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# County Bars Bid To Stage Naked Macbeth. SANFORD, Fla. (Reuters) County
commissioners in Florida did not mind that a local nightclub was serving
up eye of newt, toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog. What they did
object to was that the 3 witches in a version of Shakespeare's "Macbeth"
were played by naked dancers. The club has already staged several perfor-
mances of a revue, "Les Femmes Fatales, featuring the witch scene, a sword
dance and excerpts from the Marquis de Sade's "Philosophy in the Bedroom."
Boffing the Bard: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990623/22/odd-shakespeare
: Do you prefer to portray mystical rituals whilst clothed, unclothed, dead,
undead, sane, unsane? Would you like an eye of newt in your cocktail? Yeah?
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# NEW ALTERNATIVE TO ANIMAL TESTS. A new test using faux skin may spare many
lab animals that would normally be required for chemical skin tests. What
fun? http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/20364.html
# A BETTER LOOK AT HEART DISEASE. A new, noninvasive diagnostic tool for
coronary artery disease could replace conventional angiograms. Patients
breathe a sigh of relief, return to scarfing down cheeseburgers and french
fries: http://wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/20365.html
Also: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_374000/374723.stm
: Do you prefer invasive tests? Are you masochistic, sadistic? Do you prefer
to test humans, animals, aliens? Should chemical skin tests be performed on
rabbits, mice, lawyers, UFOlogists, priests? Is coronary disease efficient?
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# Women's choice of men goes in cycles. (BBC) Women are attracted to more
masculine-looking men at the most fertile time of their menstrual cycle.
During the less fertile times, they choose men with more feminine-looking
faces. These are seen as kinder and more co-operative, but less strong and
healthy genetically. A controversial implication of the new research is
that, in evolutionary terms, it is natural for a woman to be unfaithful in
order to secure both the best genes and the best caregiver for her young.
This is because a less masculine-looking man may be a better long-term
partner, but the strongest, healthiest children would be produced by a
quick fling with a more masculine-looking man. Studly or nurturing:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_376000/376321.stm
@ Links: Face preference experiment: http://monty.st-and.ac.uk/
@ Perception Laboratory - St Andrews University:
http://psych.st-and.ac.uk:8080/research/perception_lab/
: Should moral codes be rewritten to accommodate reality? Were your moral
codes devised by evolution, deities, humans, aliens, machines? Are you hot?
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@ Group 13. THIRTEEN: It is the number with the most occult significance.
Throughout Europe it has historically been regarded as an ill omen. In
Norse mythology, the number 13 often signifies death. Today, in the UK,
there exists a paramilitary unit called Group 13. The sole purpose of this
ultra secretive unit is deniable assassination as it operates in the world
of shadows. So little is known about them, that it is exceptionally hard
to document its activities with any certainty. A former intelligence agent
tells us the truth: http://www.copi.com/articles/Group13.html
: Should assassinations be secret, well-publicized, trivial, attributable,
deniable? Who would you like to assassinate? Will you let them know first?
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# Assassin's Perch To Go Live On Net. DALLAS (Reuters) - The view from the
"sniper's perch" of presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald will go world-
wide via Internet live camera. The Dealey Plaza Cam (www.earthcam.com/jfk)
will broadcast on the Internet from a sixth floor window of the former
Texas Book Depository in Dallas, where Oswald fired the shots that killed
President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. Stage your own virtual
re-enactment: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990624/08/odd-internet-kennedy
: Would you rather see webcams aimed at sites of assassinations, seductions,
alien abductions, transfigurations, conspiratorial confabs, sporting events?
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@ Toward the Total State. Has the Left won America's culture war? Some obs-
ervers think so. For many Americans who cherish our nation's traditions of
individual freedom, limited government, and personal moral responsibility,
the Clinton impeachment melodrama abounded in evidence that America has
undergone a dramatic transformation. Plot to destroy cultural values:
http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1999/07-05-99/vo15no14_total.htm
: What cultures would you like to destroy? Would you attack their values,
gurus, infrastructures, food/water supplies, belief systems, sports arenas?
Do cultures evolve under stress? Is your culture evolving? Are you? How?
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# Phone Antennae To Be Installed In Churches. BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's
Catholic Church has blessed to a plan for mobile phone companies to place
antennae in church towers. The Church said it did not want to pass up the
chance to collect one million forints ($4,150) per year in rent for each
antenna. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990623/12/odd-church
: Would you like to phone God? How much would you charge to desecrate your
holy places? If an antenna-installed spire were damaged by an Act of God,
who would the phone company sue? Will lightning strikes be messages? Yeah?
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SkeptiLinks:
@ Joe Firmage again: http://www.TheWordIsTruth.org/letter.htm
and yet again: http://www.TheWordIsTruth.org/redherring.htm
# China steals U.S. nuclear, missile secrets - The Cox Report:
http://apbonline.com/majorcases/china/documents/cox/html/cont/gncont.html
# OPERATION TANGLED MESS - US Defense Dept strangled by net infrastructure:
http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/politics/story/20368.html
$ InTERRORgation: The CIA's Secret Manual on Coercive Questioning:
Magazine format, 56 pages, $5.95. http://parascope.com/interrorgation/
* ITALY VOLCANO: MT. ETNA: http://www.geo.mtu.edu/~boris/STROMBOLI.html
* MT. POPOCATEPETL: http://www.cenapred.unam.mx/cgi-bin/popo/mvolcan.cgi
$ Y2K Disaster Preparedness Center: http://parascope.com/parastore/y2k.htm
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