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# Outcry Ends 'Jesus Was Vegetarian' Billboard. AMARILLO, Texas (Reuters) -
A billboard in beef-raising West Texas depicting Jesus Christ as a vegetar-
ian was removed by a local ad agency after public protests. The sign, which
stated "Jesus was a vegetarian" and featured a large portrait of Christ, was
erected on the side of a major highway in Amarillo and provoked a stream of
angry responses. http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990322/07/odd-billboard
: Would Jesus prefer a Big Mac, Whopper or FishWich? Does He like His KFC
chicken Original, Crispy or Spicy? Is tofu damnable? How about soyburgers?
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*** Violence marks Kurdish New Year. DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (AP) Violence and a
police crackdown marked the Kurdish New Year in Turkey Sunday, with police
arresting 1,000 people across the country and putting the Kurdish-dominated
southeast under a virtual state of siege. The Kurdish New Year traditionally
occasioned rioting that has killed dozens in past years in the southeast.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558890523-81c
: Would you rather celebrate the Western, Chinese, Kurdish, Jewish, Moslem,
Hopi, Mayan, Fiscal or Reptilioid New Years? Which is the best excuse for
violence? Against whom? Is every calendar a fresh opportunity for mayhem?
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# CJD's deadly switch revealed - Rogue proteins form fatal clumps in brain.
(BBC) The critical moment when Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease or BSE strikes the
brain has been captured in a test tube for the first time. The breakthrough
is a major step forward for the future development of new diagnostic tests
and possibly even effective treatments of the fatal diseases. Eat more mad
cows - http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_298000/298855.stm
@ Links: BSE background:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/background_briefings/bse/default.htm
@ Creutzfeld-Jakob disease surveillance unit: http://www.cjd.ed.ac.uk/
: Would a cure for mad-cow disease make the world safe for carnivores again?
Has fear of CJD/BSE turned you vegetarian? Would you rather have CJD, alien
implants, CIA mind-control waves, a prefrontal lobotomy, demonic possession?
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*** New probe scrutinizes Mars. (AP) - Two decades after the twin Viking
orbiters wowed scientists with images of Mars' gargantuan volcanoes and
canyons, a new robotic envoy is ready to lift the veil on the red planet's
mysterious past. Following a one-year delay, NASA's Mars Global Surveyor
began mapping the dusty, frozen planet this month with a camera keen enough
to detect objects the size of a Volkswagen beetle. Surveyor will search for
prime landing sites for future landers and may explain what turned Mars'
once-warm, water-harboring surface into a frigid, bone-dry realm of shifting
dunes. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558890474-711
: Have all the alien bases been destroyed in the last year? How far does the
coverup extend? How many VWs will be seen on Mars? What would YOU look for?
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# When blue is green. (BBC) A study of a tribe in Papua New Guinea suggests
the way we see colour is influenced by our culture - and not the other way
round. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_298000/298479.stm
@ Links: Colour matters: http://www.lava.net/~colorcom/
@ Colour theory and practice: www.cadvision.com/hooker-perron/inxcolor.htm
@ Colour physics FAQ: http://www.colourware.co.uk/cpfaq.htm
@ Colour vision FAQ: http://server.esc.cquest.utoronto.ca/psych/psy280f/ch6/
: Is your perception more influenced by: language, biology, propaganda, ETs,
physical reality, expectation, the CIA, deities, beliefs, sorcery, disease?
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# HOW LONG WOULD YOU BE CONSCIOUS AFTER BEING BEHEADED? If you want to know
just what happens after the guillotine does it's business, here is a rather
graphic description. Oh, and you'd shuffle off the mortal coil after about
13 seconds. www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=10595
# WILL MAGNETS EASE PAIN, OR IS IT JUST B.S.? The claims about magnetic mat-
tresses or magnetic amulets are bogus, but there has been some interesting
research on magnets for treating nerve damage, and electrical stimulation to
treat back pain. But we've yet to see a study that takes the placebo effect
into account. www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=10591
: Have you ever experienced beheading [in a past life, maybe]?? Do magnets
relieve the pain of beheading? Would you rather be beheaded, garroted or
electromagnecuted? Would a removable head to be professionally useful? How?
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# Risk Of Lower IQs By Sleeping Less? LONDON (Reuters) Britons miss too much
sleep and risk becoming mentally retarded, sleep researchers warned. Shift-
work, longer working days and a "sleep-is-for-wimps culture" meant Britain
was moving toward a 24-hour society. Falling one hour short of eight hours
sleep a night could temporarily knock one point off a person's IQ. Fifteen
points could easily be lost in a week, which would make an average person
with an IQ of about 100 "borderline retarded," according to the researchers.
Sleeping it off - http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990322/07/odd-britain-sleep
: Can you raise your IQ by sleeping longer? Are siestas quick IQ-boosters?
If you became "borderline retarded" would anyone notice? Would you be happy?
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SkeptiLinks:
* Escaped slave settlement celebrated - Maroon independence:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558875596-3af
* Martial arts-style exercise program Tae-Bo kicks its way to success:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558890463-110
* Internet creates new forms of fraud - stock swindles online:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558890636-c1d
> Y2K COULD AFFECT FLOW OF U.S. OIL IMPORTS - Stockpiling not necessary:
http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9903/21/bigpicture.y2k.hln/index.html
> ETHNIC CLASHES ON BORNEO KILL 114 - Decapitation, possible cannibalism:
http://cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9903/22/BC-INDONESIA-BORNEO-1.reut/
> MALAYSIA GETS U.S. HELP WITH VIRUS - Soldiers shoot thousands of pigs:
http://cnn.com/HEALTH/9903/21/malaysia.virus.01/
* Urban wildlife refuge under siege - toxic-waste wilderness:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558890465-dcd
* Dozens of dolphins remain stranded - beached on Cape Cod:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558882486-775
* Venezuela to save exotic parrots... by selling them:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558890464-824
# Dawn chorus hard to hear - UK bird population declining rapidly:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_299000/299804.stm
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