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@ Planets: Unknown & Known: http://caus.org/pn102099.htm
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# Neo-Pagan Movement Is Bewitching To Many. (NYTimes) Encouraged by federal
court rulings recognizing witchcraft as a legal religion, an increasing
number of books on the subject, and the continuing cultural concern for
the environment, Wicca - as contemporary witchcraft is often called - has
been growing in the United States and abroad. It is a major element in a
growing "neo-pagan" movement whose members regard nature itself as charged
with divinity. http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,125012725,00.html
: Are you neo/paleo pagan? Is environmentalism your religion? When humanity
moves into space, will you stay behind? Will we miss you? Will you miss us?
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# Russia power to be manual on Y2K. MOSCOW (AP) Russia's electric monopoly
will shift its huge grid to manual control Dec. 31 to ensure it avoids
millennium bug outages. They are 95% ready for the date flip-over. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561912604-a5e
# Lingerie-Maker Shows 'Millennium Bra.' TOKYO (Reuters) A German lingerie
maker unveiled a 24-carat, diamond-studded "Millennium Bra" in what it
dubbed an effort to bring the timeless beauty of ancient Egypt to the
dawn of the new age. http://news.excite.com/news/r/991104/07/odd-bra
: Are you prepared for Y2K? Do you have ancient Egyptian diamonds in your
bra? Are you manually controlled? Have you considered all the risks? How?
# Why Risky Decisions May Be Hard For Elderly. LONDON (Reuters) Elderly
people may be easy prey for confidence tricksters and fraudulent
advertising because age-related damage to their brains impairs their
judgement: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991104/05/science-aging-risk
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Art Bell: Crop Circles: http://www.artbell.com/circles.html
Art of Crop Circles: http://www.engl.virginia.edu/~enwr1013/Tim/tmh7m2.html
British Crop Circles: http://members.tripod.com/~crop_circle/
Busty Taylor Crop Circles: http://www.aviation-uk.com/cropper/98busty2.htm
Circlemakers - England's crop circle makers: http://www.circlemakers.org/
Crop Circle Connector: http://cropcircleconnector.com/anasazi/connect.html
Crop Circle Reports: http://www.wavefront.com/~jhenry/cropc.htm
Crop Circles: http://indigo.ie/~dcd/frame.htm
Crop Circles Explorer: http://www.qac.com.au/circle1.htm
Crop Circles: Heavenly Angelic Forms of Communication - from the teachings
of Buddha Maitreya: http://www.bogo.co.uk/etheric/home.html
Finland's Center of Circles Info: http://martian.webjump.com/fcci
Satellite Photo of Marree Man: http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Bay/3925
UFO, Bigfoot & Crop Circles Museum: http://www.crossfields.com/~ufomus/
Usenet - alt.paranormal.crop-circles: news:alt.paranormal.crop-circles
: What's your favorite crop-circle? What does it indicate? Are you sure?
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# New high global temperatures forecast. LONDON (UPI) Global temperatures
will rise far higher than previously predicted, British researchers said
hotly: http://news.excite.com/news/u/991104/11/science-globalwarming
# Frankencorn safe for some monarchs. ROSEMONT, Ill.(AP) Genetically altered
corn may not pose as great a threat to monarch butterflies as previously
thought. But current research on the corn's toxicity is not yet extensive
enough to determine any conclusive impact on monarchs, regents, dauphins -
see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561906389-332
# Superbug death toll rises. (BBC) Hong Kong's medical authorities are on
the alert for further cases involving an antibiotic-resistant "superbug"
which has now killed four in the former colony. Are they all doomed?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_504000/504599.stm
: What's your favorite environmental/populational threat? Have you put any
bioemes at risk lately? Which lifeforms would you most like to be extinct?
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# Mad Deer Disease: Can Venison Kill You? A fatal brain disease is spreading
in deer & elk -- and hunters are dying from a very similar illness. The
deer/elk disease is called Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), closely related
to Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), which is what killed the hunters. Both
CJD and CWD are classified as "transmissible spongiform encephalopathies"
(TSE) and are related to bovine spongiform chronic encephalopathy (BSE),
dubbed "Mad Cow Disease." http://www.sightings.com/health3/venisons.htm
: Do you eat red meat? Has your brain turned spongy yet? Was it already
spongy? Has anyone devoured your flesh? Have their brains gone bad yet?
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# Tibetan protesters said fired upon. BEIJING (AP) - Chinese police fired on
Tibetan protesters demanding the release of 3 monks arrested on suspicion
of having contacts with the Dalai Lama's exiled government. About 3,000
Tibetans staged the Oct.31 protest in Garze, a town in a Tibetan-inhabited
region of the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan. At least 10 were
busted: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561921074-43d
# Banned sect attracted lost souls. BEIJING (AP) - China's top religious
affairs official conceded that rapid and, for some, disorientating changes
brought about by the government's economic reforms have provided fertile
ground for groups like Falun Gong. In hindsight, the government should
have acted earlier to crush the spiritual movement. Get'em while they're
hot: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561918057-02d
: Does your sect exploit the moral/spiritual bankruptsy of secular society?
Is your sect bankrupt in any way itself? Should you be crushed? Messily??
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# SNOWBALL EARTH. Forget the ice ages you've read about. Hundreds of
millions of years ago, the planet was one big frozen wasteland. But
if the big chill had never happened, would any of us be here today?
http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19991106/snowballea.html
# 'End Of The World' Prophecy Losers From 1701-1970:
http://zeus.ia.net/~criskity/end2.htm
: Will The End Of The World come with a bang, a whimper, a 'brrr', an 'ahh',
a fart, a chord, a whooosh, or some other sound? When? Are you listening??
# The Rare Glitch Project: The legendary search for a stable version of
Windows. (IDG) In October 1999, three student filmmakers disappeared
in a building in Redmond, Wash., while shooting a documentary. A week
later, their footage was found. What follows is an edited transcript
of that footage. Fortunately, I was able to cut the transcript, which
was 385 pages, down to a half page by removing the profanity.
http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9911/03/rare.glitch.project.idg/
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