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# Secret exposure. (BBC) Former East German dissidents claim the secret
police exposed them to radiation. Leukemia a major weapon of the Stasi:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_352000/352461.stm
# Pressure produces gene therapy breakthrough. (BBC) Putting organs under
pressure is key to a remarkable new approach to gene therapy, the medical
treatment which works by altering a patient's DNA. Squeeze the wheeze:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_352000/352358.stm
: "That which does not kill us, only leaves us feeling bad." Is stress good?
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# Teacher Loses Job After Class Loses Clothes. (Reuters) - A Vancouver
community college thought an instructor went too far when he persuaded his
class to strip naked, although the students themselves apparently did not
mind. Langara College fired the instructor and canceled the adult class on
shamanism after a school official recently heard about the April incident
in casual conversation. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990526/17/odd-naked
: Would you trust a clothed shaman? Would you get naked in school? Have you?
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# War transformed attitudes to disability. (BBC) War - long associated with
giving an impetus to the feminist movement - also played a major part in
transforming people's views of disability. Maimed victims need acceptance:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_353000/353682.stm
# Groups clash over alcohol strategy. (BBC) Drinking among women and
teenagers has dramatically increased in recent years and a tough national
strategy is needed to tackle the problem, says a leading alcohol charity.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_352000/352425.stm
: Are your attitudes about disability and alcoholism formed by exposure,
propaganda, experience, mind-control rays, alien implants, hypnotism, me?
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# Company Plans To Test 'Flying Car'. LONDON (Reuters) A US aviation firm
plans to test a revolutionary new "flying car" that will hover above the
ground and could change the way people travel in the future. The Batmobile
shaped vehicle will seat four people, do about five miles per liter of gas,
have a top speed of over 370 miles per hour and will take off and land
vertically. Holy Honda! http://news.excite.com/news/r/990526/17/odd-car
: Have you long awaited the skycar? Are experimental skycars mistaken for
UFOs? Will more be misidentified in the future? Are skycars alien devices?
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# Is Dolly old before her time? (BBC) Dolly the Sheep may be susceptible to
premature ageing, new research suggests. Baaa-aaad news for clonemeisters:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_353000/353617.stm
# 'Ageing molecule' secrets revealed. (BBC) Mice that died early and got
cancer more often have revealed the first intriguing insights in live
animals of how an "ageing molecule" leads to the body's deterioration.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_290000/290937.stm
: Should clones have short expirations? Do you wanna live forever? Why not?
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# Mysterious Deaths of Harbor Porpoises on East Coast. Solomons Island, MD
Between March and April 1999, more than 160 porpoises washed up dead or
dying along the East Coast of the United States. The number of deaths
tripled over 1998. Marine scientists are baffled about why the porpoises
are dying in such numbers and plan to have a meeting in early June 1999
to compare research findings. http://earthfiles.com/earth001.html
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# Raw garlic tackles cancer. Doctors have established how much garlic they
think a person would have to eat each day to gain from its anti-cancer pro-
perties. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_353000/353507.stm
# What to eat to beat cancer. (BBC) Diet plays an important role in helping
the body resist cancer, but which foods really cut the risk of cancer?
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/medical_notes/newsid_353000/353669.stm
: What would you ingest to prevent cancer? What would you avoid? What do the
voices in your head tell you? Is cancer caused by food, chemicals, aliens?
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SkeptiLinks:
# Rosie O'Donnell toy pulled from shelves due to hidden cannibalism feature:
# Dog starves to death after kids renege on promise to feed him:
# People magazine and National Enquirer call for JonBenet Ramsey's body to
be exhumed for photo-shoot: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7995/news_9.htm
# Sabotage at Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant near Washington DC:
# Global warming - upsurge in traumatic precipitation worldwide:
# Cattle mutilations in Burns, Colo.: http://earthfiles.com/earth007.html
# Kathy Lee Gifford exploits Demon Baby in sweat shop:
# Eric Clapton, to jumpstart career, pushes second child from hotel ledge:
# Uma Thurman's 6th abortion refuses to leave the womb:
# Dali Lama tired of being re-incarnated, decides this will be final life:
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7995/news_15.htm
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Malaena saw it at once... pulsating, purulent in its liquid shape, filling
her with an icy revulsion, yet she knew in her heart that, by the rising of
the sun, her bronzed, glistening shape would be writing in torment for the
want of it, for Thojhma the Sheep God had inhaled the wafting incense, and
nodded approvingly as the sacrificial alter gleamed redly in the flickering
dawnlight, for even as she struggled, her body -- throbbing with the need
for mind bond -- allowed her tingling tongue to call its name -- "Ralph!!!
Ralph!!!" --Angela Haw
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