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@ Ivory Tower - Must dog eat dog? After preaching that humans live by animal
laws of aggression and selfishness, evolutionary psychologists are finding
the animal kingdom is not as brutal as they imagined. Competition or cooper-
ation? http://www.salon1999.com/books/it/1999/05/21/evolution/index.html
: Did you evolve to kill or be kill, eat or be eaten? Who lives better, com-
petitors or cooperators? Do implants modify your behavior? Are you nicer?
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*** Boys may be impacted by body types. BOSTON (AP) Long legs, a tiny waist
and a big bust made Barbie the target of critics for giving girls an unreal-
istic body ideal. Now, chiseled pectorals, abdominals and biceps have put
male action figures under similar scrutiny. Researchers who studied boys'
favored action figures found they preferred "very muscular figures." The
majority of male action figures placed on the market since the 1960s have
been beefed up to bulky, inhuman proportions, leading boys to believe muscle
equals masculinity, the study said. Before then "people weren't using
anabolic steroids so men would lift weights and stay within their natural
body size." www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559621543-8ea
: Has your body preference been reprogrammed? Would you like to be rebuilt?
What's your fave action figure? Would you like to change bodies regularly?
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@ Guns and penises: American society's problem isn't guns -- it's the
sexually dysfunctional men and women who abuse them. And bullets, natch:
http://www.salon1999.com/people/col/pagl/1999/05/12/penises/index.html
@ Urge: Fallen angels - Feminist and right-wing anti-porn crusaders gave up
trying to save women when women said "No thanks!" Now it's just kids they
want to protect. www.salon1999.com/health/sex/col/brig/1999/05/15/fallen/
: Are you dysfunctional? Do you kill? Are you swamped with porn? Would you
rather save yourself, women and children, kids only, aliens, heathens, me?
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*** Intel develops portable computer. (AP) - You may not be able to take a
moon shuttle or spend a night in space like characters in the movie "2001:
A Space Odyssey," but the kind of thin computer pad they carried could be
on shelves by the real 2001. Intel Corp., the world's largest chip maker,
is testing a device about the size of an Etch-a-Sketch that taps into the
Internet without a wire and can be passed around the house from husband to
wife to kid to check the latest headlines, e-mail, stock quotes and even
the school lunch menu. "They'll have to come out here and pry it out of
my hands": http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559623884-3fb
: Would you rather have a newspad computer, have a computer implanted in
your body, or be totally isolated from computers? Do you have any choice?
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WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 21 May 99 Washington, DC
3. NATIONAL MISSILE DEFENSE: PHANTOM STAR WARS BILL PASSES. By an overwhel-
ming vote of 345 to 71, Congress boldly declared that it is the policy of
the United States to deploy a defense against ballistic missiles whenever
it is "technologically feasible." That could be awhile. The bill appropri-
ates no money, but the cost estimate is up to $75B. The only Republican
voting against it was physicist Vern Ehlers, who said he could not vote
for something that cost so much with so little chance of working.
: Are expensive weapons systems that don't work, better than those that do?
For whom? Who's bribing all these congressfolk to spend tax money on this?
4. PATENT OFFICE: FALLOUT FROM FUTURE ENERGY CONFERENCE. One result of the
recent conference on over-unity concepts (WN 30 Apr 99) was that it led to a
close look at the Patent and Trademark Office. The confab was hosted by the
Integrity Research Institute, whose president, Tom Valone, is a patent exam-
iner. WN has warned for some time about efforts to infiltrate the Patent
Office with examiners sympathetic to fringe science (WN 20 Nov 98). In
this week's Science magazine David Voss reports on his investigation of the
Patent Office. In addition to patents awarded for various cold-fusion and
over-unity devices, the DKL Lifeguard, a dowsing rod with lights and buttons
(WN 25 Sep 98), and an electrical switch operated by ESP, have made the cut.
: Have you patented any perpetual-motion, over-unity or other free-energy
devices lately? Was it hard? Does it work? If it works, why aren't energy
corporations defunct yet? Have Reptilioids interfered with your work? How?
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SkeptiLinks:
@ FOREIGNWIRE - global outlook on the news: http://www.foreignwire.com
@ Southwest Volcano Research Centre: www.goodnet.com/~ej76707/cerupt.htm
@ Earth Changes Today: http://www.quickeningnews.com/current.htm
# AMAZON RELENTS, REINSTATES BOOK. The online bookseller will resume
selling the Scientology expose, A Piece of Blue Sky, except in Great
Britain, where the book is banned. Smugglers, this is your chance:
www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/politics/story/19811.html
@ Long Live Death! www.nationalbolshevik.com
@ Schulgen Memo: http://www.parascope.com/articles/0597/schulgen.htm
@ Free nice Islamic programs: http://www.al-sunnah.com/free.htm
# BIOTECH VS.'BAMBI' OF INSECTS? GENE-ALTERED CORN MAY KILL MONARCHS:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/1999-05/20/032r-052099-idx.html
# Australia bracing for Indonesians - elections could lead to a flood of
refugees: www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559621457-aa7
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"Ignoring the slime as it dripped onto the gem-laden, barnacle-encrusted
treasure chest they had chanced to discover, Jasmine wondered, as she sec-
ured the last of the twenty-four buttons on her satin bodice, if the daily
splendors she sought in the hidden island caves, with her soul mate Raoul,
were worth the bile-inducing nightly sacrifices she made in the century-old
four-poster, with her poxied husband, Lord Rathbone..." --Bitten Norman
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