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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000209e - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE do NOT include the ENTIRE bulletin when you reply; cut/paste, eh? * No web portals were brought to their knees to produce this bulletin. Uh. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ CYBORGASMS link corrected: http://www.socio.demon.co.uk/Cyborgasms.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Space X-ray images out. (BBC) Europe's most expensive space observatory produces dramatic pix of some of the hottest and most violent parts of the Universe. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_636000/636349.stm # Also: XMM takes first snap: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_563000/563249.stm # Ariane soars to success: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_558000/558370.stm # X-raying the violent Universe: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_543000/543638.stm @ XMM UK: http://www.xmm.ac.uk/ @ Esa XMM: http://sci.esa.int/xmm/ @ Chandra X-Ray Home Page: http://chandra.nasa.gov/ @ Chandra X-Ray Observatory: http://chandra.harvard.edu/ : What are your favorite "hot parts" of the universe? Are they Web-filtered? How closely can you look at them? Are your eyes burning? D'ya like rilly hot violence? How much can you spend for good images? Will you share'em with us? # Super-Small Satellite Mission Succeeding: http://space.com/space/technology/jawsat_scorecard_000201.html # Student-Built Satellite to Hang by a Thread: http://www.umich.edu/~newsinfo/Releases/2000/Jan00/r012500b.html # Arctic SOLVE Mission Living Up to Its Name: http://www.enn.com/news/enn-stories/2000/01/01272000/solve_9467.asp _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 2nd-Hand Exposures Smoke Lower Than Believed. Exposures to environmental tobacco smoke may be lower than previously thought for bartenders and waitpersons: http://sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/02/000209074907.htm # British Doctors Say: Nicotine As Addictive As Heroin. Surprised? http://news.excite.com/news/r/000208/07/science-health-nicotine # Addictive Powers of Tobacco Examined - I'd rather have opium: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000208/14/britain-smoking-report : Are you addicted to 2nd-hand nicotine? Do you prefer nicotine diluted or pure? Have you ever ingested pure nicotine? How quickly did it kill you? Is nicotine your favorite insecticide? Have you smoked much insecticide lately? # McCaffrey: Drug trafficking threatens democracy. And war on drugs doesn't? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_636000/636713.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 98-million Americans exposed to monkey virus - going ape: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2000/02/002bookchin.htm @ BONOBO: This primate shares a 98% genetic profile with humans. Get this: the species is female-centered and substitutes sex for aggression. This directly challenges our assumptions on male supremacy in human evolution. http://songweaver.com/info/bonobos.html [ via http://www.camworld.com/ ] : What's your favorite aspect of your primate heritage? Have humans gone too far in the direction of male domination? Is balance needed? Would you rather be dominated by males, females, aliens, robots, me? Is humanity a virus??? @ Every horny young man's worst nightmare: http://www.therulesbook.com/ @ Damn, it looks like we missed http://www.gencor.ca/events/buyback.html the Semen Buy Back Program. [ via http://www.memepool.com/ ] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ HackaRama: # Internet sabotage spreads. (BBC) Online brokerages E*Trade and Datek as well as web publisher ZDNet are the latest victims of a well-organised campaign to bring big websites to their knees. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_637000/637094.stm # Hackers Take on Buy.com - spoil the IPO party: http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,34222,00.html # Yahoo on Trail of Site Hackers - FBI probing: http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,34221,00.html # Was Yahoo Smurfed, Fragged, TFNed, or Trinooed? http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,34203,00.html # Routers Blamed for Yahoo Outage - or are they: http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,34178,00.htm @ Attacks: Govt Provocation? Expanding surveillance: http://slashdot.org/articles/00/02/08/0344217.shtml @ Who's Doing What, With Which, To Whom, For Why? http://listserv.syr.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0002L=foi-lF=S=P=9484 @ How-2 Hack, Crack, Slash And Burn: http://dogpile.com/texis/search?q=TFN+Stacheldraht+trinoogeo=nofs=web @ Is IBM's discontinued WinCE laptop a great deal at $300? http://www.byte.com/printableArticle?doc_id=BYT2202S0003 # A Frenzy of Hacking Attacks - any apparent motive? http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,34234,00.html # 'If We Find Them, They'll Pay' - or will they?
