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# Parents Charged With Abuse In Wasp Death. TAMPA (Reuters) The parents of a
2-year-old boy stung to death by wasps face child abuse charges because they
waited hours before calling for help. Harrison Johnson of Melbourne, Florida
was stung more than 400 times by yellow jackets. Investigators were told by
friends of the parents they might have delayed calling for help because of
their religious beliefs. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990511/10/odd-wasps
: Does your belief system promote faith-healing? Is death just a sign of
weak faith? If your deity doesn't answer your prayers, are you like f*cked?
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# Woman Jailed For Cutting Off Corpse's Hand. BRADENTON, Fla. (Reuters) A
former funeral home director was sentenced to one year in jail for cutting
off a dead man's hand as part of a Voodoo-like ritual 2 years ago. It's not
exactly communion: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990511/10/odd-hand
: Does your belief system promote dismemberment? Is death just a resource, a
way to re-stock your supplies? What do you do with extra body parts? Where?
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# Genetics link Africa's Lembas to Jewish priests. The Lemba, a Bantu-speak-
ing people of southern Africa, have a tradition that they were led out of
Judea by a man named Buba. They practice circumcision, keep one day a week
holy and avoid eating pork or piglike animals, such as the hippopotamus. A
Lost Tribe? http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,85002051,00.html
: Do you trace your ancestry to the Lost Tribes Of Israel? Were they really
lost, just misplaced, overlooked, or hiding? Do you avoid hippopotami? Why?
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# US Military Develops Less Deadly Weapons. Goop guns, aerial stink bombs,
metal-eating microbes, computer viruses are weapons of the future, as the
Pentagon tackles a host of new conflicts worldwide. Arsenal for the 21st
century: http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/weapons990510.html
# Pentagon's man stresses depleted uranium risk. (BBC) The man who headed
the US clean-up of depleted uranium in the Gulf says it is a serious health
risk. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_340000/340944.stm
: What's your favorite newish weapon/munition? Are depleted-radioactive
rounds fun to watch? If metal-eating microbes devour them, do they glow?
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# Supermodel Schiffer Drapes Church Tower. BERLIN (Reuters) A larger-than-
life advertising banner featuring German supermodel Claudia Schiffer was
draped over Berlin's landmark Memorial Church in a controversial move to
fund repairs. An American cosmetics company sponsored the renovation of the
church's 174-foot-high bell tower with $130,000 in exchange for the right to
hang the giant banners featuring the blonde beauty and other models on the
tower's scaffolding. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990511/10/odd-banner
: Whose picture would you like to drape across your religious edifice? Nude?
Would your holy structures make good billboards? Can you use the money? How?
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# Sperm offers life cover. (BBC) The sperm of the male rattlebox moth
provides its mate with a sexually transmitted chemical "life insurance"
that safeguards her from predators, scientists have found.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_340000/340324.stm
# Lab builds largest bio-molecule. (BBC) The biggest designer protein yet
created is reported by US scientists. Strung together from amino acids:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_340000/340345.stm
: Do you want to build new proteins, new sperm, new lifeforms? Do you have
any designs in mind? Will you share them with us? Are they aesthetic, kewl?
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@ Of Myth And Men. (TIME) A conversation between Bill Moyers and George
Lucas on the meaning of the Force and the true theology of Star Wars.
http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,23298,00.html
@ Also: Picture Guide: The characters, the creatures and the weaponry:
http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/starwars/index.html
@ Jedi Or Not, The Phantom Menace Is Coming!:
http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,23302,00.html
$ Books on Star Wars:
http://barnesandnoble.bfast.com/booklink/click?sourceid=16268&categoryid=sta
rwarspromo
: Are movies the best sources on contemporary theology? Is movie theology
always marketed, always expensive? Is this the best theology now available?
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SkeptiLinks:
@ Euthanasia: news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/health/euthanasia/basics.stm
# Couple Dies After Having Sex In Hearse - fun while it lasted, until
smothered by fumes: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990511/10/odd-hearse
@ Cloudbusting with Orgone: http://www.sixstrings.freeserve.co.uk/Orgone/
# Thai masseurs, medicos say traditional herbs & massage cure male impotence
just as well as Viagra. news.excite.com/news/r/990511/10/odd-impotence
# Protests Reach Cyberspace - Hackers Attack US Sites, Establish Their Own:
www.abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/kosovo_chinacyber_990509.html
# Internet castaways find food - life *can* be lived online, sort of:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_339000/339059.stm
# Mexico volcano erupts, prompting evacuations. Colima Volcano sprayed
lava: http://cnn.com/WORLD/americas/9905/11/mexico.volcano.01/
# Early elephants used 'swimming trunks' - originally lived in water and
used their trunks as underwater snorkels - evolved from manatee-like mam-
mals: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_340000/340286.stm
# Surveyor Resumes Mars Mapping - but antenna glitch may limit mission:
www.abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/marssurveyor990506.html
# Science, Religion Finding Common Ground - but not everyone is happy about
the dialogue: http://www.sltrib.com/1999/may/05091999/nation_w/104147.htm
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"After a courting couple strolling across Hamlet-upon-Rye's town common had
stumbled upon the first corpse, pierced through the heart with the stake
from the 'Please Curb Your Dog' notice, the Chief Constable, Col. Sir Duncan
Wright-Ffoule, was confident his local men could discover the perpetrator;
but when the first corpse was soon followed by a second, spun-dry in the
launderette on Market Street, Sir Duncan reflected that perhaps is was time
Scotland Yard should be called in." --Lucy Shores
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