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# Four UFOs Sighted in New Jersey: http://www.caus.org/mu030300.htm
# Professor States UFOs "Out There": http://www.caus.org/pn030300.htm
@ CODE ZONE - "Is synchronicity contagious?" Can you catch it from others?
Coincidence, conspiracy or consciousness? http://caus.org/cz030300.htm
# THE UNIFIED ALIEN THEORY: No other way to explain it, really. After
watching last week's Grammy Awards, one critic has figured it out.
Mariah Carey and Celine Dionne? Nothing human about them. THEY'RE
ALIENS! http://www.theage.com.au/news/20000303/A51770-2000Mar2.html
: Who are your favorite aliens? Do you feel strangely compelled to have sex
[rishathra] with aliens and/or other non-human entities? Do they sometimes
seem remarkably humanoid? Do you give them gifts? Are gifts appreciated??
# Some men send flowers, but that's a little too humdrum for pioneering
space cowboy Bob Farquhar. He got his wife an asteroid. Just a little
one: http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41761-2000Feb27.html
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# More women contract AI disease. (AP) - Autoimmune diseases caused when the
body starts attacking itself overwhelmingly strike women & are often mis-
diagnosed: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564706785-f31
@ Milk Is A Bad-News Substance! http://www.notmilk.com/
# Ebola cure possible. (BBC) Ebola, one of the most terrifying diseases in
the world, may be treatable according to a new study, suggesting that an
effective vaccine could be developed in the future. Send doctors, drugs &
money: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_664000/664300.stm
@ WHO Ebola factsheet: http://www.who.int/emc/diseases/ebola/index.html
: What's your favorite disease? Have you engineered/produced/promulgated any
new diseases lately? D'ya prefer diseases that consume human bodies, leaving
little evidence? Are'ya constantly having to counter treatments? Frustrated?
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# Scientists: Herbal research needed. CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) - Herbal
remedies generally are safe, but at least one can cause severe liver
damage - evidence that much more research into the popular products is
needed. Nearly a third of the adult U.S. population spends $4 billion a
year on herbs, which are sold as food rather than regulated drugs. "Is
it a waste of money? Is it dangerous? We don't have enough data to know."
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564696526-074
Update: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564706838-94f
# Marijuana raises heart risks - legal problems bothersome too:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564697991-dc4
: What are your favorite herbs? Are they (il)legal? Is legality irrelevant?
Have you re-engineered y'r endocrine system to produce all the organic chem-
icals you want? So ancient secret societies support your research? Happily?
# NHS Scandal Link To UK Masons. Leaders of Britain's ruling medical body,
the General Medical Council, will be questioned by MPs about possible
links between Freemasons in the medical profession & a series of medical
scandals. www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/Health/2000-02/mason270200.shtml
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# Ancient tools found in China: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9466022
# Asia's oldest axe tools discovered - axe-murder victims found nearby:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_664000/664967.stm
# World's oldest building discovered - code violations force demolition:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_664000/664967.stm
# Ancient 'tool factory' uncovered - unions protest working conditions:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_336000/336555.stm
@ <http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/people/GeorgeFitzmaurice/papers/gwf_bdy.html>
Graspable User Interfaces is an interesting idea -- using physical objects
and artifacts to manipulate virtual objects via a sensitive desktop. Real?
@ TheBrain <http://www.thebrain.com/> is nifty software that tries to help
you index things like bookmarks, files, & other electronic content along
the lines of how you think. Via http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Computing/
: D'ya prefer physical/virtual/moral tools? Have you designed/build/used any
new tools lately? Can tools help you explore the spirit world, the hyperreal
realms, the interior of your consciousness, the immensities of deities? How?
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# Virgin Mary Grabs Spotlight in Brazil Carnival. RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters)
The Virgin Mary took center stage in Brazil's Carnival preparations this
week after Rio's archbishop asked police to confiscate religious images
from a samba school: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000303/12/odd-virgin
# Ford: Keep religion out of politics. O'Hair: And vice versa.
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564701310-a63
# Iraqis rejects UN hajj plan - "let them eat sawdust!"
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564695368-b03
# Nun slayers seek El Salvador amnesty - only following orders:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564698712-754
# Nigerians fear religious violence in north - Xian-Muslim carnage:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564699136-154
: Does religion/politics/entertainment.economics belong in each other's do-
mains? Are they inseparable? Is your belief system entertaining? Is it more/
less/same fun than sex with zero/one/more partners? Are they integrated??
# School yanks how-to-draw-Satan book off shelves. Kids at one Las Vegas
school will now have to learn how to draw the devil and 49 other scary
creatures on their own. A minister doesn't like "Draw 50 Monsters,"
calling it abhorrent. "If it were a book that taught children to draw
the pope or Billy Graham, the politically correct crowd would be enraged."
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/lv-ed/2000/mar/03/509936980.html
@ Take a < http://www.epcomm.com/draw50/monsters.htm > "Draw 50 Monsters"
sample lesson at home. [ via http://www.obscurestore.com/ ]
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Culture-Wars-R-Us:
# Poland OKs total pornography ban - likely to be vetoed:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564713377-a81
# China to execute deputy governor - scapegoat for massive corruption:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564716503-9a5
# POST-APARTHEID RAP: That's not Snoop Doggy Dogg you hear thudding down the
streets of J'burg - it's Kwaito, So.Africa's latest musical craze. Lyrics
written in Zulu, Xhosa, and tsotsi taal (gangster slang) describe life in
the townships and the experiences of the post-apartheid generation.
http://www.economist.co.uk/editorial/freeforall/current/index_mo9732.html
# A POPULAR GHETTO? Has the music of Africa has come of age in the West or
is it still the lure of the exotic that attracts? Beauty or beastiness:
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/03/03/timartfes01001.html?999
# FBI seizes teen-ager's computer - "coolio" denies everything:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564699588-3c6
# N.H. teen admits some computer hacking - denies DDos attacks:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2564714940-916
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