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@ Garden of Origami: http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~vbeatty/origami/
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# Health secrets in ancient Egyptian eye shadow. PARIS (CNN) -- In ancient
Egypt, everyone wore eye make up -- men, women and children of all castes.
Scientists now think the cosmetics may have had as much to do with health
as with beauty or style. Egyptologists & chemists came to that conclusion
after analyzing the Louvre's collection of 4,000-year-old pots once used
in Egyptian makeup kits. They found chemical compounds that were used
thousands of years later by the Greeks and Romans to treat infectious
eye diseases. http://cnn.com/STYLE/9909/22/eygptian.eyes/index.html
: Do you use cosmetics for medical purposes, drugs for cosmetic purposes?
Does heroin keep you attractively slender? Does your makeup prevent AIDS?
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# Soccer Team Unveils 'Official Condom'. COVENTRY, UK (Reuters) Coventry
City have become the first English premier league side to launch an
official club condom. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990924/10/odd-condom
: Do all belief systems [religious, economic, political, artistic, athletic]
require official condoms? Should you be safely fucked by your beliefs? How?
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# New "Magic Hula" just might cure what ails you. SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) -
This isn't your parents' HulaHoop. A South Korean entrepreneur has updated
the classic toy, adding small molded knobs to the inside edge of the ring,
aimed at providing a mini-massage and supposed therapeutic effects. ShaKE
iT BabY, YEeeAh!: http://cnn.com/ASIANOW/east/9909/16/fringe/magic.hoop/
: Do you put magnets inside your Hula-Hoops for medicinal/sexual purposes?
What are the latest medical advances in toys? Have you cured your acne yet?
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# MORE THAN 6 BILLION SERVED. Mother Nature will soon have more than
6 billion mouths to feed. Agricultural technology is improving, but
food production is falling. Still, not everybody's worried. Except
me, maybe. http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/21927.html
: Are you healthy, wealthy, wise, well-fed? Will you continue to be into the
indefinite future? Will anyone else? How? Magic? Tech? Divine intervention?
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# Husband And Wife Decide To Change Sex. BUDAPEST (Reuters) A Hungarian
husband and wife have decided literally to trade places and each is now
undergoing a sex change operation at the local hospital. Confused? Well,
THEY aren't. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990924/10/odd-sexchange
: When will transgenderism become routine, mandatory? Can you be a complete
person if you haven't been all genders, all races, several varied species?
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# THE 'ARCOLOGY' OF CYBERSPACE. Architect Paolo Soleri reprises his Paradox
conference at the Arcosanti project space. Participants hope less fur will
fly this year. http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/21920.html
: Would you like to restructure cyberspace, problem space, mental space? Do
you have any experience messing up spaces? Have you ruined much space yet??
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# Entrepreneurs study space tourism. LOS ANGELES (AP) Space, tourism's final
frontier. As NASA builds the international space station high above Earth,
private lodging & travel companies are taking a serious look at orbiting
hotels etc. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561288044-d50
: How many prostitutes would a free-fall or low-gravity hotel/resort need?
How fast would they wear out? How much will you pay for sex in space? When?
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SkeptiLinks:
# Arafat to UN: back Palestine independence - UN mumbles something:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561301919-644
@ Geronimo captured: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/geronimo/geronixx.htm
@ BraveNewChina - eugenics redux: http://christianity.net/bc/9B5/9B5028.html
@ US Naval Observatory: http://www.usno.navy.mil/
# Alien Earths - Have our planet's alter egos popped up in outer space?
http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990925/newsstory8.html
# High lights - Superflares may point the way to distant solar systems:
http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990925/newsstory9.html
@ Understanding Color: http://library.advanced.org/50065/colorj/
# Mean machines - New efficient turbines will slash greenhouse emissions:
http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990925/newsstory5.html
# False trails - You can't tell a dinosaur from its tracks:
http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990925/newsstory6.html
@ The Van Gogh Museum: http://209.249.169.110/ehp.html
# Dutch museum hopes to quash rumors - real Van Goghs, not fakes:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561294654-a23
# Also: alleged Van Gogh paintings, the most controversial - see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561294817-4d1
# Big hunk of Berlin Wall dedicated - Virginia reactionaries gloat:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561296018-16b
@ Psychology of obsession: http://www.pottymouth.org/humor/stalking.html
@ Buckminster Fuller: (8pg) http://www.cruzio.com/~devarco/nature.htm
@ Invisible Worlds EDGARspace: http://edgar.space.invisible.net/
@ Confessions: http://www.wench.com/features/penthouse/index.html
@ Folklore & Mythology eTexts: http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html
@ Encyclopedia of the Orient: http://i-cias.com/e.o/index.htm
@ Confucius: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atlantis/1564/cframe.html
@ William Edward Boeing: http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/aerojava/boeing.htm
@ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: www.english.udel.edu/swilson/mws/mws.html
@ Medicinal Herbs Website: http://library.advanced.org/25411/
# Space healing - Why NASA is treating wounds with light:
http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990925/newsstory11.html
# Hydrotherapy - A leisurely soak could work wonders for diabetics:
http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990925/newsstory12.html
# A question of abuse - Cocaine could be behind some deaths in custody:
http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990925/newsstory1.html
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