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# RoboDog: http://news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/japan/apple/20000218/tok105
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# Mysterious 'Z Ray' Cripples Plane Engines Over NYC. New York - Airplane
pilots flying in this vicinity have asked the Dept of Commerce to probe a
supposed radio-ray device which they believe stops the motors of airplanes
passing over New York city. http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/zray.htm
# Francis Gary Powers Exhibit. (AP) An exhibition on the legendary U.S.
U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers whose plane was hit by a Soviet anti-
aircraft missile, is opened in the Berlin Allied Museum. What, me spy?
http://news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/germany/u2/legacy/20000220/ber104
: Has your aeroplane been crippled by ground-based interference? Were you
hit by waves, rays, missiles, beams, birds, pebbles, ennui? Are you frantic?
# Orange Triangles Attack: http://somethingawful.com/spam/icq-pete-01.htm
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# Ozone layer 'thinning over Europe.' (BBC) Scientists are warning that
the ozone layer is becoming severely depleted over a large part of
northern Europe, including the UK. Dig out your parasols, mates.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_656000/656014.stm
# Global warming hit London early. (BBC) Archaeologists have found evidence
that southern Britain's climate was far hotter 250,000 years ago. Blimey.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_657000/657130.stm
: Is Europe a waste, a write-off? Was it a write-off 250,000 years ago? Did
aliens restore Europe? Will aliens devastate it? Is this just a sick game??
# Mars Weather - Snow, Dust Devils, Wind Confirmed. WASHINGTON - Signs of
Martian snowfall,avalanches, <http://space.com/space/surveyor_images.html>
"dust devils" & evidence for ancient oceans from the Mars Global Surveyor
<http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/> are profoundly changing how we see the Red
Planet. It's a far cry from the dry, dead world imagined by previous gene-
rations. http://www.space.com/science/solarsystem/mars_weather_000223.html
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# FLY FACTORY - We're just a few genes short of the instruction manual
for fruit flies: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns222730
@ PROTECTING OUR CHILDREN. What's the greatest scourge of the twenty-first
century? My friends, I'm talking about mutants. http://mutantwatch.com/
: Have you built any flies/humans/mutants/models lately? Are you threatened
by mutant flies? Do you threaten mutant flies? Are you intimidating? Where?
# Rate of Bad Mutations on the Rise According to New Government Study:
http://mutantwatch.com/story_rateofbad.html
# Freak Tornado Outside Flagstaff Linked to Teen Mutant Activity:
http://mutantwatch.com/story_freaktornado.html
# Health Coverage Denied to Patients with Advanced Genetic Mutations:
http://mutantwatch.com/story_healthcoverage.html
# Do You Know Your Neighbors? Mutants in Your Backyard:
http://mutantwatch.com/story_neighbors.html
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# Watch the search for alien signals - Astronomers monitor skies while
world watches on Web. (MSNBC) �-- SETI researchers are back at the
world�s biggest radio astronomy dish, looking for signals from alien
civilizations. This time, the whole world can literally watch over their
shoulders via the Internet. http://www.msnbc.com/news/374378.asp
# The phenomenon of synchronized clapping by audiences in Eastern Europe
can tell us something about fireflies, the ticking of clocks on a wall,
and the beating cells of our hearts. All together now, a-one-and-a-two...
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/clap000223.html
: Have you received any synchronization signals lately? Are you in time now?
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# Leap Day Tuesday Last Y2K Worry. (Wired) An esoteric calendar rule created
hundreds of years ago should offer the last of potential Y2K computer
glitches for programmers who will staff Leap Day Tuesday crisis centers.
Oh yeah? http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34586,00.html
# Firm Reprogramming Itself To Adapt to Life After Y2K - We Will Survive:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/feed/a32224-2000feb25.htm
# Reality? http://www.somethingawful.com/articles/article-simrealism.htm
: Are you prepared for the new millennium? Have all Y2K bugs been squashed?
What about quarterly/semiannual/other systems; sabotage; divine/demonic tem-
per-tantrums; gross incompetence; alien intervention; manic depression; me?
# Pro-Pot E-mail Threatens White House - Bomb Message Sent From High School:
www.apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/02/25/emailthreat0225_01.html
# FBI Admits Hackers Crippled Its Web Site; Like Recent Massive Cyberattacks
http://apbnews.com/newscenter/internetcrime/2000/02/25/fbihack0225_01.html
# Banana Rumor: 'Internet Terrorism' - Fruit Spread Flesh-Eating Bacteria?
http://apbnews.com/newscenter/internetcrime/2000/02/25/bananas0225_01.html
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Spirit'N'Sex'R'Us:
# Monk Gloats Over Yoga Championship - "I am the serenest!" he says,
pumping his fists: http://www.theonion.com/archives/monkgloats.html
# Monks bring spirit and sand. (U-WIRE) TAMPA, Fla. -- The monks of Drepung
Loseling will begin constructing an intricate Mandala Sand Painting on the
campus of U. South Florida. The mandala is a creation of geometric shapes
& ancient spiritual symbols made with grains of colored sand. The shapes
and symbols generally have secret meanings beyond what is visible. The
word mandala means "world in harmony" and is used to aid in meditation.
The monks will work 6 hours a day for 6 days, when the artwork is finished
and then destroyed. http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000225/odd-104
# WANT TO GET NAKED? Student body president says U. South Florida 'needs
a naked tradition' -- http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000225/odd-233
# Kissing specialist, Boston College prof entertains U. Connecticut crowd.
Mouths, necks, ear lobes, buttocks, fingers, eyelashes, noses, shoulders;
All are part of kissing: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000225/odd-151
# VIRGINS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Nothing to lose but: http://www.hymen.com/
# Sex x Commo: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/000225/university-education-46
# 'Germ-Warfare' Sex Columnist Leading Figure For Homosexual Parenting:
http://www.sightings.com/ufo6/wrf.htm
# Choir Director Accused of Molesting Boys - gave money, clothes, booze, pot
for sex: http://www.freep.com/news/locway/dcain23_20000223.htm
# Trio Charged with Sex-Claims Fraud - Accused Priest of Molesting Children:
http://apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/02/25/falsesex0225_01.html
# Farrakhan's Son Free on Bail - Charged With Assaulting Pregnant Wife:
http://apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/2000/02/25/farrakhan0225_01.html
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