-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990425s - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : Listowner/editor escaped from the Grays, but is terribly damaged. Yow. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # China Sect Members Surround Leadership Compound. BEIJING (Reuters) - More than 10,000 followers of a Chinese religious cult besieged Beijing's leader- ship compound to demand official status for their faith in the biggest pro- test in the capital for a decade. Leaders of the cult, which claims 100 mil- lion members and whose U.S.-based leader preaches salvation from a wicked world headed for catastrophe, demanded to meet Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji. Li Hongzhi, the charismatic leader of the Fa Lun Gong sect, claims powers of healing and rails against homosexuals, rock and roll, television and drugs, which he believes have poisoned the minds and bodies of mankind. Get it on: http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/Reuters19990425_30.html : How big is your sect? Do you demand recognition? Who do you demonize? Is your mind and body poisoned? Are you a member of mankind? Are humans boring? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > NEW WEB SITE LETS YOU ADOPT VIRTUAL FISH. (CNN) Aquariums in the office are a great way to help you relax, but they tend to require lots of valuable desk space not to mention water. A solution: virtual fish that live in your desktop PC. The PetFish Company's Web site is where fans of cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates go to "adopt" their favorite cyberfish. For $5.95, you can download and install a fish to your Windows PC. Modeled after real fish: http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9904/23/fish.idg/index.html : Would you rather download virtual fish, lizards, birds, dinosaurs, aliens, relatives, cartoons? If they're sentient AI's, do they have legal rights? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Revolutionary robo-worm - scientists say worm will inspect & repair blood vessels. (BBC) The smallest artificial worm in the world has been unveiled by scientists in Germany. It is designed for cleaning small pipes or even as a surgical tool to be sent through the veins and arteries of the human body. Crawl to: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_327000/327512.stm : Would you like to be reamed by roboworms? Would you like to BE a roboworm? Who do you want to ream? Would you like to be injected with microsurgeons? Can they fix your brain? Would you like to fix other peoples' brains Whose? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Food cult 'leaving children malnourished'. An Australian Senator says hundreds of Australian children are being denied a normal upbringing because their parents are involved in a bizarre food cult. Senator Grant Chapman says the cult operates under the guise of the Vibrational Individuation Program, which is based on the use and control of food. Yummy yummy - see http://www.abc.net.au/news/state/wa/archive/metwa-23apr1999-3.htm : Does your belief system encourage you to starve your offspring? Would you starve them anyway? Is your implant misfiring? Should everybody be starved? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Short Takes from "Cool Web Sightings:" @ Gallery of Regrettable Food. For folks who would like to drop some weight but don't have the willpower to diet and hate to exercise: The Gallery of Regrettable Food is guaranteed to cut your calorie intake. http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/index.html @ Refugee Background. Get an overview on the refugee crisis in war-torn Yugoslavia, courtesy of the U.S. Committee for Refugees. Including diplomatic initiatives, a historical perspective and fact sheet. http://www.refugees.org/news/crisis/kosovo.htm @ The Museum of Unnatural Mystery. A slightly bizarre, cyberspace, science museum for all ages. Are there really flying saucers? What killed the dinosaurs? Is there something ancient and alive in Loch Ness? The Museum takes a scientific look at these, and other, questions. http://unmuseum.mus.pa.us/unmuseum.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: @ COINTELPRO: http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/cointel.htm # CASHING IN ON CHERNOBYL VIRUS: www.cnnfn.com/digitaljam/9904/23/viruses/ @ National Tourism Organization of Serbia: http://www.serbia-info.com/ntos/ @ Belgrade Tourist Office: http://www.beograd.com/belgrade_guide/ # Stupid Judge Tricks: http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990423/15/odd-judges @ Questions about medicinal marijuana answered by the Institute of Medicine's report": http://www.mpp.org/science.html @ Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP): http://www.csicop.org/ @ Citizens Against UFO Secrecy: http://www.caus.org @ The Mummy: http://www.themummy.com/ # SUNDIAL WILL MARK DAYS ON MARS: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9904/23/space.sundial.reut/index.html # When Worlds Collide: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_326000/326709.stm @ The Cosmos: a Search for Life: www.the-cosmos.com/data/english/enhanced/ @ Cool Web Sightings: http://coolsights.listbot.com/ select: ARCHIVES @ Gallery Of The Absurd: http://absurdgallery.com/ @ The Face of Russia: http://www.pbs.org/weta/faceofrussia/ @ Info gateway to Nanavut Territory: http://www.nunavut.com/home.html @ Alien Empire: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/alienempire/ @ Time and the Presidency: http://www.pathfinder.com/offers/presidents/ @ Mysteries of the Nile: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/egypt/ @ Earth Alert: http://www.discovery.com/news/earthalert/earthalert.html # ARE GUNS OR SOCIETY TO BLAME? http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/04/23/politics.guns/ # DIARY REVEALS YEAR-LONG PLAN FOR SCHOOL MASSACRE: http://www.cnn.com/US/9904/24/school.shooting.04/index.html http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/littleton_main990425.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_327000/327789.stm # Complete AbcNews Littleton school shooting coverage: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/littleton_index/littleton_index.html # Canada School Bans Black Trenchcoats After Massacre: http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990423/15/odd-trenchcoats @ Warning signs of youth violence: http://helping.apa.org/warningsigns/ @ A mirror of the Trench Coat Mafia Website http://www.toddzilla.com _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Dancer-grammarians that they were, Julia and Karinov were singularly magne- tized by the plurality of each other's leaps, and became vocative, dative, genitive; and, lo, as the music swelled, K. rose, imperative, to his full six-feet-nine, wound his neck about hers like a trumpeter swan, and idioma- ticized, 'Punctuate me, baby!' as he, overcome, lapsed into a passive sub- junctive pas." --Lucy Lightbody * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.sonic.net/~ric * ICQ# 19633976 * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SkeptiChat archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm Anomaly archives: www.geocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/5840/files.htm DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. 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