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$ Who sez death can't be creative? http://www.finalcurtain.com/
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# BIGGEST U.S. SPY AGENCY CHOKING ON TOO MUCH INFO. The largest US spy gang,
the National Security Agency, is in crisis, swamped by too many targets,
too much data, and the challenges created by increasingly sophisticated
technologies. The NSA is more than twice the size of the CIA, and at least
twice as secretive. Spooks spooked: http://cnn.com/US/9911/25/nsa.woes/
: Have you choked any spies or spy agencies lately? Is this news item just a
desperate call for more computers, more analysts, more money? How much info
is too much? Would you like to choke on info? Is info better than sex? How?
@ GEEK CULTURE: http://www.geekculture.com
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# Prevention effort reduces Air Force suicide rate. NEW YORK (Reuters) The
number of suicides among US Air Force personnel has declined by 75% since
the Air Force implemented a suicide prevention program. What took them
so long? http://news.excite.com/news/r/991124/17/health-psa
: Do USAF personnel suicide more/less than Army, Navy, NSA, CIA? What's the
suicide rate of official MIBs suppressing UFO reports? What're the suicide
rates for UFOlogists, conspirators, dissidents? Are they REALLY suicides?
@ UFOs Control IBM: http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cattlecam/
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@ MARS ISLAND CITY - Mars Global Surveyor image: Traverse Highlands Channel
Arda Valles & Massifs. Note the parallel grooves & other linear features.
After processing, the details are more visible. Images of Macchu Picchu
bear a striking resemblance to the terrace discovered on Mars. Could these
features have been inspired, & perhaps even built, by the same intelligent
beings? The same intensive farming methods used in the mountains of Peru
would be very well adapted to the thin atmosphere of Mars when water and
life may have been abundant in the distant past, before the cataclysm.
Life in thin air: http://www.anomalous-images.com/mgs/islandcity.html
: If aliens worked on ancient Earth structures, did any die in construction
accidents? Why haven't their bodies been found? Were they cremated, removed
or eaten? On which planet would you most likely build terraced cities? Why?
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# Documentary to Test Nature Vs. Nurture. LONDON (Reuters) - The age-old
nurture versus nature argument is to be put to the test in a British TV
documentary which will follow a group of millennium babies through two
decades of their lives. CHILD OF OUR TIMES charts the progress of some
of the first citizens of the year 2000 from the womb to adulthood.
http://news.excite.com/news/r/991124/07/science-britain-bbc
: Are you nurtured, denatured, neutered? Should your upbringing be documen-
ted, recorded, televised? Does this take REAL TV a step too far? Should the
Bunghole Method of child-rearing be included in this study? Is this science?
@ Photogenic bundles of joy? Hardly. Human babies are chubby to convince
their perhaps skeptical mothers that they are worth keeping. But are
they? http://www.sciam.com/1999/1299issue/1299reviews1.html
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SkeptiBriefs/Links:
@ Short History Of US BioWeapons Testing On Innocent Civilians. "The U.S.
program of BW started in 1942. With the acquisition of the Japanese data
and the increased tensions of the cold war, the U.S. program accelerated
in activity and grew in size... One of the biggest experiments involved
the use of Serratia marcescens being sprayed over San Francisco." Like,
who noticed? http://www.calpoly.edu/~drjones/biowar-b.html#history
@ Organic Federation of Australia: http://www.green.net.au/ofa/
@ Australian GeneEthics Network: http://www.zero.com.au/agen
@ Dowsing For Change: http://www.fountain-international.org
# Closing The Dream Factory - THE TRUTH BEHIND THE END OF SONY'S 7-YEAR
PARANORMAL RESEARCH EFFORT: A STORY OF QUIET SUCCESS AND CORPORATE
DISAPPOINTMENT. This summer, Japan's enormously successful electronics
giant, the Sony Corporation, unloaded a bombshell when they announced
that ESP exists. http://www.forteantimes.com/artic/115/sonypsi.html
@ The 20th Century: 100 years of history: http://cnn.com/100
@ Take a virtual peek into the future: http://www.cnn.com/future
@ The first sunrise of 2000 will be: www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/at2000
@ Poll: What are your scenarios for the 21st century:
http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/at2000/index.html#poll
# Memories of Fear: We Learn How They Work. (USC) Scientists have found the
brain circuit where memories of fear are processed. This points the way
toward possible treatments for anxiety disorders. Military applications
include rendering troops fearless, and paralyzing enemies with paranoia.
http://www.usc.edu/ext-relations/news_service/releases/stories/36023.html
@ Treatment of Schizophrenia: http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/319/7216/1045
@ Drug Treatment of Depression http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/318/7192/1188
@ Surviving Stress: http://pubs.acs.org/hotartcl/cenear/980525/sur.html
@ The Unconscious Mind: http://www.newscientist.com/ns/980905/features.html
@ Beauty, Charm, and Strangeness: Science as Metaphor. Modern science,
particularly physics, is being forced, under pressure of its own advances,
to acknowledge that the truths it offers are true not in an absolute but
in a poetic sense, that its laws are contingent, that its facts are a
kind of metaphor. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/281/5373/40
# Bad news for novelists. The fiction computers now produce is increasingly
hard to tell from creations of the human mind. Humans are obsolete, eh?
http://nytimes.com/library/tech/99/11/cyber/artsatlarge/11artsatlarge.html
@ EgyptAir Flight 990 DataPage:
http://www.sightings.com/politics5/990dtapage.html
# EgyptAir data points to human cause
http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562227703-ca3
# Also: Egyptian experts join crash probe.
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562225576-e87
# Y2K - Essential Military Command System Risks Failure:
http://www.sightings.com/ufo5/y2kess.htm
# Y2K - Neediest Americans Said Being Left Behind:
http://www.sightings.com/politics5/behind.htm
# Y2K Party Canceled - Sting, Tom Jones, Aretha Franklin couldn't sell tix:
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/19991123/aponline183326_000.htm
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