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# Stress makes baby girls likelier. (BBC) People who suffer severe emotional
stress around the time they conceive a baby are more likely to parent a
girl: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_431000/431219.stm
: What are the implications of stress-makes-girls? Are population gender im-
balances signs of too much stress? Are you stressed by people, aliens, me?
Do ETs deliberately stress humanity to get the gender mix they prefer? How?
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# GENE THERAPY - A REVOLUTION IN HEALING. In 1990, a 4-year-old girl with a
form of severe combined immunodeficiency disease (SCID) became the first
person to undergo gene therapy -- the transplantation of genes into cells
to treat or even prevent disease in people. Fervor erupted over early gene
therapy trials: http://cnn.com/HEALTH/mayo/9908/26/gene.therapy/index.html
# 'Scientists started Aids epidemic'. (BBC) A polio vaccine using tissue
from primates could have been behind the leap made by the human immuno-
deficiency virus [HIV] from apes and moneys to humans, a new book claims.
Oops: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_431000/431167.stm
# Scientists develop plague vaccine. LONDON (AP) UK govt scientists have
developed a vaccine against bubonic plague to help protect military
troops from biological warfare. The vaccine is in a "particularly
advanced stage" of development and is ready to be tested on humans.
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560882925-6eb
: What's your favorite therapy? Have you developed any therapies lately? Are
there unforseen side-effects? Have you accidentally started a plague? Which?
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# Water found in meteorite. (BBC) Scientists have made the first discovery
of liquid water in a meteorite that fell to Earth over Texas in 1998. Ker-
splash: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_431000/431496.stm
# Scientists examine meteorite water. WASHINGTON (AP) Scientists who cracked
open a meteorite that fell to earth last year found tiny pockets of briny
water, providing the first close look at water not originating on earth.
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560887782-445
: Are you excited about the discovery of fossilized Reptilioid piss? Will a
superior beer or ale result from this discovery? Are Australians thrilled??
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# Impressive debut for Chandra. (BBC) The first stunning pictures from the
new Chandra X-ray observatory are made public. Better eyes than Superman:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_431000/431168.st
@ Image: http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9908/26/chandra.01/cassiopeia.large.jpg
@ Sites: Chandra X-ray telescope: http://www.xraytelescope.com/
@ Harvard-Smithsonian Chandra Center: http://chandra.harvard.edu/
@ NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory News: http://chandra.nasa.gov/
# FIRST CHANDRA IMAGES SHOW STELLAR EXPLOSION, X-RAY JET. A gigantic stellar
explosion with maybe a neutron star or black hole at its center is one of
the first crisp offerings of NASA's newest space telescope. Another image
shows a powerful X-ray jet blasting 200,000 light years into intergalactic
space from a distant quasar. The images prove NASA's $1.5 billion Chandra
X-ray Observatory is in excellent health, its instruments and optics
performing well. http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9908/26/chandra.01/index.html
: What're your favorite XRays, black holes, neutron stars? Do you have pix?
Did you XRay a Reptilioid lately? What are they like inside? Are they hot??
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# Mir cosmonauts in final checks. (BBC) The crew of Russia's Mir space
station are spending their last day on board the ageing craft before
leaving it to fly unmanned around the Earth, engines sputtering.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_431000/431119.stm
# Farewell to Mir. (BBC) Looking back over 14 eventful years of the Mir:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_431000/431556.stm
# Sharman Reflects. Briton Helen Sharman recalls her flight to Mir in 1991.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_431000/431039.stm
# Mir: A timeline. Mir was supposed to remain in space for just five years.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_62000/62716.stm
: Will you miss Mir? Will Mir miss you? Where will it crash? Will it be hij-
acked? Who'll steal Mir? What will they do with it? D'ya wanna run Mir? Is
it a good platform for beaming mind-control rays at Earth? Is it cozy? Yah?
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Waco-A-Rama:
# FBI/Waco: http://www.apbonline.com/911/1999/08/25/fbi0825_01.html
@ Waco Burns: http://www.kreative.net/carolmoore/waco-news.html
@ Evidence? http://www.flash.net/~wyla/bdtt_toc/01a-900.htm#830
@ FBI Tank Attack: http://www.kreative.net/carolmoore/TDM-11.html
@ Mount Carmel Survivors' Web page: http://start.at/mt.carmel
# Gas grenades fired six hours before compound burned:
http://dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/0824tsw1teargas.htm
http://dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/0824tsw1gasgrafic.htm
http://dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/0825tsw1teargas.htm
# Janet Reno faces the press, sweats:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/aug99/reno26.htm
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560889124-b54
# Military provided advice at Waco - SpecOps observors just watched:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560884666-0c6
# Congress determined to root around for details:
http://www.dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/0826tsw1davidians.htm
# Official disputes FBI account of Davidian fire:
http://dallasnews.com/texas_southwest/0728tsw100davidians.htm
@ In Memory: http://harvest-trust.org/
@ Waco Massacre: http://216.221.173.225/
@ Davidian Massacre: http://www.cia.com.au/serendipity/waco/moore3.html
@ DAVIDIAN MASSACRE: http://kreative.net/carolmoore/davidian-massacre.html
@ Waco Pictorial Essay: http://www.illusions.com/opf/wacoind.htm
@ Waco Holocaust Museum: http://monumental.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/
@ Mt. Carmel: http://start.at/mt.carmel
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