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# China's secret manned spacecraft revealed. (BBC) Pictures of the secret
rocket and space capsule that China will use to put a man in space have
been revealed on the Internet. It is a serious lapse of the high security
surrounding China's plans to put a man into space. Spying on China:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_365000/365934.stm
# Also: China to test 'space shuttle' in October:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_342000/342936.stm
# Chinese manned spaceflight probable:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_286000/286931.stm
@ Links: China Space Shuttle:
http://www.usembassy-china.org.cn/english/sandt/prcspace.html
@ Dragon in Space:
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/1921/
: Would you rather go into orbit atop a US, Euro, Russian or Chinese rocket?
Who'll have better food, sexier stewardesses, higher tech, tighter security?
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# Japan delays launch of lunar probe. TOKYO (AP) The launch of Japan's first
lunar probe will be delayed for at least three years because of defective
equipment. The launch of the Lunar-A - originally planned for the summer of
1997 - had already been postponed twice by the Institute of Space and Astro-
nautical Science due to mechanical problems. Sensors cracked, destroying
measurement circuits and making it impossible to collect some data. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559868142-008
: D'ya prefer Chinese, Japanese, Western spacecraft? Are aliens, Americans,
Armenians zapping the Japanese space effort? Who benefits if Japan fails?
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# FEDS BATTEN DOWN THE ONLINE HATCHES. A growing wave of hacker attacks on
federal World Wide Web sites, including an attack that resulted in the FBI
shutting down its site for more than a week, has raised agencies' awareness
of their vulnerabilities and spurred efforts to increase their online secu-
rity. As a result, agencies recently have upgraded their security products,
set new security policies and changed systems' architectures to keep one
step ahead of hackers. No web system is completely secure, especially
yours: http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9906/09/batten.idg/index.html
: What gov't agency do you most like to attack? Do you attack the gov't on
your own, or at the behest of your masters? How are you rewarded? What else?
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# Millions at risk from deadly bug. (BBC) 70% of people at risk from the po-
tentially fatal pneumococcus bacteria have not been vaccinated against the
bug. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_365000/365149.stm
# TUBERCULOSIS CASES BALLOON IN RUSSIA, COULD SPREAD. Cases of tuberculosis
are increasing in Russia, prompting fears that the disease could spread
worldwide, Russian and international health officials said. Nearly 25,000
died last year: http://cnn.com/HEALTH/9906/09/russia.tuberculosis.reut/
# UK Government damps down blood virus fears. (BBC) The Department of
Health says there is not enough evidence to screen blood donors for a
newly-discovered virus that some scientists have linked to liver disease.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_365000/365234.stm
: What's your favorite plague? Will humanity be felled by a plague? Which?
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# Potential haemophilia cure (BBC) A genetically engineered virus may offer
a long-term treatment - or even a cure - for the most common type of haem-
ophilia. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_365000/365093.stm
# Coffee may prevent gallstones. (BBC) Drinking caffeinated coffee can
reduce the chance of painful and dangerous gallstones developing, says a
study. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_363000/363860.stm
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# Russia rehabilitates dead royals. MOSCOW (AP) - The Russian prosecutor
general's office officially rehabilitated four members of the royal Romanov
family Wednesday who were executed by the Bolsheviks after the Russian rev-
olution. The posthumous rehabilitation was extended to Grand Prince Pavel
Alexandrovich, a son of Czar Alexander II, and grand princes Nikolai Mik-
hailovich, Georgy Mikhailovich and Dmitry Konstantinovich, nephews of the
czar. The princes were declared enemies of the state and executed in the
Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg Jan. 24, 1919. Safely dead:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559864041-ff7
: Does this clear the way for the restoration of monarchy in Russia? Will
the Imperial banners fly again? Will other royals regain power? Where?
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SkeptiLinks:
# House again bans abortion pills - US Congress favors population explosion:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559857903-864
# Rite Aid Chain accused of selling old condoms, foods, medicines, tests:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559859189-0e1
# British men bite off driver's ear, say it tastes like chicken:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559861770-e85
# Diana: Conspiracy Plots Thickens:
http://www.londonnet.co.uk/ln/talk/news/diana_conspiracy_news.html
# A Mouse That Roars? Waging CyberWar:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/dotmil/arkin.htm
# Microsoft to release Windows update - still squashing bugs:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559864660-1dc
# Ocean warming may threaten salmon - marine food chain is fried:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559852050-48c
# WARMER OCEANS KILLING MARINE LIFE - shrinking human food supplies:
http://cnn.com/NATURE/9906/09/marine.life.reut/index.html
# Butterflies react to global warming, moving north over last century:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559862734-8ef
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