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# Reform Jews pelted at Western Wall. JERUSALEM (AP) Angry that men & women
were praying together, ultra-Orthodox Jews pelted Reform Jews with plastic
water bottles at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site. 4 people were
arrested in the attack. One Reform Jewish woman was slightly injured after
being struck in the head. Orthodox Judaism prohibits men and women from
praying together. www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559631564-3e9
: Did the psychedelic Hasids I hug out with in my youth have it wrong, what
with men & women together? Does your belief system promote: gender segrega-
tion; violence against those with minor doctrinal differences; plastic jugs?
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# Afghan thieves lose right hands. KABUL (AP) The right hands of four young
men, all convicted thieves, were cut off before a crowd of several hundred
people in Kabul Sports Stadium. The men sat on the rain-soaked grass, their
legs bound by chains and their faces covered with their turbans, while three
doctors wearing surgical masks performed the amputations. "This is Islamic
law..." http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559631447-067
: Do you like to watch amputations? Where? Does your belief systems promote
handlessness, mutilation, surgical masks? Should such punishments be broad-
cast worldwide? Would they get good ratings? Who'd advertise on the show?
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@ HEAVEN IN A CHIP. Biology is not destiny. It was never more than tendency.
It was just nature's first quick and dirty way to compute with meat. Chips
are destiny. http://www.datamation.com/PlugIn/issues/bestof/heavenchip.html
: Do you prefer to evolve chemically, genetically, socially, electronically,
spiritually, mentally? Which mode of evolution is fastest, most efficient?
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# Teachers shoot pupils in S. Africa. DURBAN (AP) - A teacher and principal
opened fire on angry high school students in South Africa, killing one pupil
and injuring 2 others. The shootings happened at a highschool about 30 miles
south of Durban after teachers refused to give students refunds for a field
trip. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559630643-014
: What violent videogames & music & movies drove these disturbed adults into
their rampage? Is Durban the target of mind-control rays? Did alien implants
misfire? Is the wave of school shootings expanding? Are your teachers armed?
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# Relations in space similar to Earth. WASHINGTON (AP) Astronauts someday
may slip the bonds of Earth and race across the heavens toward new planets,
but they're going to take along the all-too-human emotions that plague ever-
ybody else. After a few months of tight confinement in space, irritability
tends to set in. Leadership erodes, cliques develop and everybody gets mad
at Mission Control back on Earth. Outbursts of emotion may be inevitable in
outer space, but experts are developing ways to teach the astronauts how to
cope. See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559626560-6b1
: Should space crews be: taught Zen meditation; tranquilized; encouraged to
have group sex; armed; lobotomized; implanted; sterilized; redecorated? How?
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# Pueblo Indians reuniting with bones. SANTA FE, N.M.(AP) Scores of Pueblo
Indians retraced their tribe's past, making an 80-mile trek to Pecos Pueblo
to unite with bones of their ancestors. The Indians followed a route taken
by their ancestors 160 years ago, when disease and warfare decimated Pecos
Pueblo. Now they'll meet the truck that is bringing home the bones of 1,912
people excavated between 1915 and 1929 in New Mexico's upper Pecos Valley
by archaeologist Alfred Kidder. The pueblo plans a burial ceremony at the
monument. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559628015-2d3
: Would you like to unite with the bones of your ancestors? Will they lead
you into a bright future? Is heritage more important than development? Why?
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