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# Machines to help sequence genes. WASHINGTON (AP) New machines will enable
the Dept. of Energy to triple its speed in decoding human genes and should
enable the agency to reach its goal of sequencing 300 million base pairs
of DNA by March. Elbert Branscomb, director of the dept's Joint Genome
Institute, said 24 new DNA sequencer machines coming to its Walnut Creek,
Calif., lab will enable the agency to increase the number of base pairs
processed monthly from about 5 million to about 15 million. 12 machines
are already operating and another dozen are expected soon. THEN they'll be
cooking: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559936105-ef7
: Do you want your genes sequenced? Are yours out of sequence? Can/should
yours be sorted, resequenced, replicated, leaked? Do you own your own genes?
Can/should/will your genes be patented? If someone else owns your genes and
you damage them, can you be sued/prosecuted? Do you have any secrets left?
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# 2000 may fuel Jerusalem Syndrome. JERUSALEM(AP) Jerusalem Syndrome strikes
with little warning. After a few days in the holy city, seemingly normal
pilgrims imagine they're biblical figures, sing psalms at the top of their
lungs, preach to passersby or dress up in hotel bedsheets. Jerusalem cler-
gymen and officials confabbed to discuss ways to spot and deal with the
mental illness, which one psychiatrist says may strike as many as one in
100 pilgrims and disrupt Jesus' 2000th birthday celebrations. Protestants
are more vulnerable, apparently because their beliefs are less structured
than those of the Catholics, Monsignor Richard Mathes, the Vatican's cult-
ural attache in Israel, said. The only cure is a prefrontal lobotomy or
oral sex: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559934479-a69
: Which biblical figure do you most wish to be? Are you a reincarnation of
that person? Have you ever channeled a saint? What color sheet do you wear?
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# Keeping an eye on Close Encounters - He's seen the radiation burns and
hair fall out. He's documented the paralysis and fried corneas. In more
than 400 cases, John Schuessler has recorded evidence of physical injury
by people who claimed they have had close encounters with UFOs. Unpretty:
http://www.spokane.net/news-story-body.asp?Date=060699&ID=s589805&cat=
: Have you ever had a close encounter? Have you been physically injured, or
emotionally scarred, or morally impaired? Did they suck the plasma from you?
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# Biggest mummy burial grounds discovered in western Egypt - Archaeologists
found an early Greco-Roman burial ground thought to hold at least 10,000
mummies, the largest such find to date. Diggers have so far unearthed 200
mummies, including some of the wealthy and powerful of 3,000 years ago.
You can't take it with you: www.hotcoco.com/news/wrldfront/kjm16657.htm
# Ruins Under Wal-Mart - A construction site across from an ancient Arizona
Indian ruin may also contain artifacts underneath, so Wal-Mart has put off
building a new store on the land while they acquire European retailers.
www.abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/ruins_walmart990608.html
: What's your favorite archaeological dig? What did you find there? Has your
discovery brought you wealth and fame, or are you bitter at fate? Why not?
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# Those Impossible Dinosaurs. Were the dinosaurs too big to carry their own
weight under present gravity? Did they have Richard Simmons or Jenny Craig
around? http://www.xnewsnetwork.com/Headlines/Dinosaurs/dinosaurs.html
# The Electric Sun. New challenge to the fusion theory could change our
understanding of the sun. Or maybe we just made a dumb mistake with the
math: http://www.xnewsnetwork.com/Headlines/ElectricSun/electricsun.html
# Faster than the Speed of Light. Is the speed of light the absolute limit?
Scientists find evidence to the contrary. RoboCop issues speeding tickets.
Tell it Judge Judy: www.xnewsnetwork.com/Headlines/BeyondC/beyondc.html
: What's your favorite piece of scientific revisionism? Is your contention
supported by the preponderance of data, or do you depend on hunches? Why?
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SkeptiBriefs:
# Computer virus spreads. NEW YORK(AP) Proving even more virulent than first
thought, the computer bug Worm.Explore.Zip sprang back from a deceptively
quiet weekend amid warnings that it uses more than just e-mail trickery to
spread. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559935815-ccc
# IBM chief warns on hasty regulation. WASHINGTON (AP) - IBM Chairman Louis
Gerstner warned Congress against hastily enacting legislation to govern
fast-changing tech.industries, saying that policies rushed into place now
could become obsolete quickly. Then he rapidly evolved into a cyborg and
vanished. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559934152-5bc
# Is NutraSweet Making Young People More Violent? Researchers link aspartame
to lowered serotonin levels, resulting in violent behavior. Triggered by
PacMan: http://www.xnewsnetwork.com/Headlines/Aspartame/aspartame.html
# UC Irvine settling fertility suits. IRVINE Calif. (AP) U. of Calif. will
pay US$20 mln to settle most lawsuits tied to a fertility clinic scandal.
The cases involve allegations that two UCI MDs misused or lost embryos and
eggs from dozens of couples who went to their clinics from 1986 to 1995.
Fucked: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559942907-029
# Bank apologizes for Robertson ties. EDINBURGH (AP) - The Bank of Scotland
apologized to shareholders for getting involved in a business deal with US
religious broadcaster Pat Robertson. The bank canceled a deal to launch a
telephone banking service with Robertson after he referred to Scotland as
"a rather dark land" because it tolerates gay people. "We recognize that
the bank's involvement was a mistake," Sir John Shaw, the bank's newly
elected governor, told shareholders at the annual meeting. Shaw said the
bank was "naive" not to realize Robertson's opinions would cause concern.
Who's sorry now? www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559944491-160
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bedroom carrying her ferns and his Don Ho albums, and felt a cold chill
go up his spine as he realized that he did not know how to operate the
microwave oven." --Lucian Janik, Jr.
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