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# Australia searches for ET. (BBC) Scientists in Australia are to begin one
of the most powerful searches for ET ever undertaken. Stranger than kanga-
roos: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_364000/364833.stm
# Star Trek 'warp drive' possible. A 'warp drive', like that which powers
the USS Enterprise, may be possible according to new theoretical calcula-
tions. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_364000/364496.stm
: Would you follows the Prime Directive? Would you expect aliens to? Are far
stars worth voyaging to? Are alien civilizations worth finding? Are we? Why?
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# New superheavy elements created. (BBC) Two new "superheavy" elements have
been made by bombarding lead atoms with fast-moving krypton atoms at the
rate of two trillion per second. Any slower, and it just wouldn't have
worked: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_363000/363968.stm
# Also: Hunting the Higgs (the God Particle):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_299000/299550.stm
# Matter or antimatter, that is the question:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_336000/336001.stm
@ Links: Element 118: http://user88.lbl.gov/element118.html
@ Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: http://www.lbl.gov/
@ The particle adventure: http://pdg.lbl.gov/cpep/adventure_home.html
: What's your favorite superheavy element? What will you do with it? Will it
be useful in warp drives? Will you be caught in time warps? Will you escape?
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# TRY TO REMEMBER PART I: A LOSS OF ATTENTION. A new study says that memory
loss associated with Alzheimer's might have more to do with attention prob-
lems, than just with memory. Another discovery, that is no surprise to any-
one with an older relative: older people are susceptible to the creation of
false memories. www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=13064
# TRY TO REMEMBER PART II: STRESS AND MEMORY. When you're under stress, you
forget things. This has been confirmed in a controlled, double-blind study
that found that normally healthy people suffer decreased mental performance
when exposed to stress. So try to remember: avoid stress as much as you can.
High on stress: www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=13063
: Do you remember previous editions of this bulletins? Is this worth remem-
bering? Do you enjoy stress? With memory loss, is every day a new adventure?
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# N. IRISH POLICE ARREST PROTESTANT MILITANT, SEIZE BOMBS AND AMMUNITION.
Police arrested a suspected Protestant militant after finding 14 pipe bombs
and ammunition in his home. They evacuated families from 22 neighboring
homes near Belfast while British army explosives experts defused all the
homemade bombs. http://cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9906/08/AM-NorthernIreland.ap/
: Does your belief system promote bombing, shooting, other forms of murder
and mayhem? What's your favorite spiritual excuse for committing atrocities?
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# Ore. teen to claim mental illness. EUGENE, Ore. (AP) Kip Kinkel, the teen-
ager accused of murdering his parents and then killing 2 students in a shoo-
ting rampage at his high school, will use a mental illness defense that may
someday result in his freedom. Then he can kill again, with any gun that's
nearby: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559850507-1fd
: Do you feel a murderous rage? Do you succumb to that rage? Do you want to
kill one or more people? Do the voices in your head tell you to kill? Why?
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*** 'God' creates flap in Canadian gov't. OTTAWA (AP) A left-wing member of
Parliament was loudly jeered by conservative colleagues when he submitted a
petition from about 1,000 of his constituents urging that references to God
be deleted from Canada's constitution. The petition, drafted by the Humanist
Association of Canada, asks the government to amend a section of the Charter
of Rights and Freedoms that says Canada is "founded upon principles that
recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law." Just which God, isn't
specified: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559853003-b46
: Is the God protecting Canada singular, trinitarian, an aboriginal spirit
infusing all life? If that God's great, why doesn't Canada rule the world?
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@ ARE HANDCUFFS HAZARDOUS TO BIG GUYS WITH ASTHMA?
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@ HOW LOW CAN MY DAUGHTER'S METHADONE DOSE GO?
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@ End Times news: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Cyprus/7295/
@ ANOMALOUS IMAGES @ UFO FILES: http://www.anomalous-images.com/
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Jack's hot, hairy hands mauled his sister-in-law Georgette's thin, gossamer
blouse as she bent her willing thighs to his burning needs; she closed her
eyes and steamily breathed, "Oh, kiss me, Jack, and make it hurt!" -- but
had she opened her eyes and seen the uncertainty on his face, she might
have guessed he was thinking, "Kiss you? We shouldn't even be doing this!"
--Stephen Seitz
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