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@ Earliest Alphabet? http://discovery.com/news/archive/news991115/zoom4.html
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# SURVEY: ONLY A QUARTER OF U.S. HOUSEHOLDS HAVE 'TRADITIONAL' FAMILIES. The
fragment of American households made up of married couples with children
dropped from 45% in the early 1970s to just 26% in 1998. This is another
sign that the face of the American family has changed. Figures starker
than Census study: http://cnn.com/US/9911/24/changingfamilies.ap/
: Are you traditional? Did your nuclear family fission? Are nuclear families
an aberration? Aren't multi-generational clans the human norm? R U normal??
@ The First Drug Wars Were Against Coffee - the moral equivalent of crack?
http://salon.com/books/review/1999/11/23/allen_pendergrast/print.html
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# PROTECTION AGAINST IE HOLES MAY CREATE MORE PROBLEMS THAN SOLUTIONS. Every
couple of weeks Georgi Guninski, a 27-year-old Bulgarian computer security
whiz, posts another Microsoft Internet Explorer security hole to BugTraq,
a mailing list dedicated to computer vulnerabilities. The majority of the
Guninski's latest discoveries have involved Internet Explorer 5.0's Active
Scripting and ways to scoot malicious code into a user's browser. The tiny
programs can do anything from reading text files on a user's hard drive to
taking control of their computer. More features lead to problems, oppor-
tunities for hackers: www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9911/23/active.scripting
: What's your favorite hack? Do MS warez encourage hacking intentionally? Is
Bill Gates secretly profiting from the computer-security industry? Why not?
# White House hacker faces prison - "I didn't really think it was too much
of a big deal:" www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562222504-445
# NASA under cyber attack - Teen-ager launches virtual war to show security
holes: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,32729,00.html
# The virus that stole Xmas: Set to strike Dec.25, it reformats hard drives:
http://apbnews.com/newscenter/internetcrime/1999/11/23/virus1123_01.html
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# LATEST IMAGES FROM MARS SHOW DETAILS OF LAYERS, CRATERS. (CNN) Some of the
latest images taken by the Mars Global Surveyor, which has been mapping
the red planet since earlier this year, reveal just how much work is ahead
for the Mars Polar Lander. "Even with this preview people are still quite
perplexed - it's such a different type of terrain." Layers at the south
pole: http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9911/23/mars.deposits/index.html
: Are the aliens' Mars bases sufficiently camouflaged, or must they shoot
down the MGS? Does NASA have good excuses ready? Is it the terrain's fault?
# Telescope's First Light Shows Developing Star:
http://www.space.com/science/astronomy/protostar_image_991123.html
# Scientists Detect Distant, Powerful Quasar - Sony not concerned:
http://www.space.com/news/far_quasar_991123.html
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# Hale-Bopp Comet May Have A Satellite. The suggestion that comet Hale-Bopp
might have a satellite orbiting its nucleus, based on Hubble images, has
resurfaced amid doubts. If further research confirms the satellite, it
would be the first known cometary satellite discovered in a stable orbit.
Mothership? http://space.com/science/solarsystem/hale_bopp_991123.html
: When invading a solar system, do you like to place your space armadas in
orbit around comets? Does this provide adequate cover? Can you adequately
beam your mindcontrol rays past the cometary aura? Are we easy targets??
# Humans Seen Living On Other Planets In 100 Years. NASA has plans for us -
pack up your spacesuit: http://unisci.com/stories/19994/1124991.htm
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Genes'R'Us:
# Petri Dish Politics - Biotechnology will make it possible for us to live
longer and better. So why are some people dead set against it? What is
their real agenda? http://www.reasonmag.com/9912/fe.rb.petri.html
# 1/3rd of human gene map completed - just 2 billion left to do:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562227687-198
# Disabled people mixed over genetic future - screened & aborted?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_459000/459330.stm
# Countering an invisible adversary: Genes used to identify bio-
terror agents: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/990222/22terr.htm
Clone-a-Rama:
# DNA damage shatters dreams of mammoth cloning. FRAGMENTS of DNA from mam-
moths have been recovered & sequenced, but are too damaged to make cloning
the long-extinct creatures possible, an international team has reported.
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/99/11/24/timfgnusa02004.html?999
# Old DNA revived: http://accessexcellence.org/WN/SU/beebacteria1198.html
# Dinosaur DNA Recovered: http://khouse.org/dna.html
@ Dinosaurs & DNA: http://www.wwy.org/wwy0595.html
@ Can dinosaurs be cloned? http://www.pages.org/bcs/Bcs039.html
@ Mouse/Human Chimera: www.medsch.ucla.edu/som/ddo/aidsprog/cfar/Mouse.htm
@ Human Genetic Cloning: http://webpages.shepherd.edu/jenter01/cloning.htm
@ Cloning Ethics: http://www.puaf.umd.edu/ippp/Fall97Report/cloning.htm
# Saddam's Clones: http://www.parascope.com/articles/slips/fs_161.htm
@ CLONAID (Raelian movement): http://www.clonaid.com/
@ Sumsoshoeugenics, Case for Human Cloning:
http://www.summum.org/mummification/sumsosho.htm
# Bionic Eyes on the Cutting Edge:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/DailyNews/cuttingedgeii981105.html
# Companies Want Biochip Implants To Monitor Employee Performance:
http://www.newpower.org/xnews/99/05/11.shtml
@ Homo sapiens sapiens cyber - Upgradings Ourselves Beyond our Biology:
http://homepage.esoterica.pt/~jpnitya/science/hcyber.htm
@ The Real Bionic Man:
http://discoveryschool.com/fall97/programs/therealbionicman/
@ Animal and Plant Genetic Engineering:
http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/town/terrace/aa244/geneng2.htm
@ GENETIC ENGINEERING GOING MAD - God-like powers:
http://www.thewinds.org/archive/medical/genetic_engineering04-98.html
@ What is Genetic Engineering?
http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/town/terrace/aa244/geneng1.htm
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