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #5
-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- SkeptiNews 000119e - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question * Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. * Nothing contained here is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy, or meaning. * PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BULLETIN WHEN YOU REPLY; CUT/PASTE, EH? * No during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Y2K Gals: http://www.konaka.com/alice6/dollhouse/img/wall/enamel_wall.jpg _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Man to wire himself to Internet. SAN FRANCISCO /PRNewswire/ -- In 1998, a silicon chip was implanted in Kevin Warwick's arm. For 9 days following, the cybernetics pioneer was monitored by a computer programmed to respond to his actions via signals transmitted by his implant. Next: an implant that will send signals between his nervous system a computer, providing an unprecedented window into his body. If successful, he'll place implants in two people at the same time, hoping to transmit movement and emotion signals from one person to the other ... via the Internet. Telepathy, effectively: http://www.globetrax.com/globedaily/content/011800_02.html : Do you want to be wired into a global/galaxywide network? Is that better than drugs, sex, autonomy? Is net.telepathy the ultimate mindcontrol? Who's funding the research? What do they get out of it? What does it cost us all? # Italian Radical Party politician convicted for giving out free hashish: http://www.charlotte.com/topnews/pub/hash.htm @ WACO, MINDCONTROL, FLOURIDE, RITALIN AND PROZAC: http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=1195 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # New chip is fast mover. (BBC) Secretive company Transmeta come into the open with speedy chips for mobile web browsing. It's about time: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_61/610195.stm # Also: Intel forges chip alliance: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_608000/608178.stm # Pentium III bug in new chips: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_546000/546368.stm # Fastest PC chip unveiled: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_541000/541510.stm : Will realtime mobile browsing be enough? If your net.linkage goes buggy, how will you die? Do deliberate chip.bugs enable control of users? By whom? # GPS Targets Guns. (Wired) A new satellite system is tracking gunshots in the South-central Los Angeles neighborhood, one of the toughest in the city. L.A. police plan to test the system for the next 6 months to see if technology can succeed where the usual methods -- notably phone calls to 911 -- have failed. http://wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,33518,00.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Ban the Web? Not Lubavitch Jews. (Wired) The Ultra-Orthodox rabbis who banned Internet use made a lot of news a couple of weeks ago, but another sect, the Lubavitch, want it known that they love the Web very much. Mazel tov: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,33626,00.html : Does your belief system promote high-speed communications, widespread lin- kages, multimedia presentations? Will you survive as others go extinct? How? # REPUBLICANS: PRAISE GOD AND PASS THE ELECTORATE! During a recent debate in Iowa, the Republican presidential candidates elbowed each other aside to invoke a higher power. http://chblue.com/2000/01/17/a/-0001-iowa.asp _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Biggest Dinosaur Believed Dug Up in Argentina. BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) The bones of what may be the largest dinosaur species yet known were found by a villager in a vulture-ridden series of canyons in Argentina's southern Patagonia region: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000119/09/odd-dinosaur : What's your favorite dinosaur? What's its relation to y'r Reptoid masters? Why are modern Reptilioids so small? Have you ever had sex with a Reptoid?? # Giant found in dinosaur graveyard - Argentine villager hits paydirt: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_609000/609829.stm # Hackers attack dinosaur auction - ruin it for everybody, the sods: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_608000/608634.stm # Dinosaur 'lost world' discovered - pterodactyls carry off explorer: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_216000/216105.stm # Nesting in the mud - and you can avoid expensive spa/resort prices: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_216000/216284.stm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Male Sex Genes Evolve Faster - Need to Procreate Is Strongest Force. Sci- entists have found new evidence supporting Darwins theory that the desire to mate is the strongest driving force behind evolution. Researchers said genes linked to mating in male monkeys and humans have evolved much faster than other genes because of competition and pressures to find a mate. www.abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/geneevolution000119.html http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/ucmc-gpt011700.html # Ears found on
