UFO IN DANDRIDGE,
TENNESSEE - SPORTSFISHERMEN SEE UFO IN PANAMA - METALLIC SPHERE UFO
SIGHTED IN SOUTH WALES - CROP CIRCLES POP UP IN SASKATCHEWAN - Y2K:
WISCONSIN READIES STATE COMMAND POST - 1977: THE HUDSON SAILS AGAIN!
http://ufoinfo.com/roundup/v04/rnd04_22.html
: Have you rounded up any UFOs lately? Have you sprayed RoundUp(TM) on any
UFOs lately? Did the occupants object, squirm, gag, die? Do crop circles pop
up in your neighborhood regularly? Do they make a popping sound? Why not?
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# Mexico ex-prosecutor's death assured - not Elvis. MEXICO CITY (AP) 6 days
after Mario Ruiz Massieu's body was found in his New Jersey home, Mexican
& US flacks wanted to make one thing clear: the indicted former drug cop
really, truly was dead. "There is no doubt," U.S. ambassador Jeff Davidow
told reporters. "This isn't Elvis Presley living someplace." The leader of
Mexico's Zaptista rebels, Subcommandante Marcos, cast doubt on the death -
see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561280017-84d
: Are you sure Massieu & Elvis are really dead? Was the real Paul McCartney
Elvis' lover and did he suicide in 1973? Are alleged suicides really faked?
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SkeptiBriefs:
# Dragging defendant to die - white supremacist gets no mercy:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561294754-44b
# Bono, Geldof, Quincy Jones seek Pope's help - JP2 wants their souls:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561294682-9e3
# Revival of extreme right-wing group conjures fears of neo-fascism
in Italy: http://www.jta.org/sep99/22-bocc.htm
# Illicit liquor kills 23 in Kenya - Methanol disguised as whiskey:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561290537-f93
# Argentina politicos denounce desecration at Jewish cemetery
http://www.jta.org/sep99/21-ceme.htm
# Yemen: Bomber accidentally kills self. Oops.
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561291050-aab
# Malaysia installs new king - Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah rules:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561290892-f6c
@ A calculator-in-the-URL hack: http://$urlcalc(help).x42.com/
@ Definitive overview of hi-speed Net access? (Salon):
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/09/23/cable_dsl/print.html
@ FAQ on pattern languages: http://g.oswego.edu/dl/pd-FAQ/pd-FAQ.html
@ Online Ivan Illich etexts: http://www.la.psu.edu/philo/illich/books.html
@ Top twelve imminent interactive toys (ToysRUs):
http://news.excite.com/news/bw/990921/ny-toy-wishes?printstory=1
@ Pregnancy turns her on: http://www.nervemag.com/Noll/nineAndAHalf/
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