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# US, CANADA PLAN MASSIVE SLAUGHTER OF SNOW GEESE. OTTAWA (Reuters) Canadian
and US wildlife officials are banding together this spring to mastermind the
slaughter of millions of snow geese, outraging environmentalists who say the
plan is barbaric. http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/Reuters19990311_1952.html
: Today snow geese, tomorrow humans - if we can cull birds, why can't aliens
cull people? Have they been doing this already? Should the slaughtered birds
be fed to starving Sudanese? Are Sudanese being fed to Reptilioids? Tasty?
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# Games Beyond the Shoot-Em-Ups. We've seen the future of videogames, and
it's all about kicking, shooting, scratching, and shaking your booty. Kapow.
Kablam. Kablooey. http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/18416.html
: Should all conflicts be fought in cyberspace? Can international disputes
be resolved by total-immersion combat games? Do you wanna fry Castro's ass?
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# Wings to legs. (BBC) US scientists have genetically-engineered chickens to
grow basic "legs" instead of wings. Researchers at Harvard Medical School in
Boston, Massachusetts, took a gene normally found only in chicken legs and
transferred it to the forming wings of chick embryos. Dr Malcolm Logan: "We
have partially transformed a chicken wing into a chicken leg."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_295000/295277.stm
# Also: The future of genetic engineering:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_212000/212318.stm
# Organ 'farming' moves nearer:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_57000/57081.stm
: How many legs does a chicken need? Will 4- or 6-legged chickens gallop off
across the free-range? How many legs do YOU need? What gene.mods d'ya want?
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*** Man pleads in gay killings. LOS ANGELES (AP) A man accused of murdering
five gay men because he thought it would stop the spread of AIDS, abruptly
ended his trial by pleading guilty to the charges. Juan Chavez, 34, lured
the men to their homes supposedly for sex and then robbed and strangled
them. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558778707-0a3
: What epidemics would you try to control by killing people? Who would you
strangle to end the plague of stupidity, credulity, fuzzy-thinking, faith?
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*** Picture of Mars crater taken. PASADENA, Calif. (AP) Smile, Mars - NASA
is snapping your picture. The "Happy Face Crater" was captured in a wide-
angle image recorded by Mars Global Surveyor's camera. The feature, which
has a much more mirthful appearance than the better known but decidedly grim
"Face on Mars," is really the 134-mile-wide Galle Crater on the eastern side
of a basin called Argyre Planitia. Features within the circular crater form
the eyes and smiling mouth. In color, the picture has a bluish-white tone
caused by frost. The "Happy Face" was first noticed in images sent back to
Earth during the Viking 1 mission in 1976. ###
: Is Mars laughing at humans who believe that the "Face On Mars" is real?
How does the "Kermit The Frog On Mars" feature relate? Do planets cartoon?
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*** Ancient remains found in Cambodia. PHNOM PENH (AP) Human remains thought
to date back 2,500 years to the kingdom of Funan have been found in southern
Cambodia. The four skeletons and a wealth of artifacts, found 50 miles south
of the Cambodian capital, could shed light on a period of Cambodian civili-
zation that few have researched. Remains to be tested by carbon dating - see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558768386-ae3
: What's your favorite known or unknown ancient civilization? Which ancient
civilizations were created/influenced by ET aliens? Did they do any good?
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*** S. Africans unveil fossil species. JOHANNESBURG (AP) Researchers unveil-
ed a 260 million-year-old fossil that bolsters the theory that South Africa
was the place where scaly, cold-blooded reptiles evolved into the ancestors
of furry, warm-blooded mammals. The fossil is of a primitive sheep-sized
animal that lived along the shores of an inland sea before the age of dino-
saurs in what is now the Karoo Desert in southern South Africa. The fossil
was named Anomocephalus africanus, meaning "lawless-headed one of Africa."
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2558769497-d15
: Do you feel as if you're highly-evolved? Would you rather be a scaly cold-
blooded reptile, a furry warm-blooded mammal, a scaly hot-blooded dinosaur,
a metallic silicon-hearted machine, a wispy immaterial thought-creature?
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MICROSOFT TRACKING VISITORS. When you visit Microsoft.com, you might be
revealing more information than you think. The software company is making
critical user data available to its Web sites. With every move you make -
www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/technology/story/18405.html
: Do you mind being spied on by MS? Would you rather be tracked by MS, the
CIA, KGB, ATT, your mother, Reptilioids, the Unabomber, the Illuminati, me?
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# SYPHILIS THRIVES ON I-95. Public health officials in North Carolina have
mapped syphilis outbreaks over the last ten years, and found a pattern of
the disease on Interstate 95. It's like the old world, when sexual diseases
were spread along land and ocean trade routes - the interstate is our modern
equivalent. www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=10427
: Do ET aliens spread epidemics along their space-travel routes? Have you
contracted any alien diseases? Does Reptilioid plague bother you much? How?
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SkeptiLinks:
# News Of The Weird: http://www.capitolhillblue.com/weirdnews.htm
# Wild Side of Geoarchaeology: www.intersurf.com/~heinrich/wildside.html
# Beauty and the geeks. FEMALE TECH.EXECS FACE CRUEL CHOICES ABOUT SELLING
SEX APPEAL. www.salonmagazine.com/21st/feature/1999/03/cov_11feature.html
@ HOW TO TELL YOU'RE IN A CHEAP HMO:
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=10432
# High spots in history - Museum of London drug exhibition:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_294000/294756.stm
@ Museum of London: http://www.museum-london.org.uk/MOLsite/menu.htm
@ Campaign to legalise cannabis: www.ukcia.org/groups/clcia/clcia.html
@ Clearing house for drug/alcohol info: http://www.health.org/workpl.htm
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