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# UFOs Invade China - the Journal of UFO Research:
http://news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/china/alien/mania/20000102/ny194
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# Feeling doomless? Check out some of the prophesies on about.com. On April
4, sez a prophet named Ola Ilori, the Jewish Jubilee Year will end, resul-
ting in the Rapture and that pole-shift thing people are talking about
(which could put the South Pole somewhere around South America). And let's
not forget that on May 5, the planets will be in relative alignment, res-
ulting in earthquakes, tidal waves, erupting volcanoes & the shifting of
ice caps! http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/pages/000104/3384741.html
: What's your favorite prediction? Have you made any predictions lately? Are
you well-paid? Are you right very often? Does it matter, if you're paid? Eh?
@ All about 2000: From parties to predictions: http://www.cnn.com/2000
@ Take a virtual peek into the future: http://www.cnn.com/future
@ Your Scenarios: http://cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/at2000/index.html#poll
# I predict: http://www.nymag.com/page.cfm?page_id=1777
$ Predict It - Predict All: http://www.predictit.com/
@ Ask The Hideous Jabbering Head of Abraham Lincoln -
ask anything: http://www.hideousjabberinghead.com/
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@ Ten Tech Predictions for 2000. It's been a good century for technology,
what with the industrial revolution hitting its stride, the moon landing,
and the birth of the PC. The next century is sure to be even better, but
let's start with 2000. See what the oracle has to say about the future of
technology. http://1.digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin1/flo?x=dKoEumYEEwoEoKuY
@ Hardware: 10 Technologies for the Next Millennium. Technological change
continues its furious pace. We consider ten technologies that have just
left the developmental stage, and we speculate on how they will affect our
lives in the immediate future. What will your tech future look like? We'll
tell you. http://1.digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin1/flo?x=dKoEumYEEwoghAuu
@ Gamecenter: The Top 40 Games of the Millennium. Picking the best games of
the last thousand years is a fool's errand, so we limited our choices to
the best electronic games of the last hundred years. Gratuitous references
to the millennium aside, this story will take you on a fun-filled trip
down memory lane, and then we pick the one game we believe has left a
bigger impact on the world than any other. Hint: It's not one of the
newest. http://1.digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin1/flo?x=dKoEumYEEwoEYguA
: Is gaming a/the major force driving technological development? When will
gaming totally supplant physical warfare? What electro/chemical/bio techs
will most affect future gaming, and vice versa? What are your predictions?
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# THE ART OF DIPLOMACY. (LATimes) The halls of the United Nations are filled
with valuable art. But curating the vast collection is an art in itself.
"The greatest problem facing the arts committee is preventing the United
Nations from becoming a curiosity shop." Isn't that curious? Geek show:
http://www.calendarlive.com/calendarlive/calendar/20000107/t000001981.html
: Are the best international conspiracies/bureaucracies the most curious??
If the UN wasn't curious, would it be worth having around? Should political/
economic/religious/governing institutions be forced to sell their collected
artworks? What would you pay for the galleries of the White House, Vatican,
UK Royals, UN, Kremlin? How much could taxes be reduced if these were sold?
# Bono: Forgive Third World debt. PARIS (AP) - Ballad writer Bono has turned
his pen to editorials. The lead singer of the Irish rock group U2 urged
France to forgive billions of dollars owed by Third World. Ignore credit
risks: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563091338-af0
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# U.S. abortions continue to decline. ATLANTA (AP) - The number of abortions
in the U.S. fell in 1997 to the lowest level in two decades, despite new
drugs that make it easier to terminate a pregnancy. The CDC cited several
factors for the decline, including reduced access to abortion, increased
willingness to use contraception and possibly different attitudes about
the moral implications of abortion. And more fetuses harvested by aliens -
see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563101425-94a
: Are you alien? Have you harvested many fetal humans lately? Do you feed on
their chemistry, structure, energies, imminent souls? How do you control the
humans who oppose reproductive choice - implants, mind-control rays, drugs??
# PENTAGON SAYS IT DID NOT INTENTIONALLY MANIPULATE KOSOVO WAR TAPE - flap
aired by German newspaper: http://cnn.com/2000/US/01/06/nato.train.video/
# WARRANT LINKS FUGITIVE TO FIRST SMUGGLING SUSPECT ARRESTED IN WASHINGTON -
bombing spree plotted: http://cnn.com/2000/US/01/07/border.arrests.ap/
# BUCHANAN PLEDGES TO FIGHT 'WORLD GOVERNMENT' - prefers nationalism, wars,
genocide, slavery: http://cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/01/06/buch.ap/
# NORTHERN EUROPEANS, AMERICANS MORE LIKELY TO DIE FROM HYPERTENSION - diet,
genetics, stress: http://cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/01/06/blood.pressure.ap/
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@ BRAVO, 'LOST & FOUND SOUND'- by SPIKE http://ojr.usc.edu/content/spike.cfm
NPR's excellent "Lost and Found Sound" project ended its year-long run as
a weekly feature of "All Things Considered" last week (it will now appear
monthly.) The project focused on lost or archival recordings of all kinds;
the final <http://npr.org/programs/lnfsound/stories/current.html> weekly
segment offered selections submitted by ordinary folks, including a woman
who remembers her late husband by an answering machine message in which he
imitates Mr.Ed, & a man whose mother battled throat cancer to sing "Happy
Birthday" to her son. Always moving... The Lost and Found Sound archive
<http://www.npr.org/programs/lnfsound/stories/index.html> offers dozens of
remarkable reports based around long-dormant recordings, from Tennessee
Williams <http://npr.org/programs/lnfsound/stories/990528.stories.html> in
a Penny Arcade, to [OK, go ahead, laugh at'em] old mental hygiene films[!]
<http://www.npr.org/programs/lnfsound/stories/991112.stories.html>, to
WHER <http://www.npr.org/programs/lnfsound/stories/991029.stories.html>,
the first all-girl radio station.
: How many aural memories are stored in your head? Does your alien implant
provide room for more, or are they drained away? Can you use more memories?
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