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# Online life behind bars. (BBC) Internet users can now get a taste of life
behind bars after Britain's Prison Service went online. Do the jailhouse
rock: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_350000/350208.stm
: How much of pain and pleasure, punishment and reward, can/should be exper-
ienced online? Are the worst prisons inside your own head? Do they stink?
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# Antiques Dealer Trades In Missile Debris. SOFIA (Reuters) - An antiques
dealer in the Bulgarian capital Sofia hopes the war in neighboring Yugosla-
via will end soon because it would push up prices of missile debris in which
he trades. The material is in place - six stray missiles have hit Bulgaria
since NATO started bombing Yugoslavia eight weeks ago. Pieces of NATO HARMs
and Russian-designed rockets are on sale in Sofia's Letostrui antiques shop.
Collectors abound: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990521/08/odd-debris
: Do you collect old or new munitions? Do you prefer NATO, Warsaw Pact, Zeta
Reticulan bomb fragments? Do you have War of the Worlds collectibles? Which?
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# Revered mummy returns home. (BBC) Mountain tribes in northern Philippines
celebrate the recovery of the mummified remains of one of their ancestors.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_350000/350179.stm
: Do you honor/worship/ignore the remains of your ancestors? Would you like
to be mummified, honored, worshipped, ignored? Do you worship alien mummies?
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# Birthday Buddha's tooth in Hong Kong. (BBC) A tooth relic believed by
Buddhists to be that of the Lord Buddha has arrived in Hong Kong where
a special ceremony is to be held on Saturday to mark Buddha's birthday.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_349000/349990.stm
# Also: Nepal hosts world's Buddhists:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_225000/225515.stm
# Devastated temple to rise from the ashes:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/s/w_asia/newsid_86000/86274.stm
# SOUTH KOREA FREES PRISONERS TO MARK BUDDHA'S BIRTHDAY:
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,100003050,00.html
@ Links: Essential Buddhism http://home.earthlink.net/~srama/index.html#FNT
@ Buddhist resources online http://www.iems.nwu.edu/~cwshen/buda-net.html
: Do you cherish any physical remains of the founder of your belief system?
Do belief systems require relics? Are alien implants worth cherishing? Why?
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# BRITISH MAY LEGALIZE MEDICAL MARIJUANA. The UK Parliament is considering a
bill to lift a ban on medical marijuana. And other European countries are
researching the use of pharmaceutical heroin for addicts who don't respond
to methadone. www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=12590
: Would you rather have legal pot, legal opiates, alien implants, nanodocs,
therapeutic touch, magical healing angels, psychic surgery, magnetic shoes?
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# CJD deaths could be on the rise. (BBC) Deaths from the human form of mad
cow disease could be just about begin a 'longer, slower, climb'. Get ready:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_349000/349357.stm
: Would you rather contract CJD by eating cow brains, sheep brains, human
brains? Are prions nature's way of telling us to go vegetarian? Will you?
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SkeptiLinks:
@ INTERNET HEALTH HOAX WATCH:
www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=12587
# Look Out Viagra: Here Comes 'Love Jet' - 60-spray bottle, $99:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990521/08/odd-lovejet
# ARMY CONVERTS CLASSROOMS TO REFUGEE PRAYER ROOMS:
# U.S. IS ASKED TO SUPPORT RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN TURKEY:
# 25% OF NEW CATHOLIC PRIESTS IN U.S. ARE FROM MINORITIES:
# ULTRA-ORTHODOX JEWS HARASS WORSHIPPERS IN JERUSALEM:
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,100003050,00.html
@ CIA/USAF Coverup of UFOs [the real thing!]
http://www.odci.gov/csi/studies/97unclas/ufo.html
@ Parapsychology in Intelligence: Rise & Fall of CIA's Psychic Spies:
http://www.parascope.com/ds/articles/CIAparapsychology.htm
# Ewoks, Vulcans and filkers have landed near Salt Lake airport:
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,100003034,00.html
# The end may be near for Cathedral Canyon - decrepit desert sanctuary:
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,100003041,00.html
@ ZetaTalk: Millennium Denial: http://www.zetatalk.com/poleshft/p01.htm
@ Mysterious Universe: paranormal news: http://www.MysteriousUniverse.com
@ Jimi Hendrix & UFO Space Brethren: www.brotherblue.org/brethren/jimi.htm
# Guatemala Volcano Spews Ash, Rock Near Tourist Town:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990522/03/international-guatemala-volcano
# Drought disaster hits Mexico - large parts of Mexico becomes dustbowl:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_350000/350069.stm
# Hundreds Missing In Pakistan Cyclone - Official:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990522/06/news-pakistan-cyclone
# Falwell career may be waning but his influence still far-reaching.
Jerry Falwell keeps a Tinky Winky doll on top of his computer:
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,100003044,00.html?
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The sky pregnant with scudding mauve-tinted clouds did not distract
Gwendillian, the dulcet-voiced wench from Boca Croza, who at this
moment was crazed with scented passion, breasts heaving, eyes dilated,
heart thudding, and lungs shouting, "Feona, you tart, you can't have
Hubert!" --Dr. & Mrs. Morris Saperstein
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