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# Virtual L.A.: A traffic-less trip - A virtual city could be valuable for
police and firefighters, quickly mapping the best route to an emergency:
http://cnn.com/TECH/ptech/9906/13/virtual.la/index.html
: Is Los Angeles or any other major city better visited in person or in VR?
For realism, should a sim include virtual smog, virtual drive-by shootings,
virtual street people, virtual random police actions, virtual earthquakes?
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# Researchers, mediums study communication with the dead. (U-WIRE) TUCSON,
AZ. A team of U.Arizona scientists & students conducted a unique experiment,
probing the possibility of an afterlife by studying how mediums commune with
the dead. Researchers at the U.Az. Human Energy Systems Lab invited a panel
of mediums to meet 10 people whose loved ones recently died. The mediums
tried to receive info from the deceased without prior knowledge of them
and while under observation. http://news.excite.com/news/uw/990616/odd-85
: Do you want to talk to your deceased relatives? Would you prefer they stay
quiet? Can you squeeze any secrets out of them? Do you trust mediums? Why?
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# NEW BIOTECH CANCER WEAPON NEEDS KICK-START. Imagine if we could send an
agent shooting through the bloodstream to find cancer cells and target
them for destruction, leaving healthy tissue intact. That is an overly
simplified explanation of an exciting new biotech approach to fighting
cancer: www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=13341
# Surgery continues into robot age. (BBC) A robot is being used to help
surgeons perform tricky heart bypasses more accurately - just the latest
in a series of innovations bringing such technology into the operating
theatre. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_370000/370836.stm
: Would you rather be operated on by nano-robots, macro-robots, humans, ETs,
teams of the above? Does your HMO or health insurer pay for robotic surgery?
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# NOT THE REAL THING: THE NOCEBO EFFECT IN EUROPE. The "nocebo" effect can
be seen in a recent panic about Coca-Cola products in Europe. No real health
problems have been found, yet several countries have restricted the sale of
the products after some teenagers got sick. I think once they heard about
the symptoms, they started thinking they were ill - the "nocebo" effect in
action. http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=13346
# ASPIRIN-LIKE DRUGS ARE 15TH LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH IN U.S. Aspirin and
related drugs kill almost as many people every year as AIDS and are resp-
onsible for a "silent epidemic." Ulcers caused by such drugs kill about
16,500 people in the United States each year. Includes ibuprofen, aspirin
and competitors: http://cnn.com/HEALTH/9906/16/health.aspirin.reut/
: Would you rather be sickened/offed by a placebo, nocebo, painkiller, pain,
dread, hired assassin, careless medico, gov't agent, deity, demon, elf, me?
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# GM crops a 'risk' to organic plants. (BBC) There is a "real risk" that GM
crops can contaminate organic crops, according to UK govt backed research.
See http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_371000/371353.stm
# Organic pesticide may aid GM crops. (BBC) A new, super-deadly pesticide
used by organic farmers may be of great use in the genetic modification of
crops. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_370000/370682.stm
: Would you like to see all lifeforms on Earth contaminated by genetic mods?
Would evolution accelerate? Would new, stronger, smarter entities emerge?
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# Country To Scrap Booze-Free "Holy Hour". DUBLIN (Reuters) Ireland, better
known for alcoholism than abstinence, looks ready to scrap its traditionally
dry "Holy Hour" with the announcement of a gov't-backed Intoxicating Liquor
Bill. The bill scraps Sunday afternoon closing, permits extended Saturday
night drinking hours and allow once-off all-night opening for New Year's Eve
to mark the year 2000. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990617/07/odd-alcohol
: Does your belief system prescribe or proscribe intoxication? Are certain
chemicals specified? Are your chemical-usage doctrines contradictory? Fun?
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# First cloned human embryo revealed. (BBC) Details of 1st human embryo to
be cloned are released - made using a cell from a man's leg and a cow's
egg. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_371000/371378.stm
# Chimps are cultured creatures. (BBC) Chimpanzees are shown for the first
time to have a culture as rich & as varied as humans. I'll be a monkey's
uncle: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_370000/370807.stm
: Should clones & chimps & AIs be considered fully human? Have they citi-
zenship rights? Should you be required to pass an IQ test for personhood?
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SkeptiLinks:
@ The Ice-Age Wars - The missing piece of Earth History:
@ Mind Control Energy attacks from the sky - cloacked spacecraft:
@ Mars and the Pyramids - torturing captured life to obtain Energy:
@ The WALL of Fire - Completely confusing good and evil:
@ Attack blew-up the Central Home Planet in the Pleiades, 4 mln years ago:
@ God and 100 billion people KILLED BY L. RON HUBBARD:
http://ambassadorformankind.org/ri-bulletins/livesessions.htm
@ Need to know how the universe works? See the physics FAQs:
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/faq.html
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~physics/sci.physics/faq/faq.html
http://www.weburbia.com/physics/faq.html
http://www.corepower.com/~relfaq/faq.html
@ Healing from Ritual Abuse and Mind Control:
http://www.totse.com/files/FA020/ritrecv.htm
@ FAMILY CHARTS OF FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT AND GEORGE H W BUSH:
http://www.totse.com/files/FA020/histchr2.htm
@ An Illuminati Outline of History:
http://www.totse.com/files/FA020/outline_001.htm
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Watching the wanton whales frolicking in the azure-blue sea off the coast
of Mendocino, Dorrick ruminated on the incredible year past, not without
some amusement, and then, hesitating only a moment before turning to his
wife, Griselda, waiting fretful as a fiddler beside him, he murmured,
"Don't they remind you of us, dear?" --Terry O'Neal
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