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> 'CLOSER TO GOD'. MOUNT GRAHAM, Arizona (CNN) 10,000 feet above the Arizona
desert, a windswept observatory aims its powerful telescope to the heavens -
an appropriate direction, as this observatory is run by the Vatican. Science
and passion - http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9901/26/pope.astronomers/index.html
> NASA FOOTAGE SHOWS ASTEROID IN MOTION. (CNN) Humanity will have to wait at
least another year to see the first closeup views of an asteroid. But in the
meantime, NASA has released some unprecedented footage of one of the myster-
ious space rocks as it rotates slowly in the solitude of space. Craters and
pits visible - http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9901/26/eros.movie/index.html
: DO church telescopes resolve angels, demons, heavenly choirs, the pearly
gates; or just more of the same old dust and debris, dark and glowing? Why?
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*** Arkansas might OK concealed guns in church. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) Holy
heat. There could be a gun under that choir robe or churchgoer's jacket. A
proposed law would let people with concealed-gun permits bear their arms in
church. Constituents want the privilege because sometimes they must go from
work to weeknight church services and cannot get home to drop off their
guns. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558207165-327
# Villagers Plan Sex Festival for Old Folks. HELSINKI, Finland (Reuters) -
A Finnish village whose name means "Spawning Lake" plans to hold a love
fest for senior citizens this summer to coincide with United Nations'
Year for the Aged. http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990126/17/odd-sex
: Will a geriatric sex fest work? Will guns in church be helpful? Which
best exemplifies the Illuminatus conspiracy to dominate humanity? Why?
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*** Pope compares abortion to slavery. ST. LOUIS (AP) Pope John Paul II paid
a visit to America's heartland, where he decried teen suicide and hopeless-
ness and likened the legal battle over abortion and euthanasia to the clash
over slavery on the eve of the Civil War. "There is something terribly wrong
when so many people are overcome by hopelessness to the point of taking
their own lives," the pope said at a youth rally at the Kiel Center. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558212953-0b2
# How Many Times Can You Commit Suicide? ZAGREB (Reuters) - A middle-aged
Croatian man who stabbed himself with a butcher's knife, set his apartment
on fire and then jumped out of a first-floor window, survived with minor
injuries, Jutarnji List newspaper reported. Josip Tusek, 55, had complained
he had difficulty breathing but doctors apparently refused to operate on
him. He then said he would perform the operation himself, his neighbors
said. He suffered only a cut to his stomach and a broken leg after his
suicide bids Saturday. http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990126/10/odd-suicide
: Should Tusek have talked to the pope about hopelessness? Several times?
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# Genetic engineering Takes Its Place At The Dinner Table. ANAHEIM, Calif.
By look and taste, it's said to be indistinguishable from conventional
crops. "Logistically, this creates a nightmare for ingredient suppliers."
http://www.sacbee.com/news/news/local20_19990126.html
*** FDA to restrict animal antibiotics. WASHINGTON (AP) The US gov't plans
to set limits on antibiotics for animals, to address concerns that on-the-
farm medication creates drug-resistant germs that infect the meat people
eat. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558209911-a6a
: Would you eat anything that's more highly evolved than you are? Why not?
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# CONSCIOUSNESS EXPLAINED: A materialist examination of human consciousness.
Many scientists have developed a polemic against the encroachments of the
religious right on the scientific method and its premise, philosophical
materialism. These controversies, not surprisingly, revolve largely around
the most basic of questions: the relationship between matter and thought.
Mind stuff - http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/jan1999/mind-j20.shtml
: Is thought more or less 'real' than matter? Are they equal but different?
Which came first, the concept or the quark? How could you tell? Do you care?
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*** Greek Orthodox leader denies ouster, in severe feud within U.S. Greek
Orthodoxy. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558211089-462
# Vatican issues new exorcism rules. (BBC) The Vatican has published updated
rules on exorcism and for the first time it urges exorcists to take medical
advice where needed. Perhaps psychiatrists should be consulted too - see
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/newsid_263000/263604.stm
: Should religious dissidents be exorcised? Does your church have exorcism
rituals? Does it need any? Do political organizations need exorcism too?
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# British Museum exhibit provokes controversy over Celtic history. "More
and more archaeologists are concluding that the Ancient Celts, as usually
conceived, never really existed." Revisionism, rethinking, ethnic cleansing
or genocide - see http://www.wsws.org/news/1998/oct1998/celt-o20.shtml
: Are your ancestors real, anthropological artifacts, or abducted by ETs?
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Conspiracies-R-Us:
# 10 billion for "anti-terrorism" plan: Clinton proposes huge police
buildup. http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/jan1999/terr-j26.shtml
# Summit-on-ice saves Antarctic. (BBC) An international conference held
for the first time in Antarctica has pledged to ensure that the continent
remains the world's last great wilderness. But preserved for whom? See
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/newsid_263000/263753.stm
# The new "White Australia" Policy #3 - Immigration: discrimination by
race and wealth: http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/jan1999/imm3-j26.shtml
# Spy secrets revealed. British intelligence has released espionage files
dating from World Wars I and II - "too old to be a security risk." See
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/special_report/1999/01/99/wartime_spies/new
sid_263000/263468.stm
- Spaniard behind the D-day landings. - Airborne threat of Nazi pigeons.
- MI5: Interrogation, but 'no violence' - Mata Hari gave MI5 the slip.
# The impeachment of President Clinton - Is America drifting towards civil
war? http://www.wsws.org/news/1998/dec1998/imp-d21.shtml
# Clinton silent on the impeachment conspiracy - why?
http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/jan1999/clin-j19.shtml
# Pope condemns lies. (BBC) Just hours after meeting President Clinton at
the start of his US visit, the Pope has attacked dishonesty and infidelity.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_262000/262933.stm
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