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #5
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990922e - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : I dreamed I saw Saint Augustine during the production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ Multicolor-Text Art: http://www.orchy.com/dictionary/bigdic-t.htm @ AnaCam AnaGram: http://anacam.com/anagram1/index.html _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Abductions - The Truth. Since the modern era of abductions began with the Barney and Betty Hill UFO close encounter of September 19, 1961 in New Hampshire, ufology has never been the same. Before the Hills' encounter, UFO sightings were investigated in a prescribed, straight forward manner that involved gathering supporting evidence while simultaneously trying to disprove a witness's account. http://www.sightings.com/ufo4/abduct2.htm : Is disproof impossible? Does only a moron try to prove a negative? Have you gathered sufficient evidence? Have you gone to another place and time? @ UFOs Through The Ages... A Timeline: http://www.sightings.com/ufo4/historyofufo.htm @ FIRE OFFICERS GUIDE - Disaster Control and UFOs: http://www.channel1.com/users/cci/disaster.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Group promotes standards for 'connected home'. NEW YORK (Reuters) It may not be the Jetsons, but building a "wired" home is becoming easier than you think. A major consortium claims to have devised an easy, affordable standard for wiring homes to efficiently handle everything from heating to lighting to Internet access. "Wiring America's Homes" for less than $2000; see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561271212-ba9 : Would you rather wire your house, your head, a head for a reservation, the White House, the Kremlin, Buckingham Palace, the celestial city, eels? Why? # Taiwan Quake hits computer chip plants - prices to rise: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561271602-c75 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ IF WE BUY BODY ORGANS, WHO IS GOING TO SELL THEM? If we pay for egg and sperm donations, and if people are dying waiting for a new kidney, why shouldn't a kidney donor or donor's family get some compensation as well? http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=17307 @ WILL THE CLONERS PUT THE ORGAN SELLERS OUT OF BUSINESS? Yes, if cloning research is allowed to advance without restrictions, then we could develop the ability to grow new organs - and make debates on buying/selling organs moot. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=17284 : What body parts would you like to buy, sell, rent, lease? Would you prefer to clone or be cloned? What's your favorite organ? Electric or acoustic? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # 2100 AD - Cornell Study Warns Of A Miserable Life On Overcrowded Earth. ITHACA, N.Y. -- 100 years from now, democratically determined population- control practices sound resource-management policies could have Earth's 2 billion people thriving in harmony with the environment. Lacking these approaches, a new Cornell U. study suggests, 12 billion miserable humans will suffer a difficult life on Earth by the year 2100. Only you can prevent overbreeding: http://www.sightings.com/politics4/miserable.htm : Do you like lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of neighbors? Eh? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # North Bay rattled by 4.2 magnitude earthquake. ROHNERT PARK, Calif -- A moderate earthquake measuring 4.2 in magnitude rattled Sonoma County on Wednesday, but no damage or injuries were reported. Full USGS report: http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/nc40105370.html : I was 3 miles from the epicenter when it happened - why didn't I feel it? Am I numb? Did my implant misfire? Did the mind-control rays hypnotize me?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: @ The First Hypertext Edition of The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: http://www.bibliomania.com/Reference/PhraseAndFable/index.html @ Is the End near? Check out the track-record of doomsayers: http://www.primenet.com/~heuvelc/skeptic/predictions.htm # Pope pledges Holy Land visit - vows to exorcise demonic Muslims: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561271852-9b7 # Dolphins face uncertain future - hurricane renders them homeless: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561265295-624 # Americans Less Secure Against Terrorism - Threat Grows: http://www.sightings.com/politics4/terrorism_p.htm @ Office of Human Radiation Experiments (OHRE) (DOE) Home Page: http://tis-nt.eh.doe.gov/ohre/ Human Radiation Experiments Archives: http://hrex.dis.anl.gov/ Stakeholders: http://tis-nt.eh.doe.gov/ohre/roadmap/events/stakeholders/ # Feds Want Long Island's Plum Island To Be Deadly Test Center: http://www.sightings.com/politics4/fedswant.htm # Challenging UFO Secrecy
