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# VIAGRA FOR WOMEN. On the theory that what's good for the goose is good for
the gander, a drug company in Mountain View, California has patented a
rub-on cream that is designed to combat sexual dysfunction in women. With
the commercial rights in hand, Vivus Inc. will now ask the US Food and Drug
Administration for permission to begin testing the drug, alprostadil, on the
female genitalia. The drug is applied topically and enhances orgasm by
dilating the blood vessels that feed the clitoris. Vivus also markets a male
version of the cream, Muse, which was all but obliterated by the success of
Viagra last year. http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/story/18348.html
# ORGASM CREAM: A PATENT DOESN'T A TREATMENT MAKE. Don't get too hopeful
that this new orgasm cream just patented by Vivus Inc. will be very useful.
This just seems to be more hype about a product that might never get to
market. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=10338
: Are orgasm aids scientific, demonic, unnatural, necessary, traditional,
demeaning, revolutionary, equalizing, worthless, inevitable, absurd, fun?
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@ EVIL HEX: We like supporting good karma, but sometimes... you just gotta
resort to that voodoo magic. That's right, we're talking about hexes, folks.
And - like most everything else - they have moved to the digital age. Boss
deny you that raise? Boyfriend break up with you? Send them a hex - in this
case, an e-mail with a message that says, for instance, "Shame on you! Shame
on you! Does your Mother know what you do?" or "Bubble, Bubble, Toil and
Trouble; Step on gum, on the double!" One word of advice: You might want to
use an assumed name in the From field. See http://www.evilhex.com
: Have you ever hexed anyone? Did it work? What method[s] did you use? Have
you ever been hexed? Do you suffer from torments of the damned? The darned?
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# CAT PSYCHIC: In New York City at the 15th Annual Feline Fete at Madison
Square Garden you'll find cat psychics, cat acupuncturist, cat therapists,
and cat aerobics instructors among others. Kitty aerobics instructor Caro-
line Scott makes $40 an hour to train owners and their cats. For $30, cat
psychic Lydia Hiby will communicate telepathically with a pet. All she needs
is the animal's name and a brief description. "I try to step into them and
become them for a minute." http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990226/09/odd-catshow
: Do you exercise or telepathically communicate or exchange acupuncture with
your cat or dog or other pet? Is it expensive? Is it fun? Can I watch? Huh?
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# NEW PILL MELTS AWAY YOUR CELLULITE - OR YOUR CASH? For $40 you can buy a
2-week supply of a mix of ingredients that aren't proven to have any benefit
and may even be harmful. But many women, anxious for an easy way to get rid
of unsightly cellulite, will probably be drawn to this product - even though
its claims of "increasing metabolism" and "eliminating toxins" are unsub-
stantiated. www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=10335
# POTENTIAL DANGER IN ASIAN HERBAL CREAMS. I've said before to be careful
about herbal creams from Asia - and now a study by English dermatologists
backs me up. They found a powerful steroid in eight herbal creams they
tested - a substance usually only available by prescription. Not all herbal
products are bad - but we have to use common sense and critical thinking
when it comes to buying these products. 'Natural' or 'herbal' does not mean
'safe'. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=10334
: Can your woes be fixed by herbal remedies? Have you ever consumed deadly
herbs? Did you live? Were they expensive? Would you rather ingest herbal
remedies or be experimented on by aliens, by CIA surgeons, by mutant ants?
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> NUCLEAR POWER CAN'T COMPETE, STUDY FINDS. Nuclear power generation has
reached its peak and will begin a sustained decline in the year 2002 to its
eventual demise, according to a study conducted by the Worldwatch Institute.
Boom days gone bust - http://cnn.com/NATURE/9903/09/nuclear.enn/index.html
: Are space aliens, international financial manipulators, gov't agencies or
noble environmental activists responsible for suppressing fission energy?
# NUKE PLANTS MAY NOT BE Y2K READY. The millennium bug could spell trouble
for backup power systems designed to cool potential meltdowns at nuclear
power plants. www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/18335.html
: Are the evil hackers who implanted the Y2K bug worldwide responsible for
suppressing fission power? Is this an intended or unintended effect? Why?
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*** Pentagon warns of cyber-terrorism. WASHINGTON (AP) - A top Pentagon
official warned Congress of an "electronic" Pearl Harbor by cyber-terrorists
and said the target is more likely to be commercial than military. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558734537-f95
: What cyber-targets would you most like to attack? Have you ever hacked a
site for fun, profit, ideology or because you were ordered to? When/where?
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Alien Art Stuff:
1) RAMGAR'S ART GALLERY - Alien Related: http://home.att.net/%7Eramgarjun
2) ALIEN ART of JEFF WESTOVER: http://www.alienalley.com/jeff.html
3) IMAGE LAIR: http://www.imagelair.com/
4) ALIEN/UFO ART GALLERY: http://www.AlienUFOart.com
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SkeptiLinks:
# Disaster Relief http://www.disasterrelief.org/Disasters
@ Students for Abolition of Mind Control:
http://www.utexas.edu/depts/dos/cci/orgs/02344.html
@ Criticism of Psychiatric Practices: Dope:
http://earthops.org/pshrink.html
@ Global Crisis Solutions: http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000
@ Global Peace Walk: http://www.egroups.com/list/global-peace-walk
@ Creationist propaganda: http://www.icr.org/pubs/imp/imp-282.htm
# The Millennium Time Bomb: http://www.ifas.ufl.edu/www/notebook/y2k/
# Astronaut UFO interview: http://www.people.co.uk/stories/A2510847.html
# JAMA Therapeutic Touch article, full text:
www.ama-assn.org/sci-pubs/journals/archive/jama/vol_279/no_13/joc71352.htm
@ The Fight Against Scientology: http://www.xenu.net/
@ Online Petition to Impeach William Jefferson Clinton Again:
http://www.impeachclinton.org/impeach/petitiono.html
# Disinformation? http://www.trufax.org/research2/disinforules.html
@ Klub Konformist at Yahoo!: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/klubkonformist
@ Water fluoridation plot: http://www.konformist.com/flicks/skfluoride.htm
# CAN VIRUSES SURVIVE IN WASTEWATER? Yes, they've been found to:
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=10339
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and toying with the idea of putting in a few hours' work; after all, he had
a lot of animals yet to name and the creature Eve was no help at all." -AJS
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