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# Chernobyl never dies. (BBC) Radioactive contamination from the Chernobyl
accident will go on increasing for at least 60 years. And that's the *good*
news: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_351000/351286.stm
@ Links: Uranium Institute: http://www.uilondon.org/chernidx.htm
@ OECD Nuclear Energy Agency: www.nea.fr/html/rp/chernobyl/chernobyl.html
: How quickly can you evolve adaptations to radioactivity? Does Chernobyl
make you want to leave Earth soon? Can we escape before it gets too hot?
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# AIRPORT FOR UFOs looks for signals from a hidden universe - A strange new
machine is taking shape on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, and it may show
us something never seen before. Stretched out on the mottled desert is a
thin letter "L" that goes on for miles, its lines so unnaturally straight
that they seem to float off the ground. "An airport for UFOs," goes the
joke. Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or Ligo, will
hunt for ripples in space-time caused by collisions of black holes and the
collapses of stars: http://www.oregonlive.com/news/99/05/st052301.html
: Whose fault is it when stars collapse? Would you rather build a gravity-
wave observatory, an airport for UFOs, or a base for The Black Helicopters?
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# Using Spy Cameras On Kids, Maids. SINGAPORE (Reuters) Watch out in
Singapore, because big brother - or your boss, or your parents - might
be watching your every move with tiny spy cameras hidden at home and at
work. Demand has soared for secret surveillance devices to watch over
premises and spy on employees, as well as children and maids at home.
Small security cameras that are often disguised as wall sockets or
smoke detectors. See http://news.excite.com/news/r/990524/09/odd-spy
: Who would you like to spy on? Who would you like to spy on you? Would you
mind being spied upon? Are you open to blackmail? Do ETs read your brain?
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# Moon spacecraft set for crash-landing. (BBC) Scientists may deliberately
crash the Lunar Prospector into Luna in an attempt to prove the presence of
water. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_351000/351372.stm
@ Links: Lunar Prospector: http://lunar.arc.nasa.gov/
@ Exploring Luna: http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov/expmoon/lunar_missions.html
: Does your insurance cover Lunar crashes? Would you rather crash on Terra,
Luna, Mars, Venus, Ganymede, Zeta Reticula II? Does your crash harness work?
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# CIA CLEARED TO 'DESTABILIZE' YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT. Pres. Clinton has auth-
orized the Central Intelligence Agency to look into ways to destabilize the
government of Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic, sources have told
CNN. The authorization comes in the form of a "finding," a highly classified
document authorizing covert operations. The sources say that the finding
authorizes the CIA to consider the use of computers to conduct cyberwar
against Milsoevic. http://cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9905/24/kosovo.01/
: What govt's would you like to destabilize? Is cyberwar trickier than hot
wars? Is it easier to destabilize the Yugo, US, UK, Utah or Uranus gov't?
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# Tobacco candy considered. ST. PAUL (AP) A major cigarette maker once cons-
idered making tobacco-based lollipops and other candies with nicotine at the
same time the industry claimed it was trying to make smoking unattractive
to kids. The idea was among several tobacco product proposals to emerge at
an Oct. 1992 brainstorming session by execs at Brown & Williamson Tobacco
Corp. Others included a wafer bread product, "foam tobacco; sponge or cotton
candy products; a fruit roll-up; tea; a paper stick resembling a lollipop; a
"chew stick;" tobacco spice to sprinkle on food; a "tobacco-derived salted
snack;" and a tobacco pill. Didn't think of tobacco suppositories, eye- and
nose-drops: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559654311-739
: Would you like candy containing nicotine, morphine, cocaine, heroin, LSD,
cannabis, methamphetamine? Do you eat candy containing alcohol? Is it fun?
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# US human embryo research backed. (BBC) The US government should fund
research on human embryos, says an ethics panel appointed by Pres. Bill
Clinton. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_351000/351478.stm
@ Links: US National Institutes of Health: http://www.nih.gov/
@ US National Conference of Catholic Bishops: www.nccbuscc.org/prolife/
@ Council for Responsible Genetics: http://www.gene-watch.org/cloning.html
@ CloneZone/NewSci: www.newscientist.com/nsplus/insight/clone/clone.html
: Whose embryos would you like to experiment on? Would you like to splice
human & animal & alien & vegetable genes/embryos together? Would it be fun?
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*** Drug co. accused of funding stories. DALLAS (AP) A firm that made part
of the diet drug combo fen-phen hired ghostwriters for articles promoting
obesity treatment and then had prominent researchers publish the works under
their names. Wyeth-Ayers Labs, which made the "fen" half of the drug mix,
hid health risks associated with the drugs. The company allegedly tried to
play down or remove descriptions of side effects from the articles. Studies
have linked the combo to heart valve damage and an often-fatal lung disease.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559655562-9e1
: What's more important, intellectual honesty or a strong profit margin? Do
you believe everything you read? Do you swallow everything that's offered?
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SkeptiLinks:
# Georgia churchgoers pray for peace - are totally ignored by deities:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559656099-958
# Clinton backs airstrikes in editorial - promises to kill for peace:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559657457-6c8
# GOP targets Reno for China spying - rip her guts out, says Senate:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559659607-f7f
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