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-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990915e - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No hysterical amnesiacs were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ SETI@Home, or SETI Makes Clones?!? If you've downloaded this screensaver, please, disconnect it now! There's a replica of you growing out there, and if you don't stop now, you might be REPLACED! If you turn off the screen- saver, you will stop the clone from reaching maturity. I only hope that I turned mine off in time... http://www.aliensaliensaliens.com/cgi-bin/render_article.pl?article_id=59 : Do you run SETI@Home? Have you been cloned? Have you been replaced yet? Do you like being cloned? Are the rest of us being cloned? Am I a clone? Woops! _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Minister: "soulless" wealthy-living to blame for vandalism. PHILADELPHIA. 44 young people - most of them teens and all from what police described as affluent families - were criminally charged in connection with a beer bash in which partygoers trashed a $1 million luxury home that was under const- ruction in Solebury, Penn. Pastor Rev. Stuart Spencer said the community's wealth may well have contributed to the crime. "Affluence can be a wonder- ful thing but it can also create a souless kind of living." Satan laughed. http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/99/Sep/15/front_page/NTRAS15.htm : Are you wealthy soulless? Are you poor soulful? Are the rich damned? Is that why they have all the fun while they're alive? Are you damned? Why? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # MEET THE DISNEY-OBSESSED: Just about every Disney weirdo showed up at the ConventionEars bash in Florida. There was the man who has been divorced 5 times because of his "single-minded devotion" to Disney; the guy with 927 Disney tattoos on his body; and the couple who call themselves Mickey and Minnie Baus. One word: Frightening! Another word: merchandising. http://www.sptimes.com/News/91499/Floridian/My_kingdom_for_a_Mick.shtml : Are you obsessed? Do cartoon characters fill your consciousness, dominate your life, chart your destiny? Is your alien implant misfiring? How badly?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Artist plans Jerusalem ice wall. SEATTLE (AP) An artist who creates fanta- stically colored works of glass plastic is sending 64 tons of ice blocks from an Alaskan well to Jerusalem, where they will be stacked into a 60- foot-long wall just outside the Old City. Dale Chihuly's vision is that tensions in the MidEast someday will melt like his ice wall in the desert sun. The wall, of course, will come down much faster than barriers between Jews and Arabs in Israel - it should only last about a week. B... http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561156802-fce # Sculpture invades Champs Elysees. One of Earth's most famous roads turns into an art gallery as a contemporary sculpture fest opens in Paris. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_447000/447751.stm : Are you inspired to sculpt? Should your art melt? Are you eagerly awaiting the solar explosion that will melt all our art, all our cares, all our joys? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # US multi-births increasing. WASHINGTON (AP) The number of babies arriving in twins, triplets more has increased markedly in the last two decades as fertility drugs soar in popularity and women wait longer to have their children. The increase is particularly striking among older women. Yow. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561159703-a46 : Have you had any multiple births lately? Are they fun? Do you breed like a weasel? Did you use fertility drugs? Will your litter be abducted by aliens? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Hormonal recall - Oestrogen gives women's memories a real boost. WOMEN DE- PRIVED OF OESTROGEN suffer from memory lapses that vanish when the hormone is replaced. The findings are a convincing demonstration that oestrogen has a beneficial effect on cognitive circuits in the female brain. Are males crippled? http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990918/newsstory7.html : Do you remember more think better when your hormones are flowing? Do you have enough hormones? Have aliens/demons/Illuminati/robots sucked you dry? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # We're On the Eve of Destruction, U.N. Warns. Environmental chaos is just around the corner, but our leaders may lack the will to stop the slide. http://www.pathfinder.com/time/daily/0,2960,30956-101990915,00.html # Hurricane Floyd and the Fed: Happy Together. (Time) A big hurricane may be just the thing to calm Greenspan's inflation worries. Really? http://www.pathfinder.com/time/daily/0,2960,30976-101990915,00.html : Are you in a position to benefit from environmental disaster? How will you profit from chaos? Is global warming good for the economy? Are ETs happy?? _ _ _
