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: Passages starting with : are editorial comments to provoke discussion.
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# Java Addiction�s in the Genes. (ABC) If your mom downs five cups of coffee
a day, chances are pretty good that you do, too. That yen for caffeine may
be as natural as blue eyes or brown hair. Addicted by nature not nurture -
see http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/InYourHead/allinyourhead.html
: Does your implant function better when you're caffeinated, alcoholized,
narcotized, barbituated, cocainized, hypnotized, televised, ostracized?
# DOCTORS RECOMMEND: EXERCISE FOR YOUR BRAIN. Keeping your brain stimulated
prevents aging. Researchers also find that the better educated you are, the
more you tend to use your brain in later life. Being a couch potato is con-
tra-indicated. www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=9195
: Is your brain adequately stimulated? Does your implant help? How much?
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# The True Agenda? Global Governance! www.anxietycenter.com/weatherscam.htm
# Living the Good Life... with Prozac. Drugged and functional - see
http://www.irish-times.com/irish-times/paper/1999/0130/fea5.html
# SHANGRI-LA LA LAND - Prisoners of Shangri-la: Tibetan Buddhism and
the West. See http://www.linguafranca.com/br/9804/spence.html
# The World Gets in Touch with Its Inner American. (MJN) Globalization was
supposed to have give-and-take. But free market capitalism and high-tech
communications have, for better or worse, turned the world on to just one
culture -- ours. www.mojones.com/mother_jones/JF99/americanization.html
: How many cultures does Earth need? Will globalism fragment? Is going off-
world the best way to ensure cultural diversity? What'll your world be like?
What control mechanisms will be needed? What fantasies will be engendered?
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*** Clinton urges prayers for peace. WASHINGTON - Pres. Clinton, at a prayer
breakfast with Congressmembers and other prominent figures, urged leaders to
put aside grievances and seek real reconciliation. Clinton said that often
in the past, going back to the Crusades and the Old Testament, people turned
to God to help them in war and conflict. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558327679-1ec
: If millions of Britons pray for their monarch daily, why don't royals live
forever? If millions of Judeo/Xian/Muslims pray for peace, why do they war?
Which god(s) should one pray to? There are so many, eh? Who's on first? Why?
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# ORGANIZED MEDICINE VS. FAITH HEALING: WHO PAYS? Christian Scientists and
pediatricians are split over how children should be cared for. Doctors are
challenging little known federal laws that provide $7 to $8 million in
government funding to Christian Scientist "religious nonmedical healthcare
institutions." The pediatricians say that conventional medical advice is
ignored - at the expense of taxpayers' money as well as children's lives.
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=9204
: Does faith-healing adequately weed-out children of the credulous? Why not?
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*** Italy votes down sperm donations. ROME (AP) Italy's lower house voted to
ban the use of donated sperm - a move that overturns a key provision of a
proposed bill on fertility treatments. Parties of strong Catholic tradition
all indicated Wednesday they would vote against the provision that would
have allowed married couples to turn to sperm banks. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558326744-b02
: Does your religion impede your sexual/reproductive choices? Would you
change your religion/country to effect your sexual/reproductive choices?
# Man Held For Performing Castrations. HUNTINGTON, Ind. (Reuters) - An
Indiana man was being detained Thursday on $50,000 bond for allegedly
performing "the most unkindest cut of all" -- surgical castrations on at
least five men. http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990204/17/odd-castration
: Does your religious/philosophical system promote neutering? If so, how
does your sect gain adherents, since not many are born into it? Kidnaps?
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*** Islamic law adopted in Chechnya. GROZNY, Russia (AP) Thousands of oppos-
ition supporters celebrated in Chechnya after the breakaway republic's pres-
ident bowed to their demands and ordered the adoption of Islamic law. But
1,500 opposition leaders and representatives meeting in a stadium in Grozny
called for more concessions, including the abolition of Chechnya's parlia-
ment and the presidency. Outside the stadium where the congress took place,
an estimated 7,000 people, mostly armed with rifles and clad in military
fatigues, also celebrated the new changes. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558324384-91b
: Must Islamic law be imposed at gunpoint? Must any law? Does your religion
have armed supporters? Are the best-armed religions the best religions? Why?
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Earth Changes ShortTakes:
# Volcano Stirs Near Mexico City:
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/Reuters19990203_2980.html
# Remote Villagers Poisoned:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/mercury990203.html
# Anthrax Threats Received In Two Georgia Cities:
http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990204/17/news-anthrax
# AIDS Virus Gets Tougher As Drug Resistance Seen:
http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990204/13/news-aidsresistance
# Pigeons Cause Uproar in Venice:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/pigeons_venice990203.html
# Fighting the Alien Invaders:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/invaders990203.html
# Fire ants halt bee trucker's trek:
http://nt.excite.com/news/u/990204/16/news-anttruck
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@ "Starlite" Mystery: http://www.charm.net/~dmg/mysteries/mystery1.html
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