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Relativity: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/eric_baird/ec_rbook.htm
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# First cloned human embryo told. (BBC) Details of the first human embryo to
be cloned have been released. The watershed achievement in biotechnology
actually happened last November, but more info was revealed on Thursday.
It was achieved using a cell from a man's leg and a cow's egg. Scientists
who created the clone see it as a significant step forward in the search
for a way of producing human stem cells. Great medical applications:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_371000/371378.stm
@ Links - Advanced Cell Technology: http://www.advancedcell.com/
@ Cloning: http://www.newscientist.com/nsplus/insight/clone/clone.html
@ Geron Corporation: http://www.geron.com/
@ Roslin Institute: http://www.ri.bbsrc.ac.uk/
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# MTBE -- The End of Food Production In America! Will MTBE Mean the End of
Life as We Know It In the US? If MTBE contaminates all water supplies in
the US, how will we grow food? If MTBE is not removed from gasoline in the
US within the next six months, it may be too late to save our water and
our way of life. http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=1224
@ Charnock MTBE Project: http://www.epa.gov/region09/cross_pr/mtbe/charnock/
# The End of Agriculture in America - America is going out of the business
of agriculture: http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=1078
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# DEADLY TO CATTLE AND HUMANS, PRIONS MAY HELP OTHER ORGANISMS SURVIVE.
Molecular studies in yeast yield surprising evidence that the contorted
proteins known as prions, often deadly to cattle & humans [BSE, CJD] may
serve a beneficial role in some organisms, and possibly in humans. And
prions might be far more common than had been previously suspected.
They're everywhere: http://www.ucsf.edu/pressrel/2000/01/012001.html
# Taming Prions. A bit of protein injected into mice can delay the onset of
a lethal brain disease. This raises hopes for a treatment for Creutzfeldt-
Jacob disease (CJD), a rare but always fatal illness in people in which
deformed proteins build up in the brain. The same strategy may even be
deployed against Alzheimer's disease & other common afflictions linked to
renegade proteins. http://academicpress.com/inscight/01182000/grapha.htm
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# This won't hurt a bite - Vaccines from food may end need for painful
needles: http://www.theage.com.au/news/20000121/A36809-2000Jan20.html
# Emerging infectious diseases of wild animals are a threat to biodiversity
and human health: http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/ugaa-eid011400.html
# Honey, I Shrunk the HMO! The next generation of medicine is in the hands
of nanobots. http://go.wired.com/wired/archive/8.01/nanomed.html/mg20004
# As the MEMS Revolution Takes Off, Small Is Getting Bigger Every Day:
http://go.wired.com/wired/archive/8.01/mems.html/mg20004
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# Spat Over Sea-Monkeys: Greeks Make Waves Over Invasion. ATHENS (AP) Sea-
Monkeys are getting into hot water in Greece. The tiny aquatic creatures —
which have attained a cult-kitsch status in the US and elsewhere — are the
subject of a serious probe into a question that has fascinated kids for
decades: What are these things? Actually, they’re a type of brine shrimp
that exist naturally in high saline ecosystems. But their recent arrival
in Greece worries some people, and prompted some to ask: Are they real?
Have they been genetically modified? Should they be sold to kids as toys?
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/SeaMonkeys_000121.html
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# Seti@home gets an upgrade - It could make the greatest discovery of all
time. (BBC) When the Seti@home project began in May 1999, using a computer
screensaver to search for alien signals seemed almost as nutz as searching
at all. But 161,000 years of computer time later, the project has been
phenomenally successful. It's also been popular, with 1.62 million users
now signed up and doing their bit for intergalactic communication. And now
the second version of Seti@home is launched. Beam me up:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_613000/613444.stm
# And: Alien hunt breaks record http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9262369
# Furry puppet seen in ET search: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9262370
# Largest ET-hunting 'scope planned http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9262371
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# MIR TO STAY ALOFT WITH INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION GUTS. Russia's aging
Mir space station got a reprieve when the govt decided to keep it in orbit
through August, using hardware previously allocated for the International
Space Station. http://CNN.com/2000/TECH/space/01/20/russia.mir.iss/
# Russia Decides to Keep Mir: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9262472
# Lunatic fringe - Skygazing spectacle mesmerizes much of Earth:
http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/01/21/space.eclipse.01/index.html
# Lunar Eclipse Was Clear: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9262475
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# Wiretapping Unwarranted? Internet privacy groups ask a federal appeals
court to block FBI's plans to tap Net communications without a warrant.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33810,00.html?tw=wn20000121
# Pseudonymity Now! Zero Knowledge doesn't think it's enough to lock data
tight. Users should have complete control over their online identity.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,33805,00.html?tw=wn20000121
# (Low) Power to the People. The FCC will allow small-time radio operators
to broadcast over low-power FM micro radios, restoring voice to those
who were being squeezed out by the radio conglomerates. Read my lips:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,33790,00.html?tw=wn20000121
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# WHY SECURITY IS LAX AT STATE DEPT. The appalling but hardly surprising
breaches of security at the Dept of State HQ here are a direct result of
the end of the Cold War and a re-emerging attitude among the nation's
foreign service "elite" that dates back to before World War II. Arrogant
buggers: http://chblue.com/2000/01/20/k/0000-0001-thomasson.asp
# Nuclear secrets in open archives Classified papers could have helped bud-
ding weapons programs: http://cnn.com/2000/US/01/20/nuclear.secrets.01/
@ Communist Manifesto: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/mancont.htm
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# Holy See dotcon. The Vatican is finding out the hard way that there are
some places where nothing is sacred. It's the latest big-name victim of
conmen operating on the Internet. Two Italian businessmen have registered
Net sites using the Vatican name, though they have nothing to do with the
Eternal City. www.vaticano.org and www.vaticano.com arouse divine wrath:
www.scmp.com/News/World/Article/FullText_asp_ArticleID-20000121025801701.asp
@ CARGO CULTURE: http://www.levity.com/figment/cargo.html
@ Corpus Cybermeticum: http://www.levity.com/figment/corpus.html
@ CYBERIA: http://www.rushkoff.com/cyberiabook.html
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