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@ SHATNEROIDS!
http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~aardvark/java/Shatneroids2/Shatneroids.html
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# Worms in Gulf of Mexico long-lived. STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - Giant worms
living 1,700 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico have been found
to be up to 250 years old - a record for creatures without a backbone. The
tube worms [scientific name: Lamellibrachia] do not eat; they survive by
absorbing energy from chemicals that seep up through cracks in the sea
floor. They grow to lengths of 10 feet or more and party infrequently.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563886499-a9d
# CANDYMAKER TOUTS HEALTH BENEFITS OF CHOCOLATE - Snickers, M&Ms are good
for you: http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=26496
# FISH OIL MAY BE GOOD FOR ARTERIES, PROMOTE HEALTHY HEARTS - devour more
salmon: http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=26746
# TAXING FATTY FOODS MAY TRIM HEART DISEASE RATES - McTaxes on McFood for
McHealth: http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=26522
# VEGETARIAN DIET IN PREGNANCY LINKED TO BIRTH DEFECT: 5x risk of defective
penis: http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=26907
: Do you wish to live long and prosper? Would you rather absorb chemicals,
eat chocolate/fishfat/turnips, soak up good vibrations? Are you defective
due to your parents' diets? Are your kids defective due to your diet? How?
@ If Desmond Morris's mother hadn't so enjoyed vast plates of
greasy, fatty meat, she might have lived to be 100 -- instead
of only 99: http://www.sirc.org/articles/desmond.html
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# U.S. Official Concerned On N.Korea Nuke Potential, China Likely Supplier.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) The director of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency
said he was concerned that North Korea and Iran will develop long-range
nuclear missiles in the next several years. Give us a lot more money so we
can blow the suckers away: http://www.insidechina.com/news.php3?id=132214
# Nato: modernise. (BBC) Nato chief Lord Robertson says they must modernise
its armed forces to meet the challenges of the 21st Century. More money:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/despatches/europe/newsid_631000/631972.stm
: Does your econo/politico/military conspiracy absorb vast amounts of money
preparing to wage wars that never occur? Do you promote war fears, to scare
the public into funding your lavish lifestyle? Are you successful, happy??
# Senate wants ex-CIA chief to testify - public flogging inevitable:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2563903666-5ef
@ "Why strength of character is needed to lead a good life"
http://radicalacademy.com/adlerstrengthcharacter.htm
# ECHELON - Exposing the Global Surveillance System:
http://www.mediafilter.org/caq/CAQ59GlobalSnoop.html
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@ Paradise Lost: Can Mankind Live Without Its Utopias? Utopia may be "no
place" (as the word's original meaning suggests), but when imagined, it is
always some place. Just not here. It is across an ocean (like Sir Thomas
More's noplace that was the first to be called utopia), atop a mountain
(like H. G. Wells's) or in interstellar space (like SciFi'er Ursula K.
LeGuin's). http://www.nytimes.com/library/arts/020500utopia-library.html
@ CIA. Cannabis in Avalon came into being in early 1999 in order to spread
Cannabis consciousness from the Heart Chakra of planet Earth. Cannabis
is the most beneficial and versatile plant resource known to humanity.
Through the use of Cannabis we will reverse the effects of Global
Warming, Save the Rain Forests, feed, clothe and shelter the World's
population entirely. http://www.isleofavalon.co.uk/local/h-pages/cia/
: What's your favorite paradise? Can paradise be brought to Earth? Can/will/
should humanity be saved, fed, clothed, sheltered, nurtured? Are we better
in adversity, which builds character, challenges us to improve, evolves us?
@ Isis Unveiled: http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/isis/iu-hp.htm
@ Messenger From Y'HW'H Sez: http://w3.tvi.cc.nm.us/~shawnk/#Awareness
@ New Testament Gateway: http://www.bham.ac.uk/theology/goodacre/links.htm
@ Bible Study Tools: http://www.biblestudytools.net
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# Evolution disclaimer extinct - State official prevents 'theory' attachment
on science book http://www.oklahoman.com/cgi-bin/search_get?ID=441570
$ Shooting holes in Darwinism - Get the brain-dead video 'The Triumph of
Design' https://locked.webforums.com/forums/secure.o-read/msa64.211.html
# Evolutionary Transition From Life In Sea To Land Triggered By Gene
Expansion: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/02/000204074047.htm
@ Not all sharks <www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/sharks/sharks.htm> are flesh-
crazed <http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Sharks/White/World.htm> killers.
Most are harmless, like the <http://www.whaleshark.org/About%20Them.html>
enormous whale shark and the rare (and evidently tasty) megamouth.
<http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/sharks/Megamouth/tablemega.htm>. Now swim
on over to http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Science/
: Have you evolved much lately? Should you have remained in the sea? Would
all the fish around you evolve, leaving you stuck to a rock? Are cretinists
all stuck to rocks, waving in the currents as life evolves around them? Eh?
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SkeptiBriefs:
@ Lust has replaced rage as the hip feminist passion. But what if you're in
your sixties? Do you watch the next wave from the geriatric sidelines?
http://weeklystandard.com/magazine/mag_5_20_00/brooks_feat_5_20_00.html
# Hubble looks through the Keyhole. (BBC) The Hubble Space Telescope has
looked deeply into a giant gas/dust cloud within the Carina Nebula. See
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_630000/630840.stm
@ Via http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Art/ -While the Nazis were unspeakably
vile <http://www.tunnel.to/Hogans-Heros/> in so many ways, they did have
<http://www.earthstation1.com/German_Propaganda_Posters.html> good grafix.
# Radiation standards 'too low' (BBC) The risk to workers at nuclear plants
has been under-estimated because scientists have used the wrong measures:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_630000/630950.stm
@ Philosophy is often dense and overly technical. That something is obscure
should never increase our respect for it. But that's how it plays out:
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/highlights/sense_nonsense/
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