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# 'Curtain' of bacteria to purify pollution. (BBC) Australian scientists aim
to clean up groundwater pollution with a "curtain" of bacteria that eat
toxins. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_460000/460070.stm
@ Links - Remediation background:
www.manufacturing.net/magazine/polleng/archives/1999/pol0301.99/039khf1.htm
@ CSIRO Groundwater studies: http://www.clw.csiro.au/cgs/research/assess.htm
@ Groundwater remediation: www.clw.csiro.au/research/remediation/organic/
: Will all pollution problems eventually be solved by engineering microbes
to devour toxins & exude desirable products? Will all manufacturing event-
ually entail engineered bacteria shitting finished goods? Is it inevitable?
# SEVENTY-YEAR ITCH - Gold Bond medicated foot powder an aphrodisiac?
http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/story/21990.html
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# French army aims at Apple's AirPort. (ZDNet) French buyers of the iBook's
wireless network could be staring down the barrel of a fine and jail. The
device uses the same 2.4-GHz wave band reserved by the French military,
meaning an iBook user surfing the Web near an army unit could end up
scrambling defense force communications. The penalties are severe. $30k,
6 mos - http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2343332,00.html
: Do you regularly interfere with military communications? Have they caught
you yet? Do you escape in your UFO? Is Apple anti-French? Is this a NetWar?
# Shock tactics for cheeky monkeys. (BBC) Monkeys that attack tourists in
a Japanese national park could be punished with electric shock treatment.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_461000/461119.stm
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@ Human Experiments at CIA. Summary / Final Report / Advisory Committee on
Human Radiation Experiments: http://visitations.com/mindnet/MN117.HTM
@ Tales From the Crypt: The Depraved Spies and Moguls of the CIA's Operation
MOCKINGBIRD - CIA Operation MOCKINGBIRD controls the media in connection
with the Mob. http://www.visitations.com/mindnet/MN118.HTM
: Has the CIA experimented on you lately? Did they learn anything, or were
they just having fun? Are you CIA? Are you depraved? Are you doubled? Why?
# 'How Much Is an Exploding Pen?' - Valley VCs to CIA: 'Huh?' So, the CIA
has initiated a venture capital project to develop info technology. The
traditional VC community can't stop laughing. Neither can the rest of us.
We dare not. http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/22004.html
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# Clone on the Range. Wisconsin biotech company claims its herd of cloned
cattle has grown to 37 and could be the largest in the world. And they're
all the same: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/092999/clone_herd.sml
# Most Canned Food Contaminated. BRUSSELS (Reuters) Research in 5 European
countries shows most canned food is contaminated by metal-coat varnish:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990929/12/science-belgium-contamination
: If one clone is contaminated, are they all? If one can is contaminated, do
you eschew canned food? How many uncontaminated clones are enough? Really??
# SHE MAKES JENNY CRAIG LOOK TUBBY. Three followers of New Age diet guru
Ellen Greve have died recently, and her no-eating ideas are being blamed.
Greve, who claims she hasn't had a bite of food in five years, says humans
can attain a higher spiritual state by starving themselves. Try it, eh?
www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/99/09/26/stinwenws02021.html?999
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# Five Hundred Years Young. Artifacts found with Canadian iceman are
about 550 years old, not thousands of years as first thought. Bother.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/092999/canadian_iceman.sml
# Pompeii wasn't the Marie C�leste of the ancient world, with boiled eggs
still on the table. Most people had cleared out. Those who remained are
an enigma: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v21/n18/bear2118.htm
: What's your favorite old enigma? Are old enigmae better than newer ones?
Are young enigmae boring? Are young icemen boring? Are you boring? How old?
# Bone to Pick. Montana fossils may challenge prevailing theories that first
mammals evolved in Asia. http://foxnews.com/scitech/092999/mammal_fossil.sml
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SkeptiBriefs:
# Cambodia's queen unveils newly restored 800-year-old library within the
ruins of Angkor: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/092999/angkorlibrary.sml
# CLOSE ENCOUNTER at World Wide UFO Rpt.Ctr: http://caus.org/pc092999.htm
# THE SEEDY SIDE OF THE FCC. A Federal Communications Commissioner accuses
his colleagues of conducting shakedowns & extortion to advance their agenda.
http://www.wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/politics/story/21985.html
@ Media create hysteria by promoting stories of ritual abuse based
on false memories. http://www.visitations.com/mindnet/MN119.HTM
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Y2K-a-Rama:
# Japan Pays for Blas� Y2K Plans. That bastion of the high-tech world
has been Y2K-dawdling. Some officials are getting antsy about it.
Bother. http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/21996.html
# DoD resold non-Y2K compliant computers, medical devices. The US Defense
Department donated or sold hundreds of thousands of computers, medical
devices & other electronic equipment to state & local agencies, hospitals
and other public institutions that could fail to operate because of Year
2000 problems. http://www.fcw.com/pubs/fcw/1999/0927/web-dod-09-28-99.html
# Fly Into 2000, If You Dare. The two biggest US air carriers foresee no
Y2K problems. Then again, United Airlines and American Airlines say
they don't have all the information they need about the rollover.
http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21987.html
# Y2K - 8 Of 10 Companies Expect No Major Woes:
http://www.sightings.com/politics4/nowoe.htm
# Y2K Coverage: http://www.wired.com/news/news/ytwok/
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