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@ Are You Demotivated Yet? http://www.demotivate.com/
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# Sky lights are flares, not UFOs. PHOENIX, AZ. Look to the sky, conspiracy
buffs: See the spheres of light floating eerily in the night sky. It's ...
the return of the fabled "Phoenix lights!" Well, it's a flare-lit night-
training exercise, which the Arizona Air National Guard says will be held
on the Barry Goldwater Range near Gila Bend. A similar scenario - almost
exactly 3 years ago - sparked an ongoing run of UFO buzz over mysterious
lights in the sky. Coverup?? http://www.azcentral.com/news/0307ufo.shtml
# UFO POLITICS. "It's time that our presidential candidates woke up to the
fact that a growing number of Americans take this subject seriously enough
to consider it when casting their votes." UFOcity intends to make this a
main course of business as we head into the presidential elections. Follow
UFOcity.Com's Campaign Watch 2000: http://www.UFOcity.com/campaign2000.cfm
: Do all political/military/govt institutions routinely coverup their alien
links? Can public pressure force full disclosure? Would that be REAL disclo-
sure, or more disinfo? How could you tell? Are you enslaved by ignorance??
# Army frees 'slave'; is 'indefinite re-enlistment' involuntary servitude?
http://worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_bresnahan/20000307_xex_army_release.shtml
# Tough on alien criminals: http://insidedenver.com:80/news/0301rule2.shtml
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# Good Pot, Bad Pot. (Wired) One study says pot could help patients with
multiple sclerosis. Another says it can give you a heart attack. Is some-
body stoned? http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,34724,00.html
# HAY-FEVER MEDICATION WORSE THAN ALCOHOL IN IMPAIRING DRIVER SKILLS -
better drunk than dosed: http://CNN.com/2000/HEALTH/03/06/allergy.driving/
# HERBS MAY CAUSE UNEXPECTED BLEEDING AFTER SURGERY - ginseng, gingko biloba
and other herbs: http://CNN.com/2000/HEALTH/03/06/anesthesia.herbs/index
@ Which Saw Palmetto & Ginko Biloba Stuff To Buy http://www.consumerlab.com/
# Prozac Pulls Stocks? http://slate.msn.com/Earthling/00-03-03/Earthling.asp
: What's your favorite herbal product? Does it impair/injure/infect you? Do
you care? Do contradictory test results just reveal the richness/complexity
of observable reality? Does reality intrude on your health, or vice-versa??
# Rabies vs. HIV. (BBC) Scientists have uncovered a new weapon in the fight
against HIV - the rabies virus. Virologists have developed a HIV vaccine
using a weakened rabies virus to carry a piece of the HIV virus safely
into the cells of laboratory mice. The cells responded by creating immune
system antibodies to attack the fragment, fighting off the HIV virus.
Zowie. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_667000/667971.stm
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# The future of Humanoid Robots. (DSC) Owning your own mechanical servant
may happen a lot sooner than you think, say our expert panelists. The big
question is: Just how human should they be? And should they be allowed to
drink, drive, vote? http://www.discover.com/mar_00/featfuture.html
@ Panel Participants: Alan Schultz: www.aic.nrl.navy.mil/~schultz;
@ Kazuhiko Kawamura: http://mot.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/ece/~kawamura.htm
Center for Intelligent Systems http://shogun.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/CIS
@ Joe Herkert: http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/users/j/jherkert/jrh.html;
@ Sebastian Thrun, Robot Learning Lab: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rll
@ Joe Engelberger: http://www.helpmaterobotics.com
@ Marvin Minsky: http://www.media.mit.edu/~minsky
@ John McCarthy: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc.
# Robots right for defense, health care, scientist says. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.
Within decades, simple robots could be defending America, monitoring its
environment for poisons & helping an elderly nation control - and perhaps
reduce - its growing health care bill. But should we intermarry with'em?
http://insidedenver.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=SPACEROBOTICS-03-01-00&cat=AS
: How many robots are enough? Will we need robot slaves to help us conquer
the universe? When will robots outsmart/dominate us? Will they keep us as
pets? Will they breed us into interesting new forms, like human Chihuahuas?
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Godz'R'Us:
# Spring has come to Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C. (Time) Wander
by the bookstore & see material on Catholicism under the heading "Cults."
"The Pope isn't necessarily THE Antichrist. He is AN Antichrist." Is that
clear? http://www.time.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,39948,00.html
@ The Anti-Christ: http://www.macromind.org/maps/nz/a-christ.htm
# Pope to apologize for Church failings - Cites heterodoxy, forced convers-
ions, violence, anti-Jewish prejudice - but Holocaust, Inquisition, witch-
burnings OK: http://jpost.com/Editions/2000/03/07/News/News.3639.html
@ Second Vatican Council: http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/v1.html
@ Catholic Worker: http://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/library.cfm
# THE JESUS REPORT - Losers, wimps hailed as 'good guys' - see
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/features/2000/0306/fea5.htm
@ On Jews and Christians Living in the Same Space (A Quo Primum):
http://listserv.american.edu/catholic/church/papal/benedict.xiv/b14aquo.html
# Guilty Plea in Bible Shootings: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9486286
$ Deepak Chopra Unveils HowtoKnowGod.Com - Provides Visitors with Interac-
tive Tools for Spiritual Self-exploration and Establishes Global Forum for
Discussion of Life's 'Mystery of Mysteries'. God: 'Who is this putz?'
http://live.altavista.com/scripts/editorial.dll?ei=1544239&ern=y
@ Opium-Eater: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/dequinc1.htm
@ What's your <http://emode.com/tests/superpower.html> superpower? Are you a
sex god www.emode.com/tests/god.html or www.emode.com/tests/goddess.html
goddess? And play around at http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Games/
# Is God a ready-for-prime-time player? Who does the audience warm-up
schtick? http://insidedenver.com/saunders/0307dusty.shtml
@ Largest Unorganized Religion In The World: http://www.beerchurch.com/
# Creation museum overcomes legal hurdle - construction may start in 2001:
http://kentuckyconnect.com/heraldleader/news/030700/statedocs/07creation.htm
# Is your computer possessed by a demon? Are you? Do you get faster access
that way? Sex chats? http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1745.html
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"Humming a cheerful tune, Millicent continued removing the organs from
the body, rinsing them, patting them dry with a thick terry towel, then
placing them gently in Jeff's Li'l Playmate cooler, all the while won-
dering what he'd think of her single brilliant solution to two nagging
problems -- his mother and her constant and bitter complaints about
Millicent's neglecting her, and Jeff's repeatedly verbalized wish for
something in his lunch besides peanut butter and jelly sandwiches."
--Deanna D. Ledgett
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