[CTRL] Skeptic News - Wednesday #5
-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990811e - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. : No intergalactic voyageurs were harmed during production of this bulletin. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Forecaster: Y2K still likely to spark recession.(Reuters) Despite progress fixing the Y2K computer glitch, there is still a 70% chance that it will spark a global recession, sez top U.S. economic forecaster Edward Yardeni. "Y2K could cause another energy crisis" and possible breakdowns in the "global just-in-time manufacturing system" due to weak links in the supply chain. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560655216-d99 : Are you ready for the upcoming global meltdown? Is it inconvenient? Fun?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ TEST YOUR PC FOR Y2K COMPLIANCE. In about 5 minutes, and for free, you can check each of the various date-related subsystems in your PC and thus know for sure and for real -- regardless of what the chain e-mail letters may tell you -- whether or not your PC or OS has a Y2K problem. And if there is a problem, chances are you can fix it easily and at low cost. It's all detailed here: http://www.winmag.com/library/1999/0101/fea0061.htm : Are you compliant? Are you worried? Should you be? Is the end coming soon? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Bugs From Space To Spice Up New Russian Yogurt. LONDON (Reuters) Russians will soon be able to combine healthy eating with history by tucking into a yogurt containing bacteria taken from the saliva and guts of some of the space program's most distinguished astronauts. Gaa-gaa over Gagarin goo: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990811/14/science-science-yogurt : Do you want personalized food products? Do the voices in your head insist? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # GM plans 'Web car' for 2000. DETROIT (AP) General Motors will offer voice- activated Internet access in cars by the end of next year in a campaign to morph Earth's largest automaker into a "global e- business enterprise." GM plans to sell vehicles online and package them with an array of on-board services via satellite. Within 5 years, in-car services such as Net access and CD-quality satellite radio broadcasts could generate revenues for GM in the range of $4 billion to $6 billion annually. Then they'll buy Micro- soft. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560656036-4ba and http://www.wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/business/story/21204.html : Do you websurf while driving? Is it exciting? Would you rather have wire- less commo devices in your pocket, in your car, implanted in your head? Why? # PARALLEL PARKING UNDER THE RADAR. Motion sensors on cars could be key safety devices for future drivers and pedestrians. Right now, they're still just a luxury. But is hospitalization really less expensive? http://wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/technology/story/21211.html : Should cars know where you are even if the drivers don't? When will most autos be smarter than most drivers? Are they already? Will cars take over?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # For a fit brain, drive mit mittens. RALEIGH, NC (AP) Ever try driving with y'r mittens on? Sniffing vanilla or peppermint first thing in the morning? Brushing your teeth or eating with the "wrong" hand? Choosing potatoes at the grocery with your eyes closed? A team say the brain needs novelty and multisensory experiences to stay sharp. They propose those activities as part of their brain fitness regimen, which they call "neurobics." Lively brains: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560667294-254 : Do you stimulate your brain unnecessarily? Does your alien implant do that for you? Do you perform nonstandard behaviors? Do people think you're nutz? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # Counter-Terrorism Rewards Program. Bureau of Diplomatic Security, U.S. Dept of State has a link of rewards for information on a host of terrorist acts around the world. The U.S. State Department added Milosevic and any Serbs who engaged in genocide. Albanians, who can identify these people provide information that bring terrorists to the War Crimes Commission's Court, can get $5-7 million. http://www.heroes.net/indexorigin.html : Who would you turn in, for how much? What reward would you need to deliver bin Laden, Saddam, Slobo, me? Would you turn in your alien masters? Where?? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # More Extraordinary UFO Events In Vancouver BC: http://www.sightings.com/ufo4/vanco.htm @ 1964 Ann Arbor UFO Photos Given New Hi-Tech Analysis: http://rush.digitalchainsaw.com/ufo.html # Chickens May Spark Asian Flu Pandemic: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990811/05/science-asia-flu # Ukraine to study its Bach archives: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560656524-9ab @ "Liberal Opinions" - columnists: