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@ Web That Smut! http://reality.sgi.com/mende_corp/web-that-smut.html
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# Thousands Watch Huge 'City In The Sky' UFO. (PRA) It was about 200 metres
long, 50 metres wide and was lit up like a city in the sky. It moved very
slowly across the sky, making a quiet puffing noise. This is the descrip-
tion of what thousands of people on the Gazelle Peninsula of East New
Britain saw in the sky: http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/enbufo_u.htm
: Have you seen any cities in the sky lately? Do they have antigravity? Do
they drop trash on you? Do leapers plummet from the parapets? Do they glow?
# The American Dream, a home filled with all the gee-gaws we love,
is a hedonism financed by consumer debt. Should this worry us?
http://www.reasonmag.com/9911/bk.jt.charge.html
# INUIT STUDIES. Students at Canada's Nunavut Arctic College hunt
for seals, and for remnants of their once-nomadic culture.
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v46/i13/13b00401.htm
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# Scientists Make Nanostructures Build Themselves. Researchers have created
ultrasmall plastic structures via a cheap, versatile method. The discovery
yields surprising insights into the behavior of materials at very small
scales, while spawning many basic research questions. It also could pave
the way to a new generation of miniature products, from computer memory
chips and video components to devices for sorting DNA molecules.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/11/991119080041.htm
: Do you want your DNA sorted? Do you prefer bubble, shell, insertion sorts?
Should your DNA be put on a chip? D'ya wanna reproduce electronically? Why?
# Clifford Stoll has found an excellent new use for his computer as a
goldfish bowl. Far more valuable than using the machine in the classroom:
http://www.thestandard.com/articles/display/0,1449,7426,00.html
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@ The Incredible Journey Of Jane Lead - 17th Century Abductee? Jane Lead's
visions, by their high strangeness & references to themes later touched
upon by those who claim to have been taken aboard UFOs, indicate that at
least a similar mental process was at work. She visited the inhabitants of
the "Magia-School" which was, she said, "the Scene of another World." Jane
Lead saw a golden flying machine; robots ("living statues"); a suited fig-
ure flying in the sky; the Frankenstein-like vivification of an artificial
body; a "thunderbolt-shaped stone," perhaps a robotic probe; child-like
beings that moved with superhuman quickness; a "star" on which she rode &
an "eye"in which people lived and traveled. And she left a sketch of this
aerial "eye" that is a perfect likeness of a flame-emitting, lenticular
craft. Finally, and most remarkable of all, Jane Lead tells of a future
time when these otherworldly beings and their descendants shall be
recognized by everyone. http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/lead.htm
: Have aliens or timetravelers visited selected humans over the centuries?
Do they leave unmistakable traces? Are you such an entity? Are you tired??
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Faith-o-Rama:
# Israel may ask pope to OK fire exit in Holy Sepulcher - Churches say
new door will disrupt ancient status quo - OK then, let'em burn, right?
Ya, sure: http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,130008676,00.html
: Do deities protect their holy sites from disasters? Are they successful?
# Russian patriarch flays foreign missionaries - They use psychedelic
drugs to recruit, he accuses - Well, it works better than sacramental
wine, eh? http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,130009225,00.html
: Do you use LSD to convert Russians, Indians, Chinese? Does it work well?
# Dieters relying on prayer to help shed their pounds - Some fat Xians think
they can slim down by concentrating on their relationship with God. Bloat-
ed with evil: http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,130009226,00.html
: Does praying burn enough calories to offset those Twinkies you gobbled??
# China blasts U.S. resolution on Falun Gong - 'Interference in our
internal affairs:' http://cnn.com/ASIANOW/east/9911/20/falun.gong/
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# Could a clone ever run for president? Dolly is out, but how about "All the
way with a cloned L.B.J."? (TIME) Sure, why not? Scientists used to think
it would be difficult to clone an animal as complex as a mammal, but Dolly
the sheep neatly demolished that theory. If you can clone a sheep, a human
isn't much tougher. Whether it is ethical to do so is another matter, and
in fact human cloning has been outlawed in a number of countries & states.
But illegal or not, someone's going to do it--and having been conceived by
a convicted felon is no bar to public office. But, are all politicians
clones already? http://cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/time/1999/11/01/clone.html
: Would you vote for a cloned-but-genetically-improved Dan Quayle, Bob/Liddy
Dole, Hilary Clinton, F.D.R.? Are Bushes & Kennedys already cloned? Should
all presidents have clones made as backups in case they're assassinated??
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SkeptiLinks:
# Y2K - More Disturbing News On The US Power Grid:
http://www.sightings.com/politics5/y2kgrid.htm
# Y2K - US Officials Predict No Food Shortages:
http://www.sightings.com/politics5/y2kfd.htm
$ Bug-Eating Flora: http://www.californiacarnivores.com/
$ Emergency Food Supplies: http://cyberstage.net/survival.html
# Ritalin & Cancer: http://sightings.com/health3/ritandcancer.htm
@ Earth Alert: http://www.discovery.com/news/earthalert/earthalert.html
# Methanol And Aspartame - Bad News:
http://www.sightings.com/health3/badnews.htm
# The Addictive Side Of Aspartame Consumption:
http://www.sightings.com/health3/adside.htm
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