-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990316a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for merit, accuracy or meaning. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** HIV-killing proteins found in tears. WASHINGTON (AP) - Tears, saliva and the urine of pregnant women all contain proteins that are potent killers of HIV, the virus causing AIDS. Scientists isolated a protein, called lysozyme, and found that it was able to kill the AIDS virus quickly in test-tube exp- eriments. Lysozyme could become an important therapeutic drug against HIV because it is a natural compound that the body routinely makes. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558818398-d41 : Will new-age shamans adopt the technique of having communities cry over HIV sufferers, or spit on them, or just have pregnant women piss on them? Can you devise any other kinky naturopathic remedies? Are they entertaining? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Experts want to keep smallpox stock. WASHINGTON (AP) - Smallpox has been eradicated worldwide, but U.S. experts say lab specimens of the virus should be preserved to make vaccines in case the deadly disease is ever used as a bioterrorist weapon. Smallpox cursed humanity with disease, death and disf- igurement for more than 1,000 years but was wiped out as a naturally occur- ring disease in 1980 after a worldwide inoculation effort. The World Health Organization recommended destroying two small caches of specimens believed to remain, one in Russia, the other in the U.S. But bioterrorism experts have said recently they believe the virus has been distributed to other spots in Russia, perhaps in places with less effective security controls. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558817937-66f and www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/march99/smallpox15.htm : What endangered disease organisms would you like to preserve? What would you do with them? Will the ET aliens give us more when/if we run out? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Y2K fix may only last a generation. WASHINGTON (AP) - The most common technique used to fix computers vulnerable to Year 2000 failures is only a short-term remedy, and even advocates of the method acknowledge it will require other expensive repairs or replacements within a generation. The temporary fix, using a sophisticated twist of logic to fool computers, is highly controversial among insiders because it's intended to work for only a few decades - typically 30 years. Computers already fixed with the technique are "little ticking time bombs waiting to go off." The US gov't and industry analysts say the method is being used to patch 80% of computers worldwide. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558818408-a36 *** Also: Poll results on Y2K attitudes, see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558817138-3d9 > THE Y2K RIPPLE EFFECT - Y2K problems flow downhill: http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9903/15/rippley2k.idg/index.html > PLANNING BEYOND Y2K DISRUPTIONS - Post-Y2K plans important: http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9903/15/beyondy2k.ent.idg/index.html : How long can Armageddon be postponed? Is this a problem, a challenge, an opportunity? Will a global net culture inevitably succumb to fatal glitches? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Indians buying back their heritage. MONROE, Conn. (AP) - Newly moneyed Indian tribes, reveling in the riches from casinos and other ventures, are bidding top dollar for artifacts from the American past - leaving poorer tribes at a disadvantage in buying back their heritage. Wealthy tribes across the US are increasingly investing in impressive new museums. They need artifacts to display in those museums, and some can now pay almost any price. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558817462-3d0 : How much would you pay to reclaim and display your culture, your heritage, your belief system? Could you be tricked into buying fakes? Is your heritage really worth anything? Will such be meaningful when humanity is a hive-mind? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Russians don't want a Catholic church in Siberia. (BBC) Religious and political groups in Russia have called for a ban on plans to build a Roman Catholic church in Siberia. About 20 religious, political and civic groups appealed to the authorities of the Siberian Altai region to pass legislation to prevent the building of the church on the banks of Lake Teletskoye. They also demanded a ban on what they called nontraditional religious propaganda among the mainly Russian Orthodox or Buddhist inhabitants of the region. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_297000/297137.stm : Is your culture/nation/doctrine/language so strong and vibrant that laws are needed to protect it? Should belief-systems compete freely? Can they? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: @ The UN Plan for Your Mental Health: http://www.crossroad.to/text/articles/mh2-99.html @ International Movement for the Ban of Radiofrequency Weapons Controlling Human Minds: http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Campus/2289/webpage.htm @ The Third Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Beijing, China: http://ain2.ai.csse.yamaguchi-u.ac.jp/pakdd99 @ ELF [Extremely Low Frequency] Radiomagnetic Radiation Generation using HAARP: http://w3.nrl.navy.mil/projects/haarp/elfhrp.html @ HIGH FREQUENCY ACTIVE AURORAL RESEARCH PROGRAM (H.A.A.R.P.): http://w3.nrl.navy.mil/projects/haarp/index.html @ More concentration camps [why aren't we all prisoners yet?] http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Lagoon/1780/concentration.html http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Lagoon/1780/camp2.html http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Lagoon/1780/camp3.html http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/Lagoon/1780/armydoc.html @ "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" A Forgery Touted by Idiots http://expage.com/page/lightmiester @ For good educational information on "The Protocols" try these sites: http://www.adl.org/special_reports/protocols/protocols_condemnation.html http://www.igc.apc.org/ddickerson/protocols.html http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi?documents/protocols/protocols.zion http://www.haverford.edu/relg/mcguire/REL209b.html @ Your One Stop Privacy Shop: http://www.ultimate-anonymity.com/ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "The reflection of the moon poured across the water like spilled milk across a black velvet painting of Elvis recently acquired in Tijuana and caused the sky above to luminesce steely gray like radioactive zombie skin and light the uncurtained bedroom where Cynthia slept, unaware that Lyle crouched at the side of her massive four-poster plotting how he would have his way with her without disturbing her REM pattern." --Dean M. 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