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# Scientists try to grow brain parts. BOSTON (AP) Scientists want to fix the
things that go wrong inside your head. The plan: Grow replacement parts for
broken brains. They make it sound easy. Just brew a batch of gray matter.
Drill a hole in the skull. Put in the new stuff. Wire it up like the orig-
inal. Voila! New brains. Despite its whiff of mad scientist run amok, this
scenario is surprisingly close to reality. Researchers can already do amaz-
ing things with mouse brains. And as they so fondly and frequently point
out, mice really are an awful lot like us. Some human experiments already
hint at what's possible, and have shown remarkable results. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559385945-9a2
: What new brain parts could you use? Would you like a total replacement, or
just partial? Would you prefer injections of human, animal or alien brains?
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@ REMOTE SIGHT. With the opening of the Celestial Eye, some people may
acquire remote sight, which enables them to see things a thousand miles
away. Everybody has his own world in which he is as large as the universe.
In this specific world, in front of his forehead there is a mirror which
cannot be seen in our physical world. The mirror is available for everybody,
but a non-practitioner's mirror faces himself. From _China Falun Gong_ by
Li Hongzhi: http://www.falundafa.org/book/eng/flg_143.htm]
: How far can you see with your eyes closed and your mind open? Do you see
the outside world, the inside world, or just your own surface? Is it shiny?
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*** Weather patterns, warming linked. (AP) - Scientists looking for signs
of global warming should spend more time scrutinizing Earth's weather circ-
ulation patterns, a new study suggests. Researchers who studied northern
winters since mid-century found a weather pattern favoring typically milder
winters was two to three times more likely to arise in the mid-1990s than
around 1950. The findings suggest global warming blamed on human industry
is manifesting itself not just by causing a global rise in temperatures but
by also favoring certain established weather patterns. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559397251-a0f
: What weather patterns would you like to change? If you control weather, do
you also control economics, politics, religion, human population? Is it fun?
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# Healing mental illness the traditional African way. (BBC) Traditional
healers may be able to plug gaps in primary mental health services in
Africa, according to Anglo-Ugandan research. But training is necessary
to ensure "unacceptable" practices are not used - see
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_332000/332641.stm
@ Links: Royal College of Psychiatrists: http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/
@ Professional Association of Traditional Healers:
http://www.biz-1.com/path/PATH.HTML
@ Traditional healing:
http://www.tucson.ihs.gov/PublicInfo/Archives/Director/tradup.asp
: What is your favorite traditional mental health treatment? What is your
least favorite unacceptable practice? Are alien implants better than Freud?
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# Pope beatifies Italian monk. VATICAN CITY (AP) - In a ceremony that drew
one of the Vatican's biggest-ever crowds, Pope John Paul II moved Padre Pio
one step closer to sainthood Sunday, beatifying the mystic Italian monk whom
even the pontiff has turned to for miracles. A quarter-million attendees,
see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559397269-4d0
and http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559404540-f4d
# ITALY'S MYSTIC MONK - PROPHET AND PROFITS. SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO, Italy
(Reuters) - He wrestled with the devil in his monastery cell and predicted
events in the lives of visitors. He knew what penitents were about to
confess and was seen in two places at the same time. He was investigated
and rehabilitated twice by the Vatican and cleared of charges of sexual
misconduct and fraud. He's the subject of more than 200 books and 3000 Web
sites. Two popes viewed him with suspicion, 2 others with reverence. He's
the SuperMonk: http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/Reuters19990428_1129.html
@ A monk who had wounds that would not heal and who could cure the sick
has been beatified by the Pope. But do you believe in miracles? Respond:
news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/talking_point/newsid_332000/332621.asp
: What miracles would you like to perform? What saintly actions do you do?
If you're beatified on TV, what share of the ad revenues do you want? Why?
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SansComment:
# Turkish parliament set off by scarf. ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - Hundreds of
members of Turkey's new Parliament banged on their desks and screamed "Get
out!" when a female deputy showed up Sunday in an Islamic head scarf. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559402545-81f
# New Ebola epidemic. (BBC) A new epidemic of the deadly Ebola virus has
appeared in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and threatens to enter Sudan.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_334000/334090.stm
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SkeptiLinks:
# Diving crew finds U.S. space capsule: www.msnbc.com/news/264969.asp
and http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559400151-03b
and http://cnn.com/TECH/space/9905/02/grissom.capsule.ap/index.html
# Climber lost in 1924 found on Mt.Everest - may have reached peak:
http://cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9905/02/everest/index.html
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559403192-0b7
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_334000/334220.stm
# Russia probing synagogue attacks - ultranationalist party suspected:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559399838-4b1
@ 16 Color Cinema: http://www.16color.com/
@ Save the Amazon: http://worldwildlife.org/amazon/
@ Illuminati News: http://user.tninet.se/~gbl020q/illum_index.htm
@ China Falun Gong: http://www.falundafa.org/book/eng/flg.htm
@ The Journal of Esoteric Studies: http://www.esoteric.msu.edu/
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of the hill and watch the laser cannon's flaming tongue lick a black line of
decay across the jagged teeth of the castle towers and urged his ocean of
followers to the assault ladders with the cry, 'Serfs UP!'" --Michael Miller
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