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@ IRAAP: INDEPENDENT RESEARCHERS' ASSOCIATION for ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA.
Be sure to check out the following items in the news archives:
FURBY SUICIDE - Furbies Check Out en masse
THE 10 COMMANDMENTS OF COVER-UP
And their latest e-newspaper: The IRAAP Messenger
http://www.albany.net/~rwcecot/iraap/home.htm
: Do you welcome mass suicides of Furbys? Who organized this doomsday cult?
Do you have guidelines for coverups, debunking, agitprop, disinfo, orgasms?
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# Paralysis 'cure' promised. A treatment for people paralysed by spinal cord
injuries could be available in about a decade, says a leading scientist.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_394000/394454.stm
@ Links: U.Massachusetts Medical Centre http://www.ummed.edu/
@ Cure Paralysis http://www.cureparalysis.org/
@ US Spinal Cord Injury Association Factsheets:
http://www.spinalcord.org/resource/Factsheets/Factsheets.htm
: Would you rather be: paralyzed; 'cured' in your old body; transplanted in-
to a new human body; turned into a CyBorg; spiritized, transcending the mere
material plane; abducted by aliens for experimentation; fed to crocodiles??
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# Dr. Robot, Report to the OR. A new heart surgery procedure using remote-
controlled robotics could help heart surgery patients to heal faster and
feel less pain. http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/20711.html
@ Links: East Carolina University School of Medicine http://www.ecu.edu/
@ Intuitive Surgical http://www.intuitivesurgical.com/
@ Computer Motion http://www.computermotion.com/
@ Ohio State University Medical Center. http://www.osumedcenter.edu/
: Do you trust robots? Would a heartless heart surgeon emphasize with you?
Would you rather be sculpted by macro- or nano-robots? Does prayer heal??
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# Cigarettes 'engineered' for addiction. Tobacco manufacturers have been
accused of adding substances to cigarets to increase their addictiveness.
Fiendish: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_393000/393075.stm
@ Links: Imperial Cancer Research Fund: http://www.icnet.uk/
@ Additives in Tobacco: http://www.ash.org.uk/papers/additives.html
@ Action on Smoking and Health: http://www.ash.org.uk/
@ Tobacco Manufacturers' Association: http://www.the-tma.org.uk/
: Why are crop circles never found in tobacco fields? Do nicotine druglords
collaborate with aliens to engineer their toxins? Are you addicted? Happily?
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# Cracking on the Rise. The rate at which crackers broke into corporate
networks nearly doubled last year, a new survey finds. Not surprisingly,
e-commerce companies are the top victims. Go where the money is, eh?
http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/20704.html
# FBI Warns of Crypto Danger. US law enforcers try to halt legislation that
would allow US companies to export encryption. The House is sympathetic,
but they've lined up squarely on the side of tech companies. Money again.
http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/20714.html
: Are uncrackable crypto, uncrackable systems, possible? If hackers crack
corporate systems faster than FBI cracks commercial crypto, who'd you hire?
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SkeptiLinks:
# China testing stealth ship - ready to sneak up on Taiwan:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560271878-c96
# Smithsonian Air/Space Museum head dies in motoglider crash:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560277408-c52
# Greek Orthodox church delays ruling - won't sack US Archbishop yet:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560272458-a55
# 'Web Seance' Summons Art - "I can feel the power in me!"
http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/20726.html
# UN Proposes Global Email Tax - fund Net development in 3rd world:
http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/20705.html
# Obesity and blue-collar work associated with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome:
http://cnn.com/HEALTH/9907/13/carpal.tunnel/index.html
# Y2K Computer Viruses: http://www.csis.org/html/y2kw9.html
# FIRST Y2K SUICIDE. It's the 1st real-live - make that real-dead - casualty
of the glitch. http://www.y2kculture.com/reactions/19990712.suicide.html
# US DoD says it's Y2K-OK - except maybe for logistics, personnel, the
mundane: http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/20723.html
# Son of Sam! Exposes his connection to Satanic Church of Sacrifice!
http://www.theeunderground.net/Features/features131sonofsam.shtml
# McVeigh moved to federal death row - will sweat it out for decades:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560275954-50a
# Ala. school prayer ruling thrown out - let the little buggers pray:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560276836-fe5
# IRANIANS RALLY FOR CLERICAL LEADERSHIP. "Death to America" -
see http://cnn.com/WORLD/meast/9907/14/BC-IRAN-RALLY.reut/
# Iran reformers, hard-liners clash - thousands protest regime:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560274030-654
# Also: Protests crossroads for Iran - end of Islamic republic?
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560272599-fd4
# And: A look at demonstrations in Iran - revolution on the run:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560273552-89e
# Student Unrest May Give Leverage to Iran's Conservatives:
http://www.stratfor.com/MEAF/commentary/9907132110.htm
# Court blocks deportation in genital mutilation case:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560272687-703
# US Gov't to study biotech crops - Frankenfood is good for you!
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560273463-f41
# CIA: Far fewer GulfWar vets than previously thought were exposed to nerve
gas in Iraq: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560274617-49f
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