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# DISCOVERY NET PLANS LIVE ECLIPSE COVERAGE. The Discovery Network plans 3
hours of live TV coverage of something Mom warned you never to look at
directly -- a solar eclipse. The cable channel's cameras will follow the
60-mile wide path where Sol is totally obscured by Luna, from its start in
southern England, thru France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania to the
Middle East & its conclusion in India. May be the most detailed eclipse
coverage ever: http://cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/TV/9908/06/eclipse.tv.ap/index.html
: Would you rather view the eclipse in one spot in person, continuously in a
space- or air-craft, or continuously/virtually via TV or virtual reality? Do
the Reptilioids plan to absorb all those who experience the eclipse? How??
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# Top Muslim cleric prohibits looking at sun during eclipse. BEIRUT, Lebanon
(AP) A senior Shiite Muslim cleric issued a religious edict prohibiting his
followers from looking at the sun during Wednesday's total solar eclipse.
Sheik Mohammed Mehdi Shamseddin said watching the event is contrary to
Islamic law. http://www.foxnews.com/news/wires2/0806/n_ap_0806_261.sml
: Does your belief system prescribe/proscribe observational activities? How
detailed are your holy laws? If you avoid watching eclipses will you escape
being harvested by aliens? Do disobedient unbelievers deserve harvesting??
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@ THE GENTLE SURVIVALIST. When holistic hankerings meet millennial anxiety,
you get The Gentle Survivalist newsletter. Generally, it covers the kind
of things less charitable types might call "New Age-y." Sez the mission
statement, "TGS respects and supports all efforts to throw material and
emotional ballast overboard; to live lives of simplicity, dedicated focus,
and joy. Although our interests are all-encompassing, we shun all forms of
darkness, substances, and media bombardment that would pollute our inner
natures and erode the spiritual progress we have achieved thus far." So
there's discussion about nature-based Y2K preparedness, including how to
forage for food and store water and wheat. http://infowest.com/gentle
: Would you rather survive holistically, technologically, militarily, trium-
phantly, spiritually, randomly? Have you achieved spiritual progress? Does
it show? Are your inner resources polluted? Is simplicity a dead-end? Why??
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Hiroshima-a-Rama:
Photos of the Century - A column of smoke billows 20,000 feet...
http://www.activedayton.com/news/1999/photo1.html
Events leading up to the Hiroshima A-Bombing (1945)
http://www.city.hiroshima.jp/C/City/ABombDamage/events.html
History of the Radiation Effects Research Foundation
http://www.rerf.or.jp/eigo/historic/histtoc.htm
The Atomic Bomb - Truman's Decision
http://www.pomperaug.com/socstud/stumuseum/web/msrhome.htm
The Bombing of Hiroshima - Revisionist History
http://corax.org/revisionism/misc/ar/hiroshima.html
The Fascinating Story of the Bomb Stamp
http://www.intermountain.com/~mccore/bombstory.html
The Costs of the Manhattan Project
http://www.brook.edu/FP/PROJECTS/NUCWCOST/MANHATTN.HTM
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# PSYCHIATRIC SYMPTOMS AND DISABILITY IDENTIFIED IN BOSNIAN WAR REFUGEES.
A study of Bosnian refugees in a refugee camp shows those demonstrating
psychiatric symptoms had increased risk for disability.
http://psychiatry.medscape.com/10796.rhtml
# WAR AND HEALTH IN BOSNIA AND KOSOVO. Despite a century of technologic pro-
gress, war and political violence continue to undermine health and well-
being worldwide. Today, 90 percent of war-related deaths are civilians.
http://psychiatry.medscape.com/10797.rhtml
: Do our alien masters prefer to harvest traumatized humans? Would ya rather
traumatize humans, aliens, animals, vegetable, minerals, robots, me? How??
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@ ART AND CONSCIOUSNESS (thanks, Gene) Art and consciousness relationships
are discussed from both a theoretical viewpoint and by psychobiograpical
analysis. A special edition of the Journal of Consciousness Studies is
devoted these issues. http://www.imprint.co.uk/art/jcsmainframe.html
: Are you artistic? Are you conscious? Do you consciously create artistic
crop circles, saucerian events, alien manifestations? Is art a disease??
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# Fingerprint of Life - Scientists Find Direct Evidence of Ancient Bacteria.
NEW YORK (Fox) Earth was hardly a hospitable place more than three billion
years ago. Geologic records suggest the skies were constantly cloudy, the
air was thick with noxious gasses, a shallow layer of watery muck covered
the ground and volcanoes erupted on a frequent basis.
: Is that any worse than a smoggy day in Mexico City, Tokyo, Los Angeles?
Aren't New Jersey, Chernobyl, Slovakia even less hospitable to human life?
Nonetheless, scientists have long suspected life existed in this hostile
environment. Finding solid evidence to support these suspicions, however,
has been a problem. In a new study that may greatly accelerate the under-
standing of early life on Earth, geologists have isolated a biomarker - a
molecule unique to a certain life form - capable of surviving billions of
years in rock. By testing for the biomarker's presence in ancient rocks,
scientists can learn with unprecedented accuracy whether they contain the
remains of early bacteria. http://foxnews.com/scitech/080599/fossil.sml
: Did the deities/aliens who created terrestrial life seed Earth with clues
to make us conclude it evolved naturally? Why the disinformation campaign?
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mound of fire ants, had a brush with poison ivy, and faced a terrifying
encounter with the Forest Ranger's vicious beagle, Muffin."
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