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# Early volcano victims discovered - Whole populations may have been wiped
out simultaneously. (BBC) An erupting volcano may have claimed the lives of
human ancestors living about 18 million years ago in East Africa. A new
study of deposits, in which fossils of the human forerunner Proconsul have
been found, have shown that they lived in a semi-arid environment close to a
volcano - Kisingiri - which was active at the time. Killed by a pyroclastic
flow: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_334000/334476.stm
@ Links: Volcano World: http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/
@ Natural History Museum: Human Evolution
http://www.naturalpartners.org/VirtualTour/Tour/First/Human/index.html
@ Information on pyroclastic flows
http://jersey.uoregon.edu/~mstrick/AskGeoMan/geoQuerry33.html
@ Images of pyroclastic flows
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Photo/PyroFlows/images.html
@ Guided tour of early ancestors
http://info.gla.ac.uk/Museum/guided/Hominid/Sect1/guid01.html
: Are these remains real, or were they 'planted' by mischievous deities or
devious extraterrestials? Do you want to be immortalized in lava deposits?
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# TREPANATION - THE HOLE STORY. Drilling your skull: Is it the way to bliss
or just extremely dangerous? (SALON) Feeling depressed? Lethargic? Shell-
shocked by life's little bombardments? You could try meditation. Or yoga. Or
color therapy. Or herbal remedies. Or, if you prefer drastic measures, you
could drill a hole in your head. It's been around since the Stone Age - see
http://www.salon1999.com/health/feature/1999/04/29/trepanation/index.html
: What size drill do you use for relief? Whose head would you like to drill
holes in? Would you be better off with a sieve skull? Or just a view port?
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# Was it the Devil's Work? Youths Say Exorcism Freed Them From Terror (ABC)
NEW YORK - Something terrifying happened to two young people. Skeptics say
their childhood ordeals might have been caused by mental illness, trauma,
organic brain disorders or psychosomatic dysfunction. But they and their
families, as well as clergymen and doctors, believe they survived demonic
possession. http://more.abcnews.go.com/onair/2020/demons980422.html
: Would you rather be possessed by demons, angels, aliens, CIA ops, weevils?
Would you rather be treated with exorcism, trepanation, chemicals, implants?
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# Snake Charmer's Luck Runs Out. BANGKOK (Reuters) A Thai snake charmer died
when a python he'd captured from a neighbor's home coiled itself around his
neck and strangled him. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990504/08/odd-snake
# British Inventor Eyes Linux. Sir Clive Sinclair single-handedly launched
the UK's home PC market in the early 80's. Now, Britain's most famous high-
tech inventor has a new project: a cheap, portable Linux machine, to cost
less than half the price of a comparable Wintel box. Wait two years - see
www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/technology/story/19462.html
# Amway Spread Satan Rumors, P&G Claims In Court. HOUSTON (Reuters) Along
with soap and vitamins, those friendly Amway salesmen have been pushing
something else for years false rumors that rival Procter & Gamble Co. is in
league with the devil, attorneys charged in opening arguments of a lawsuit.
Devil made'em do it: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990504/08/odd-satan
and http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/Reuters19990503_2369.html
# Monk's Gold Donations Top One Ton. BANGKOK (Reuters) A Buddhist monk
achieved his dream of collecting more than one tonne of gold to help
cash-strapped Thailand. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990504/08/odd-gold
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SkeptiLinks:
@ New Face On Mars?: http://users.flnet.com/%7Eksamurai/newface.html
@ Making Star Trek Real: http://qedcorp.com/book/bigtest.html
@ Remembering Waco - When is a sect a cult? What really happened? Why?
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/chat_990419waco.html
@ End-Time Religious Cults - How many doomsday groups are in the US?
http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/chat_990211abanes.html
# Apocalypse Really Soon - Is it the End of the World as We Know It?
http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/cults980105.html
# SCENT OF A LOVER - the chemicals of attraction:
http://www.salon.com/health/log/1999/05/04/pheromones/index.html
@ UNSINKABLE, THE FULL STORY OF RMS TITANIC:
http://www.stackpolebooks.com/unsinkable.htm
# Peer Sexual Harassment Rampant in US Schools - parents striking back:
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/sexharassment_990430.html
@ Clone wars: Who gets the money if Bill Gates decides to reproduce himself?
http://www.salon.com/health/col/vitz/1999/05/04/dangerous_sex/index.html
# Weapon With Side Effects - armor-piercing depleted uranium bullets:
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/uranium990503.html
# Y2K: A LICENSE TO PRINT MONEY? Federal Reserve rolls the presses:
www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/politics/story/19444.html
# Meteors Down Under - Halley's comet debris will put on a sky show in
early May: http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast03may99_1.htm
# MISSION ACCOMPLISHED - Liberty 7 found, may be retrieved & refurbished:
http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/story/19455.html and
http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9905/02/grissom.capsule.ap/index.html
# HITLER YOUTH? Columbine massacre and alienated youth culture:
http://www.salon.com/news/col/cona/1999/05/04/nazis/index.html
@ AMERICAN POISON: Littleton massacre is proof of US spiritual emptiness:
http://www.salon.com/people/col/pagl/1999/04/28/camille/index.html
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"As the singer, a tone-deaf Bulgarian with a voice like flat Guinness,
poured his song into the ears of the vile patrons of der Kister, Hamburg's
filthiest, smokiest, and most outrageous low-life bar, Hunter - sensing
that his man was suddenly close - slid his hand slowly and unobtrusively
into his jacket, wrapping his fingers deftly around the butt and through
the trigger guard of his 9mm automatic - as he had done so many times bef-
ore - and shot himself rather nastily in the left thigh." --Geoffrey Burn
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