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# SERBIAN PARLIAMENT ACCEPTS KOSOVO PEACE PLAN. Serbia's parliament has
accepted the European plan to end the air war in Yugoslavia, raising hopes
that Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic will soon follow suit. But you
never can tell: http://cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9906/03/kosovo.peace.02/
: Will the war end due to parliamentary capitulation, NATO/Russian pressure,
ET manipulation of Milosevic's implant, CIA mind-control rays, God's will?
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# MIR TODAY, GONE TOMORROW. The Russian Space Agency says it'll scrap the
13-year-old space station, letting it burn up in Earth's atmosphere.
www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/business/story/19961.html
# EMPTY MIR A DANGER, NASA SAYS. Russia's plan to leave Mir unmanned while
the search for funding the aging craft continues is unwise, and possibly
unsafe, a NASA director warns. The on-board vodka still may explode, eh?
See http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/business/story/19987.html
: If abandoned, should homeless activists occupy Mir? Would you claim it for
salvage? Will hijackers commandeer it? Will it be tagged with graffiti? How?
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# 'LOST CONTINENT' DISCOVERED. Scientists have discovered the remains of a
"lost continent" beneath the waves of the Indian Ocean. Drilling by the
Joides Resolution research vessel, which traverses the seas extracting
samples from beneath the sea floor, suggests that the continent, about 1/3
the size of present day Australia, sank from sight only 20 million years
ago. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_353000/353277.stm
# '98 WEATHER DAMAGE TALLY HITS $92 BILLION. Record high temperatures in
1998 may have helped power the most damaging, costly storms ever recorded,
the Worldwatch Institute reported. "This past year was an off-the-chart
year." Yow: http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/Reuters19990531_948.html
: Does global warming promote continental subsidence? Have you ever lost a
continent? Have you ever melted a planet? Does it get messy? Do you care?
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# CABLE TV CHANNELS AS DATA PUMPS. By pumping data one way through unused
cable-TV channels, Internet Ventures thinks it can challenge At Home without
having to pay billions for an underground cable-wire network. Tell it to the
FCC: http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/business/story/19989.html
: As Earth goes wireless, is cable doomed? Does data-pumping get the cables
sticky? Would you prefer an IV of data, of opiates, or of Ringer's lactate?
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# JAPAN: MORE CRIME, LESS PRIVACY. The nation's increasing crime rate has
given authorities an excuse to tap personal calls and intercept email. Some
say the surveillance is nothing new. Others just drink more and read erotic
comix: http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/business/story/19973.html
# CRACKERS TARGET FEDERAL SITES. Computer crackers break into two gov't Web
sites and threaten more hacks unless the FBI stops "harrassing" hackers.
www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/politics/story/19955.html
# WARNINGS FOR WOULD-BE CRACKERS. The White House says breaking into gov't
computers is not play, and dot-gov attackers will pay. Meanwhile, federal
sites brace for future intrusions. Bureaucrats go home and have sex with
monkeys: http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/politics/story/19975.html
: Have you ever cracked a gov't site, or committed cyber crime, or monitored
someone's commo? Would you rather be attacked by hackers, cops, businesses?
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# MCGWIRE: ANOTHER BUST-OUT YEAR? Androstenedione, the drug made famous by
super-slugger Mark McGwire, increases the chance of heart disease and may
also cause breast enlargement, a new study finds. It takes a HE-MAN to wear
tits: http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/19985.html
# HEADACHES FOR SUPER-ASPIRIN? UK researchers claim a new breed of "super-
aspirin" will do more harm than good. Two have already been approved by the
FDA. http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/19976.html
: What's your favorite drug? Did you ever OD on it? Does it mess with your
alien implant? Does it help you make crop circles? Does it alter your body?
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@ Blue Planet: An Alien's Guide to Living on Earth - Chapter 4: Employment
and It's Consequences. To explain employment to you, it will be necessary to
condense centuries of economic theory into a short and simplified summary.
In brief: to interact successfully with humans, you will have to get a job.
http://www.ufomind.com/people/c/campbell/guide/employment/
# THINKING LIKE A SERIAL KILLER. Cops in the US Pacific Northwest turn to
artificial intelligence for help hunting down serial murderers and rapists.
www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/technology/story/19940.html
: Would you rather think like a serial killer, an ET, a serial-killing ET?
Has AI ever changed your thinking? Do you interact with humans? Is it fun?
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# 'THE OTHER Y2K PROBLEM'. Get ready for some millennial fireworks: Solar
activity hits an 11-year peak next winter, zapping satellites and creating
a spectacular northern light show. Polar bears do the frug, loco-motion:
www.wired.com/news/news/email/explode-infobeat/technology/story/19954.html
: Should I call off my Oct.1999 aurora-watching vacation in Alaska in case
northern lights go wild and fry satellites, sending one crashing down on me?
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@ Australian UFO Research Network: http://www.fan.net.au/~tkbnetw
@ Hantavirus: http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/hanta/hanta.html
@ WEB NEWS GROUPIES: http://www.dejanews.com & http://www.remarq.com
@ Hunting for ripples in space-time: : http://www.msnbc.com/news/274627.asp
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The tiny spaceship sputtered into view over the blue-pink horizon of Disney
World (which was of course founded a millennium ago by refugees of Epcot
Center) and after a momentary lurch and thud landed on the greenish-blue
springy turf, but unfortunately this immediately killed all the natives of
the planet, who look exactly like garden variety earth grass. --Mandy Slater
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