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# Canada firm clones goat triplets to make spider silk. QUEBEC CITY, Quebec
(Reuters) - News that a Canadian biotechnology company has cloned goat
triplets prompted warnings that the technology involved could lead to the
cloning of humans. The company, Montreal-based Nexia Biotechnologies Inc.,
said that the cloning was a first step in its plan to produce spider silk
in goat's milk and turn it into a super-strong material for medical use.
http://cnn.com/NATURE/9904/28/spider.goats.reut/index.html
: Would you like to be cloned to make spiderwebs? Will you drink silky milk?
If you take LSD what patterns will you weave in your web? Make it colorful?
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# Singer-priest Sinead O'Connor withdraws donation. In her first week as a
Catholic priest, singer Sinead O'Connor has generated a controversy within
her church and has decided to withdraw a 150,000-pound (US$200,000) donation
to the bishop who ordained her. O'Connor and Cox have previously said the
money was meant to support a healing center in Ireland. But another Bishop
in the Latin Tridentine Church, Pat Buckley, says it smacked of simony, the
buying of something sacred. Recalling donation 'for protective reasons' -
http://cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/News/9904/29/showbuzz/index.html#story2
: Would you rather bribe a Tridentine bishop, a Pope, an Ayatollah, a Grand
Boo-Hoo, a Metropolitan, a Goddess, a Televangelist, a Cuarandero, or me?
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# Dinosaurs more like cows than giraffes. Forget the images of graceful din-
osaurs browsing like giraffes among tall trees; it is more likely that they
ate off the ground. Biomechanical tests on the bones of such swan-necked
creatures as Apatosaurus (a.k.a. Brontosaurus) and Diplodocus show their
necks would have worked best when angled slightly downward. Not 'Jurassic
Park': http://cnn.com/NATURE/9904/29/dinosaur.necks.reut/index.html
: Are you more comfortable browsing on trees or grazing the ground? Are you
Jurassic, Cretaceous or Diabetic? Do Reptilioids get sore necks as they eat?
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# Legendary aphrodisiac draws mobs of Turkish lovers. MANISA, Turkey (CNN)
Hoping a centuries-old secret recipe will inject new romance into their
lives, more than 14,000 people flocked to the western Turkish town of Manisa
this week to grab a piece of a legendary aphrodisiac. Local authorities
planned to throw hundreds of kilograms of a mysterious paste, known as Mesur
Macunu, from the top of the Sultan mosque in Manisa's main square. See:
http://cnn.com/WORLD/meast/9904/26/fringe/turkey.aphrodisiac/index.html
: Do you prefer aphrodisiacs that are solid, liquid, vaporous, pasty, icy,
boiling, tasty, bland, sweet, sour? Do you prefer ancient or modern recipes?
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SansComment:
*** Gov't overthrow plot trial nears end. LITTLE ROCK (AP) Nearly 1.5 years
after being accused in a violent plot to overthrow the gov't and establish a
whites-only republic in the Northwest, two men will have their fates decided
by a jury. Chevie Kehoe & Danny Lee could get the death penalty. Prosecutors
said the men pursued their dream to set up the Aryan People's Republic by
stockpiling military-style weapons and robbing and murdering several people.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559360710-520
# Cloning may damage long-term health. (BBC) The type of cloning that
produced the sheep Dolly may result in serious long-term damage to health.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_331000/331793.stm
# First transatlantic dinosaur found. The same flesh-eating dino terrorised
creatures in both Europe and N.America; finding challenges plate tectonic
theories. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_331000/331346.stm
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SkeptiLinks:
# LOCKHEED: IKONOS FELL INTO SEA - imaging satellite sees only fish:
http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/19403.html
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559351585-744
# EVIDENCE OF PLATE SHIFTS ON MARS - once contained water & maybe life:
http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/19404.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_331000/331535.stm
# BUBBLE BATHS ARE FOR THE BIRDS - dry clean birds caught in oil spills:
http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/19390.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_330000/330616.stm
# CIH VIRUS CULPRIT PEGGED? Chen Ing-hau wrote the hard-drive-eating bug:
http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/business/story/19397.html
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559356880-69a
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/newsid_332000/332147.stm
# British military convoy gets lost - Greeks hide highway signs:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559361161-c8f
# Eunuchs turning prejudice around - using bias to make cash:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_332000/332173.stm
@ Strange But True Facts: http://sbt.bhmedia.com/
@ Maledicta Quickies: http://www.sonic.net/maledicta/quickies.1.html
@ Technology and Public Participation: www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/TPP/
# Sex on the Web: http://www.cnet.com/Digdispatch/dispatch342.html
# Sex in Games: http://www.cnet.com/Digdispatch/dispatch346.html
# JET CREW'S CLOSE ENCOUNTER W/UFO: www.mirror.co.uk/stories/F2804934.html
# Just a sight for poor eyes:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/9904/28/text/national8.html
# Satellite may have been cause of UFO sightings:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/state/nsw/archive/metnsw-27apr1999-7.htm
# Shooting star explanation for UFO sighting:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/state/qld/archive/metqld-27apr1999-10.htm
# Strange lights reported on NSW and Qld coasts:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/state/qld/archive/metqld-27apr1999-1.htm
@ Reverse speech & bent spoons, yada yada yada: http://www.davidoates.com/
@ THE COMING BATTLE: finance conspiracy: http://lvdi.net/~willys/cmgbtl.htm
@ The Littleton Conspiracy: www.konformist.com/1999/colorado/theory.htm
@ Littleton & LUVOX: http://www.begin.com/redoak/medications/luvox.html)
@ LUVOX & Mania: www.ocdresource.com/ocdresource.nsf/pages/Diagnosis+Luvox
@ Mania symptoms: http://mentalhelp.net/articles/grohol/bipolar.htm
@ More on mania: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/dart1/need2no/symptoms.htm
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"Inga's breath came in ragged gasps as Virgil deftly manipulated her roseate
flesh -- each touch of his huge but knowing fingers sending delicious
quiverings through her highly sensitized nerve endings, and she bit her
knuckle, fearful that at any moment she might five way to sobs of raw animal
pleasure; this, then, was love, she realized, as Virgil rubbed cool white
globs Noxema into her sunburned back." --Lynne Marie Waldron
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