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@ Tallest tales: http://members.xoom.com/0rpheus/hofc/other.htm#reco
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# Sunspots Could Wreak Havoc During The Next 18 Months. OTTAWA (CP) -- Save
those sighs of relief at having survived the Y2K bug, a new menace looms:
a surge in solar winds that could wreak havoc with pipelines, pagers and
power grids. No one is urging a rerun of Y2K hysteria, but the coming peak
in the sun's sunspot cycle is getting lots of attention in the scientific
world. Some have dubbed it the Year 2001 Problem. Others disembowel birds
and mutter curses: http://www.sightings.com/earthchanges/sunspots_e.htm
: Are you prepared for the next big disaster? And the one after that? After
that? And then? What's your favorite disaster scenario? Is it scheduled??
# SUPERFLU rages in US 'If this isn't an epidemic, I don't know what is':
http://www.cbs.com/now/story/0,1597,147023-311,00.shtml
# Experts say 20 percent of Netherlands to get flu this winter:
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20000107/aponline103436_000.htm
# Flu turns trucks into morgues - 'We can't stack bodies up in the corridor'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001851641145319&pg=/et/00/1/8/nhosp08.html
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# OFFICIAL 'MARS FLAG' UNFURLS IN SPACE. Now that the martian flag has flown
high in orbit, it should soon flutter from the "top" of Earth. The red,
green and blue banner flew its maiden voyage into space onboard the space
shuttle Discovery in late December. Soon, scientists plan to fly it at the
Mars Arctic Research Station (MARS); last week the Mars Society named a
primary contractor for the facility, to be based near the North Pole. I
pledge allegiance... http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/01/07/mars.flag/
: Was the MARS flag designed by Martians? If not, are they pissed? Would you
want some dirty aliens making a flag for YOUR planet? Would you be pissed??
# This Just In: Pleiades Potato Plot Proven!
http://www.space.com/space/space_potatoes_000105.html
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# SETI Upgrades ET Search. (Wired) The search for little green men will
get a boost next week when the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
(SETI) project releases SETI@Home 2.0, an overhaul to its screensaver
that scans radio signals from space for signs of alien life. ET call
collect: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,33506,00.html
: If you find any aliens, what would you do with them? What would they do to
you? Have you found any aliens lately? Have they found you? Do you have sex?
# 30 Years After Project Blue Book, Is it Time to Look Again? New scientific
call to reopen national UFO review: http://www.caus.org/pn010700.htm
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# GM-Silkworms Could Become Mini-Chemical Factories. PARIS (Reuters) French,
US and Japanese scientists say they have found a way to alter the genes of
the humble silkworm that may eventually make it into a miniature chemical
factory. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000104/sc/france_silk_1.html
: What chemicals would you like worms to make? If they make psychedelics,
would you eat them? Raw, cooked, or dipped in chocolate? With peppermint?
# Babies by design - Will mastering genetic disorders lead to 'master
race'? http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/01/04/designer.babies/index.html
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# Tibetan Leader Visits Dalai Lama. DHARMSALA, India (AP) A teen-age Tibetan
Buddhist leader recuperated today in the Dalai Lama's house after his
torturous trek across the Himalayas from China, a defection that surprised
Tibetan exiles and has embarrassed Beijing. Expect assassination attempts
soon: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000108/07/int-india-tibetan-leader
# CHINA STILL RUNS 1 LAMA. China's fight to win over Tibet's people suffered
a severe blow with the flight of the 17th Karmapa; Beijing now has but one
major Buddhist figure within its control: a 9-year-old boy. 4 years ago
the govt 'fixed' the selection of the 11th Panchen Lama, the 2nd-ranking
lama in Tibetan Buddhism. To dim the influence of the Dalai Lama, Tibet's
clergy were forced to snub his candidate and appoint another boy. 'Jiang's
Panchen': http://cnn.com/2000/ASIANOW/east/01/08/china.panchen.lama.ap/
: Will the Chinese ever subdue the Tibetans, or must they all be killed?
Will the Russians ever subdue the Chechens, or must they all be killed?
Will the Reptilioids ever subdue us humans, or must we all be killed?
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SkeptiMediBriefs - YOUR TURN to ask some questions:
# RADIOSURGERY TREATS EPILEPSY IN RATS. By targeting pinpoint beams of
radiation to specific brain areas, researchers say they have reduced
seizure activity in epileptic rats. The procedure, called stereotactic
radiosurgery, might someday become "a new or complementary surgical
treatment" for epilepsy in humans who do not respond to drug treatment.
http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=24452
# Mammograms May Not Matter. (Wired) The widely accepted use of
mammography to screen for breast cancer comes under fire in a
new study that labels the procedure next to useless.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,33496,00.html
# STUDIES SHED LIGHT ON HOW POLIOVIRUS INVADES CELLS. By constructing
a detailed 3-dimensional image of the poliovirus, two groups of
researchers have shed light on how the virus attacks and invades
cells, causing paralysis in some infected people.
http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=24548
# Pharmacies Dole Out Free 'Morning After' Pill. LONDON (Reuters) Pharmacies
in the NW English city of Manchester are issuing free 'morning after'
contraceptive pills in a bid to tackle the city's high teenage pregnancy
rates. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000108/05/science-britain-pill
# AIDS Overwhelms South Africa Hospitals. PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa
(AP) Doctors scribble notes into patients' folders while a young man
lies nearby on a gurney, dying from AIDS-related tuberculosis. His
abdomen convulses with gurgling gasps as he struggles to fill his
saturated lungs. http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000108/12/playing-god
@ Philosophic therapists are not doctors treating disease, they are thinkers
facing reality. Mental anguish may be more than just a matter of feelings.
http://www.britannica.com/bcom/original/article/0,5744,2773,00.html
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"U.N. stormtroopers're coming / The New World Order is here
With all their Jewish lawyers / And environmentalist queers
The black helicopters are flying / The people are all in a trance
The New World Order is coming / You'd better hang on to your pants"
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