-Caveat Lector- SkeptiNews 990123a - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question # ONLINE, IN UTERO. In a trial dubbed Womens Card, pregnant women are given a smartcard which contains vital medical information like age, due date, allergies, last prenatal visit, and medications. Doctors can retrieve this information by swiping the patient's card through a reader machine. Wired - see http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/17488.html : Ca/should/must information flows be tracked in medical interactions? -Ric @ Popo-rama: AS POPE ARRIVES IN AMERICAS, LINGERING QUESTIONS ABOUT VATICAN AGENDA, CORPORATE SUPPORT - Meltdown In St. Louis? - Media Monopoly Hype, Stifled Civil Liberties - Out Of Control? Beyond Reality? American Atheists report - see http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Cafe/5840/AANEWS-01-22-99.txt : Can/should/must money/power flows be tracked in religious institutions? -R # Clinton Combats Cyberterrorism. The prez drafts a plan to battle 21st century terrorism, including biological and chemical warfare and hacker attacks. See http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/17494.html or http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_260000/260855.stm : Can/should/must a secure society be built while maintaining freedom? --Ric # Technology? Yes please, say Britons. (BBC) British people believe techno-logy will improve their health but may limit their privacy in a decade's time. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_261000/261015.stm : Is better health worth less privacy? What's the cost of immortality? -Ric # Challenges for a new century. Over the next few days, more than 5,000 scientists and policy makers from the US and around the world will gather to discuss a multitude of topics from biological warfare to cosmology. news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/specials/anaheim_99/newsid_260000/260604. stm : Who controls the future? Is the future controllable? Is policy meaningful? *** Elvis lives - in Sumerian language. HELSINKI, Finland (AP) Elvis lives, even in the long-dead language of Sumerian. A Finnish professor who has recorded two albums of Elvis Presley songs translated into Latin now plans to record some of them in Sumerian, a language that died out about 4,000 years ago. Jukka Ammondt said the first track he plans to record is "Blue Suede Shoes." In that Sumerians had neither suede nor shoes, per se, the title translates as "Esir Kus Za-gin," literally "sandals of leather of the color of a blue gem." Sumerian, used in the lower Euphrates River valley in what is now Iraq, died out as a spoken language in about 2000 BC. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558147951-72a : How do you say "Viva Las Vegas", "Heartbreak Hotel" and "Teddy Bear"? -Ric # Elvis virtually live in concert. No impersonators - Elvis is about to perform live for the first time ever in Britain. Nothing but a hound dog - http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/newsid_260000/260667.stm : Who's more popular: Elvis, Jesus or Hillary? Who'd get the best crowds? -R # 21st-Century Movie Stars To Go Digital. ANAHEIM, Calif. (Reuters) No more artistic disagreements. No more demands for multimillion-dollar contracts or fights over top billing. The movie star of the 21st century will be a perf- ectly obedient computer program, predicts an executive at Walt Disney Co. Faking it totally - see http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990122/17/odd-movies : Would it be best if we were all simulations? Are we already? Really? -Ric *** Girl's 'miracles' investigated. WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) - Roman Catholic investigators haven't been able to establish whether wondrous happenings attributed to a disabled girl are definitely miracles. They are satisfied the peculiar events are no flimsy hoax. "I don't know," Bishop Daniel P. Reilly said. "These are things you have to live with, even though we don't like to do that in this day and age." The girl has been comatose since she nearly drowned at age 3. Visitors to her home say statues of Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary appear to weep as they inexplicably ooze oil. Walk slowly - http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558147668-3bf : Do your religious icons ooze oil, water, salsa, cola, tequila, brine? -R # Church leaders urge ban on Sunday morning youth sports. Children need time to worship, say several local church leaders in calling for a sports ban. No more soccer - http://upway.com/cgi-bin/readnews?day=99_01_22&item=#917016024 : Is praying healthier than athletics? Do bans work outside theocracies? -R # The more the fitter. (BBC) Scientists say there may be evolutionary advantages if children have more than one "father". Daddy daddy daddy - news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/specials/anaheim_99/newsid_261000/261037. stm : How about more than one "mommy"? Is group marriage the ideal? For who? -R # The source of Martian water. (BBC) Scientists may have solved the problem of where the water came from that flooded Mars billions of years ago. Splish splash - http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_259000/259915.stm : Was it runoff from Noah's flood? Ballast from the Mothership? 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