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@ The rise & fall of a legendary SF troupe: http://www.cockettes.com/
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# Privacy for None, Genetic Justice for All - The Marker of a Criminal.
(Wired) You don't need a rap sheet for police to know all about you. A
simple tissue sample can identify your race, sex, and family members.
Innocent or not, the wrong DNA cells could land you in a jail cell.
Scan http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,32626,00.html
: Will you counterfeit your genetic material to commit perfect crimes? Do
you have the wrong DNA? Were you framed? Is justice obsolete, irrelevant?
@ How thoughtful of the folks at the NY Times to have an ethicist to help
us with life's moral decisions. http://reason.com/9912/co.jl.the.html
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# Daylight Sighting Of Silver Cigar UFO Near San Diego. Brief description:
Saw a cigar-shaped silver metallic object move slowly from N to S, then
turn transparent & disappear. Brief description of emotions/feelings:
very excited & a little scared. Drugs or Alcohol involved?: No. Experience
missing time?: No. Personal Contact?: No. Experience this before?: Yes.
Reported to police or officials?: No. Age at time of experience: 42. Need
help coping: No. Would you like to keep your submission anonymous?: Yes.
Can someone contact you?: Yes. http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/day.htm
: Have you ever seen daytime UFOs? Were you near a military base? Do strange
things often fly around military bases? Are you familiar with then all? How?
# San Luis Valley [Colorado] Experiences: http://www.caus.org/cob111999.htm
@ 26 Things All Abductees Should Know Before Allowing So-called Alien Abduc-
tion Investigators To Investigate Their Cases http://caus.org/pc111999.htm
@ ET Contact: Evidence & Implications (review): http://caus.org/mc111999.htm
# Discs, Fireballs, Rods, Missiles Mark Week Of Heavy UFO Activity:
http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/filer112099.htm
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# Anti-Semitic book seized in Hungary. BUDAPEST(AP) Police raided bookstores
in 3 Hungarian towns, confiscating copies of a banned anti-Semitic work
written a century ago. A total of 50 copies were seized. The "Protocols of
the Elders of Zion" describes a Jewish plot to attain global domination.
The fictitious account was concocted by Russia's czarist secret police.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562148484-085
: Do you believe "The Protocols" are real, fictional, extradimensional, bad
poetry, good propaganda, subtle memes, slimey, inspired, trite, funny, nutz?
@ What if... Judah had fallen to Assyria? Cortes had been killed or D-Day
had failed? The Greeks had lost at Salamis or the Spanish Armada survived?
www.chicagotribune.com/leisure/books/article/0,2669,SAV-9911140455,FF.html
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# Research before you self-treat.(AP) The docs were astonished: The 47-year-
old woman's muscle tissue was fast dying. She soon needed a feeding tube
& ventilation as she lost the ability to swallow or breathe. Yet doctors
couldn't find any disease. The only clue: She revealed she had a sack full
of herbal products. She first used a few as diet aids, but then when she
began feeling ill, she desperately bought some 20 different herbs in her
search for a cure-all. Enter toxicologist Susan Smolinske, medical sleuth.
She tested the patient's grab-bag of self-treatments and found a suspect:
ma huang, a Chinese herb also known as ephedra. It's often used for weight
loss, but Smolinske says it has been blamed for 15 other cases of muscle
destruction. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562144494-4f4
: Do you use Chinese herbs? Do you care that they're often contaminated with
metals, hormones, filth, toxins? Do you sell such products? Are profits up??
# West doctors studying Eastern medicine. (AP) After years of med.school &
rigorous scientific study, Dr. Jim Sheller was more than skeptical when he
heard that pain could be relieved by needles. It didn't fit with Western
medicine; poppycock, he said. But as acupuncture gained popularity among
his US patients, Sheller decided to learn more about the ancient practice.
He was quickly converted. He dropped his anesthesiology practice, enrolled
full-time in a Chinese medicine school. Now he makes acupuncture house
calls. As a growing number of Americans seek Eastern medicines for chronic
ailments, more & more Western doctors are heading back to the classroom to
learn acupuncture & Eastern theories on health. It's a striking sign that
Asian healing, including herbology & holistic healing, has become more
mainstream. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562149436-41a
: Does your dentist use acupuncture, acupressure, homeopathy? What are mean
life-spans of recipients of Eastern/traditional vs Western/modern medicine?
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WHAT'S NEW Robert L. Park Friday, 19 Nov 99 Washington, DC
# LOS ALAMOS: SPY INVESTIGATION NOW POINTS AWAY FROM LAB. To use Lincoln's
description of Douglas's arguments, the case against Wen Ho Lee now seems
"thinner than the homeopathic soup made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon
that starved to death." The Cox report focused almost exclusively on Los
Alamos as the source of leaks (WN 27 May 99). From the beginning, however,
Los Alamos scientists have pointed out that leaks of classified info could
have come from any of dozens of facilities, including contractors. Sez the
Washington Post today, an analysis of errors in the Chinese documents that
set the spy hunt off narrows the focus to "integrators" outside the Lab,
casting more disrepute on the Cox report (WN 16 Jul 99).
: Do you enjoy homeopathic soup? Do you swill such soup as you probe spies?
Is the Cox report a bundle of disinfo that protects the miscreants, if any?
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@ The people at J&B Scotch want every child this Christmas to experience
the magic of holiday drinking. http://www.liquorfairy.com/
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