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*** Makah Indians hunt for whale. SEATTLE (AP) 7 Makah Indians in a 32-foot
cedar canoe began hunting for gray whales Monday, the tribe's first try this
spring to go on a traditional whale hunt that had been banned for 70 years.
The whalers had intended only to go on a practice run in the Pacific Ocean
near Neah Bay. But protesters followed, so the tribe issued a 10-day hunting
permit requiring other vessels to stay at least 500 yards away. As arranged
with the Coast Guard, the Makah can declare the zone for safety reasons.
"So now we've got a whaling permit, so we're going hunting." Kill, kill,
kill for tradition: www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559500604-408
: Does your culture/faith/heritage promote killing endangered species? Would
you mind if endangered species hunted, killed you instead? Would it be fair?
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@ Devil in the details. "Five or ten years ago, I used to hear about grand
conspiracies and smile. I was wrong. Very, very wrong. In the wake of years
of study, interviews, and critical analysis, I have learned (and believe)
that hardly anything happens by chance. Conspiracies DO exist, and to
arrogantly discount their existence, intentions, and results, is myopic,
pretentious, and stupid." Everything you thought you knew is wrong, too:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_metcalf/19990510_xcgme_devil_deta.shtml
: What is your favorite conspiracy? Are you part of it? Would you admit it
if you were? Do you control information about your conspiracy? Is that info
true? Are well-known conspiracies real, or just diversions from the reality?
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# Trash From Crop-Processing Plant Harvested For Cures. Instead of traveling
to Brazil's tropical rain forest or diving into the ocean, a team of scien-
tists are looking for disease-fighting compounds closer to home, harvesting
potential agents from the trash piles of byproducts at crop-processing
plants. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/05/990510064003.htm
# Understanding Earth's Subsea Forests: California Kelp Demography. They
share many of the same qualities as old growth forests, but the only way to
really appreciate these magnificent places is through the lens of a diving
mask. Sometimes encompassing several miles of area with towering vegetation,
thick canopies, and abundant wildlife, these underwater forests are exotic
turf to the average weekend hiker. Exploring one of earth's largest kelp
forests: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/05/990510064157.htm
: Would you rather look for bioinfo in rubbish heaps or whilst skindiving?
Which Grand Conspiracies will interfere with your searches? Will they kill?
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*** Radiation on southern India coast found. AZEEKKAL, India (AP) More than
100,000 poor villagers live in a small coastal region of southern India that
is unusually rich in naturally occurring radioactive materials. The result:
a constant bombardment that bathes them with up to 30 times more radiation
than most people on Earth receive. Most residents of the 77-square-mile area
are only vaguely aware of the situation. They spend their days eking out a
living oblivious to a war of words and statistics between environmentalists
who say the radiation is killing them and gov't scientists who say there is
nothing to fear. www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559502358-fa7
: If Earth irradiates you, would you blame Terra, Gaia, your deities, fate?
Would you sue? Would you cherish your mutations? Would you promote tourism?
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# Star-Studded Photo Album Delivered To Internet. A colossal assortment of
star-studded, galaxy-filled pictures and information - enough to fill the
hard disks on hundreds of home computers - is contained in the first major
data release from a telescope sky survey sponsored by NASA and the National
Science Foundation. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/05/990510064654.htm
: Is this: real information; Reptilioid-doctored disinformation; a flashy
distraction from NASA/NSF/CIA mind-control/HAARP projects; a trippy show?
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SkeptiLinks:
@ The NSA Bot: http://jya.com/nsa-bot.htm"
@ Illuminati News: http://surf.to/illuminati_news/
@ Continuity of Consciousness: http://members.home.net/tcocp/
@ Crypto: A5/1 Pedagogical Implementation: http://jya.com/a51-pi.htm
@ Does science kill soul? http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge53.html
# Modern-day martyrs - Many are killed daily throughout the world for
believing in God: www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,85001827,00.html
# Ministers want white supremacist group to move - it's not really a
religion: http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,85001763,00.html
# Stolen Cross Turns Up - 13th-cent gold Ethiopian relic found in Belgium,
to be returned soon: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990511/10/odd-cross
# Christians, Muslims fighting over half-acre site in Nazarath:
# Mar Thoma Syrian Church excommunicates author for "denigrating Christ":
# ROMANIAN CLERIC REGRETS HIS TIES WITH COMMUNISM - "I consciously accepted
collaboration: http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,85001742,00.html
@ Tornado devastation: http://www.redcross.org/news/inthnews/99/5-5-99.html
# OCEAN STUDIED FOR CO2 STORAGE: http://cnn.com/NATURE/9905/10/oceans.enn/
# Viagra rival has disappointing tests - sponsors need more time to prove it
works: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559498710-5a6
# CIA blew it: www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559499443-5f8
# Genocide? http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559497579-911
# Clinton OKs Chinese rocket launch - sez "not much technology transfer":
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559499517-848
* Satellite still short of orbit - Orion another costly failure:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559500794-c88
* Russia set for impeachment debate - Yeltsin's foes rant on & on & on:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559498490-115
* N. Korea says 220,000 died in famine - the price of isolation, socialism:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559498672-3ba
* Born-again Xian Khmer Rouge torturer/mass-murderer to be witness:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559498858-340
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"Had I but known then what lay before me - my discovery of Aunty Tibby's
terrible secret and of the headless ten-year-old corpse so cleverly con-
cealed behind the set of Richard Harding Davis in the library, the gruesome
crossbow suicide of one of my dearest childhood friends, and my own close
brush with death on that rainswept nightmarish night, which left me a nerve-
shattered cripple with therapy bills not covered by medical insurance - I
might not have gone to spend Christmas with the Whitleys" --L.H. Sintetos
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