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# 'Ban animal organ transplants'. (BBC) Doctors and lawyers have called for
a ban on use of animal organs for human transplants. Just let'em die, eh?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_364000/364933.stm
# Lab-Grown Organs on Horizon? Livers and lungs growing in a petri dish
might seem the stuff of science fiction. But the discovery of a gene
that controls organ shape in roundworms could make human organ-growing
a reality. http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/20112.html
: What organs would you like to grow? Do you need any replacements? Would
you replace organs for functional or esthetic or random reasons? Any others?
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# Magnetic bracelets 'unproven'. (BBC) Suppliers of magnetic bracelets can't
prove their claims that they relieve pain, sez a (UK) gov't agency. Bogus:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_364000/364518.stm
# Soy Foods Reduce Risk Of Coronary Heart Disease. Two studies show the
powerful benefits of soy foods in the battle against cholesterol & heart
disease. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/06/990603091345.htm
# Spotlight on fruit benefits. (BBC) Scientists are to attempt to pin down
the exact health benefits of different types of fruit. An apple a day?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_365000/365196.stm
: Would you rather use devices and substances that do or don't work, that
are or aren't cool, that have or haven't been tested? What do the voices in
your head tell you? Do magnetic bracelets interfere with your alien implant?
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# Should hackers spend years in prison? Stiff penalties for computer tres-
passing could create a broad new class of criminal -- including you and
me. http://www.salon1999.com/tech/feature/1999/06/09/hacker_penalties/
# Feds batten down the online hatches - reacting to hacking:
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9906/09/batten.idg/index.html
# Insurgency on the Internet: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/specials/hackers/
: What is your favorite Net conspiracy? Have you attacked any sites lately?
Was it y'r own idea, or were you obeying your Reptilioid/Republican masters?
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# Researchers Pinpoint Thinking Pattern Of Chronic Self-Doubters. COLUMBUS,
Ohio. People with high levels of self-doubt have markedly different thinking
patterns than do individuals who harbor lower levels of self-doubt, a new
study shows. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/06/990609072350.htm
: Are you doubtful, chronically skeptical, insecure? Is this due to organic
brain dysfunction, drugs, alien implants, CIA mind-control rays, neorabies?
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# Stepping back 30,000 years. (BBC) French archaeologists say they've found
the oldest footprints ever left by modern man in a cave in central France -
result of a prehistoric slip-up. The 21cm (8.5 in) long prints are thought
to date as far back as 30,000 years and were left by a child tripping in
the mud. The prints were found during a study of the cave's many paintings.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_365000/365262.stm
@ Links: The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave:
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/chauvet/en/gvpda-d.htm
@ Meet the Ancestors: The Chauvet Cave:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/ancestors/chauvet.shtml
# And: Thieves loot prehistoric tomb:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_196000/196233.stm
# Foot fashion 6000 years BC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_125000/125213.stm
: Have ancient alien footprints been found? Are they being hidden? Who runs
the cover-up? Do aliens never trip in the mud? Do they get drunk? On what?
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SkeptiLinks:
# Digital satellite radio gets a boost - GM goes space-age:
http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/business/story/20103.html#radio
# Transplanted Neural Stem Cells Migrate Throughout Abnormal Brain, Reduce
Disease Symptoms: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/06/990609073135.htm
# Anti-Spammers Nuke E-Commerce - Realtime Blackhole List shoots own foot:
http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/20115.html
@ The Unauthorized Eckankar(tm) Page
http://www.inlink.com/~rife/eck_main.html
@ Mr. Papf's Perpetual Motion - by Richard Feynman:
http://www.indian-skeptic.de/html/fey1.htm
@ A Visit With Uri Geller - by Richard Feynman:
http://www.indian-skeptic.de/html/fey2.htm
@ Uri Geller Caught Red-Handed:
http://www.indian-skeptic.de/html/uritape.htm
@ SCIENCE VERSUS MIRACLES (tricks behind 150 miracles of famous gurus):
http://www.indian-skeptic.de/html/svm1.htm
# Hurricane Forecasters Continue To Call For Active Season;
Caribbean, Mexican Landfall Probabilities Predicted:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/06/990609072815.htm
# Scientists Prepare New York City For Climate Change - but why bother?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/06/990607072254.htm
# NASA Physicist Realizes Her Dreams By Discovering Two New Stars:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/06/990608163548.htm
# Gone But Not Forgotten: Bring Back North American Elephants:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/06/990607154315.htm
# Summer Swimsuit Research Flash: Thigh-Reducing Creams Don't Work:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/06/990607071500.htm
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I know it wasn't going to be one of my more enjoyable days when, as I was
getting behind the wheel of my Impala, Benny Wisniewski - aka Eunice Menko-
witz - slid in beside me and, jabbing the cavernous barrel of an overworked
.45 in my ribs, asked, "How's the vasectomy, toots?" --Eugene Jones, Jr.
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