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@ Build-A-Cow: http://members.tripod.com/~spows/cow.html
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# 2 Scots Seek Amputations. FALKIRK, Scotland (AP) - Two psychologically
disturbed men each had a healthy leg amputated at their request, even
though nothing was physically wrong with them. They suffer from a psycho-
logical condition called body dysmorphic disorder, in which patients
focus on a perceived imperfection that they find overwhelming; many feel
they cannot go on living unless their imperfection is removed.
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563769127-a47
: Are you imperfect? How is your head? Should it be removed? Would you like
a new one transplanted on? How about an extra? Would you like your old head
removed, replaced with 2 or 3 good ones? Do the voices in your head insist?
# How-to Suicide Video on Cable - Final Exit Author Finds 'Hunger' for Info:
http://apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/01/31/suicide0131_01.html
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# New Mars meteorite found. (BBC) A new meteorite from Mars has been found,
only the 14th ever discovered. Send out more searchbots immediately!!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_625000/625982.stm
@ Links - The Los Angeles meteorite: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/snc/la.html
@ L.A. Meteorite: http://members.tripod.com/marzmeteorite/la/losangel.htm
# Also - Water found in meteorite:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_431000/431496.stm
# Woman finds space fireball debris:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_622000/622499.stm
# Robot hunts down meteorite:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_618000/618365.stm
: Did you find any meteorites lately? Did they contain biological materials?
Are aliens seeding Earth with their spores? How long until they take over??
Should all meteor(ite)s be destroyed as a precaution? Are you willing? How?
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# U.S. nuns mark anniversary of vows. JERICHO, West Bank (AP) - Two American
nuns holed up for two weeks to protest the takeover of a Russian Orthodox
monastery marked the first anniversary of taking their vows on Monday,
with fellow sisters handing them white flowers through the compound gate.
Married to Jesus, the sex is great but the chores can be tedious - see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563771788-a85
# Muslims stone church. YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) Muslim protesters called
for a holy war & stoned a church in the tourist city of Yogyakarta, after
demanding the govt put a stop to sectarian violence in eastern Indonesia.
More than 2,000 have died in the last year of violence between Christians
and Muslims. The violence comes five days after a small bomb rocked a city
mosque frequented by the town's revered ruler, Sultan Hamengku Buwono X.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563744629-d2d
: What's your favorite church? Should it be occupied, stoned, sealed, burnt,
painted, scrubbed? How d'ya feel about churches of other religions? Are they
the dens of demons? D'ya like demons? Should demons be encouraged? In what?
@ Hagiography - Saints' Lives: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook3.html
@ Islamic History: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/islam/islamsbook.html
@ Jewish History: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/jewish/jewishsbook.html
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# No reliable test for GM-free food. (BBC) Science must play a leading role
in restoring public confidence on food safety, says the UK Govt Chemist,
but there are no tests which can tell if a food is free of modified DNA.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_620000/620728.stm
# France reports mad cow disease case. PARIS (AP) - A new case of mad cow
disease has been detected in northwestern France, the 4th in the country
since the start of the year. The entire herd was killed as a precaution.
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563769268-26d
# Europe ponders total US meat ban. The European Union is considering a
ban on imports of all US meat over fears of hormone contamination.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_622000/622509.stm
: What's your favorite food biotechnology? Do hormones help you grow up big
and strong? Do you like prions as protein supplements? How much GM food is
enough? Would you rather ingest raw veggies, raw meat, raw energy, rah rah?
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# Toward a Wireless Existence. A new combine heralds the coming of a truly
wireless Internet: http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,34002,00.html
And: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_625000/625682.stm
# TI Chief: 'PCs Are History'. It's all wireless now; the computer will soon
be replaced as the mainstream appliance of choice; or so he sez. And game
appliances too? http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,33993,00.html
# Filling Gamers' Need for Speed. New graphics cards, using faster double
date rate memory, could have combatants quaking in their boots. Death
match au-go-go: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,33980,00.html
# Gamemakers Look to Win Online. Japan's leading videogame firms team with
telecom providers for Net gaming. Making a network play with their latest
consoles: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,33998,00.html
: Are you wired, wireless, game, gameless, hopeful, hopeless? Do you prefer
to compute with systems, appliances, consoles, implants, fantasies? Do games
drive you onward? Are you but a pawn in some controller's game? What else??
@ The Web Bug FAQ: http://www.tiac.net/users/smiths/privacy/wbfaq.htm
@ No Such Thing As Info Design: http://jefraskin.com/no_info_design.html
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# Navajos face eviction. BIG MOUNTAIN, Ariz. (AP) The feud has festered for
centuries. Lawsuits filed, agreements worked out, deadlines set & ignored.
And still the battle rages between Hopi and Navajo Indians over a desolate
piece of earth both consider their own. Tuesday marks a turning point in
the dispute, the day the govt can begin eviction proceedings against about
a dozen Navajo families who refuse to leave the land or sign a lease with
the Hopis to allow them to stay. To a Navajo elder considered a trespasser
on the pastures she calls home, it is a day of dread. To a Hopi rancher
harassed for grazing cattle on land legally his, it is a day of hope but
also skepticism. To their tribal leaders, it is a day that could finally
mark the beginning of the end to a dispute that has divided a place & its
peoples. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563771433-5e7
: Have you evicted any Indians lately? Do latecomer Navajos deserve historic
Hopi land? Do all population moves involve conquest? Have you conquered any-
one lately? When ETs conquer Earth, who will you sue? In whose courts? Eh?
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"Don't worry, be Hopi" --anon
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