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# Dolly goes to market - Future medicine? Cells and even body parts grown to
order. (BBC) The US biotechnology company, Geron, has acquired the rights to
the technology used to clone Dolly the sheep. They intend to combine it with
their expertise in cell technology to clone patients' cells for transplant.
If successful, this would enable "spare parts" to be used to treat diseases
such as strokes, Alzheimer's disease and muscular dystrophy. Stock'em up -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_335000/335870.stm
@ Links: BBSRC: http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/
@ Roslin Institute: http://www.ri.bbsrc.ac.uk/
@ Geron Corporation: http://www.geron.com/
: What spare parts of yourself would you like to have cloned? Could you use
a spare brain, pancreas, heart, testicle, ovary? Should clones be implanted?
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*** Dinosaurs grew wings but why? (AP) - The ancestors of birds may have
evolved wings not for flying but for running faster, suggests a study that
may answer a key question about origins of bird flight. Many scientists feel
birds descended from two-legged dinosaurs like Velociraptor, featured in
"Jurassic Park." The problem has been explaining how the clawed dinosaur
forelimbs developed into the wings of the first known bird, Archaeopteryx,
which lived 140 million to 150 million years ago. Some of these dinosaurs
must have had limbs that resembled wings, but not enough to allow them to
fly. If they couldn't fly with them, why have wings? See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559437392-ed9
: Would you run faster with or without wings? How would you like to evolve?
Does your belief system accept evolution? Will your faith evolve? Into what?
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# THANKS BUT NO TO GENETIC TESTING. More than 200 people who are at-risk for
hereditary colon cancer turned down the opportunity for genetic testing.
This Georgetown U. study illustrates why genetic testing like this needs to
be accompanied by counseling that addresses the psychological factors
involved in testing, such as fear of genetic discrimination and loss of
privacy. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=12013
: Who should look at your genes? Are you concerned about genetic privacy?
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*** Clinton proposes privacy controls. WASHINGTON (AP) - Contending many
privacy laws have been overtaken by the information age, President Clinton
urged Congress to bolster the rights of consumers when banks and other
financial companies seek to share or sell information about them.
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559426499-dcf
: Who should look at your financial/personal data? Have you been violated?
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*** Gore announces Internet safety plan. DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) Major U.S.
Internet companies have agreed to offer parents faster access to technology
allowing them to control and monitor children's on-line habits, VP Al Gore
said. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559428513-d8d
: Who should control online access? Does data access relate to mind control?
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# Aryan Nations Beliefs. WE BELIEVE in the preservation of our Race,
indiv-idually and collectively, as a people as demanded and directed by
Yahweh. WE BELIEVE our Racial Nation has a right and is under obligation to
preserve itself and its members. WE BELIEVE that Adam, man of Genesis, is
the placing of the White Race upon this earth. Not all races descend from
Adam. Adam is the father of the White Race only. WE BELIEVE that there is a
day of reck-oning.
http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/aryan0219.html
: Does your belief system grant you superiority and dominion over others? If
you turn out to not be superior, does this damage your belief system? How?
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SansComment:
*** Racists convicted of murderous plot. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Two white
supremacists accused of plotting to set up a whites-only republic in the
Pacific Northwest were convicted of murder, conspiracy and racketeering.
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559426440-edc
*** Turkey lawmaker with scarf to return. ISTANBUL (AP) Turkey's first law-
maker to wear an Islamic head scarf to Parliament said she will return and
take her oath despite being booed out during swearing-in. Merve Kavakci
wears a scarf because of her faith, but Turkey's establishment sees head
scarves as a political statement defying the nation's secular principles.
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559426222-068
*** Iranian hard-liners losing battle. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) The
hard-line clergy that has wielded absolute power in Iran for 20 years is
losing a power struggle against reformists fighting for greater democracy.
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559425495-ee4
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SkeptiLinks:
@ Anglo Celt - http://anglocelt.homepad.com
@ Be part of the Apocolypse: http://people.goplay.com/GoNuclear/
@ ZetaTalk: In Whose Service: http://www.zetatalk3.com/myths/m27.htm
@ ZetaTalk: Star Seeded: http://www.zetatalk3.com/beinghum/b39.htm
@ Online experiment results: http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/parapsychology/
# Dioxin Exposure Linked to Cancer - no added risk to general population:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559425333-2a0
# NATO's war for Kosovo is pressing the edges of "information warfare":
http://www.consortiumnews.com/050499a.html
# Florida Keys Awash in Sewage - Don't Go Near The Water:
www.abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/floridakeys990504.html
# Russia, U.S. Working in Space - even as nuclear showdown looms:
www.abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/spacestation990504.html
@ The Great Satan 'Eblis' in Islamic Sufi tradition:
http://gate.cruzio.com/~darvish/us/KNP/books/Eblis.html
@ See the nuts on the 'net at "Quintessence of the Loon":
http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/peterb/loon
@ Earth Alert: http://www.discovery.com/news/earthalert/earthalert.html
@ Southwest Volcano Research Centre: www.goodnet.com/~ej76707/cerupt.htm
@ Current Eruptions: http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/current_volcs/
@ Toxics News for the Net: http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/oppt_nb.txt
@ GreenFest 2000 - A Millennium Renaissance for Human Powered Mobility:
http://www.bikeroute.com/NBG2000
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