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# Serbian Orthodox Patriarch To Settle In Kosovo. The head of Serbia's
Orthodox Church said he is moving to western Kosovo and appealed to Serbs
not to flee the province. Patriarch Pavle made his announcement amid an
exodus from Kosovo of Serbs fearing reprisals by ethnic Albanians expelled
en masse from the province by Serb security forces. Kosovo's only Serbian
Orthodox bishop was among those fleeing for his safety. Out of the frying
pan: http://cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9906/16/BC-YUGOSLAVIA-PATRIARCH.reut/
: Does your belief system encourage self-sacrifice, martyrdom? Is Patriarch
Pavle angling for sainthood? Should all religious leaders be martyred? When?
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# Meningitis milestone reached. (BBC) Scientists have completed a DNA map
of the deadliest meningitis bacterium, preparing the way for new vaccines.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_371000/371547.stm
@ Links - Sanger Centre: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/
@ Meningitis Research Foundation: http://www.meningitis.org.uk/
: Would you rather make a meningitis vaccine, or build a better bacterium?
Does DNA mapping of pathogens let you grow stronger, faster, deadlier bugs?
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# Dusty Jupiter moon gives clues to interplanetary rings. Jupiter's moon
Ganymede is covered by thin clouds of fine dust knocked from its surface
by interplanetary meteors, scientists with NASA's Galileo spacecraft say.
The finding could explain the formation of dust rings throughout the solar
system, including some of the more obscure rings around Saturn, as well as
dust structures visible around Jupiter and its moons. Dust pervades the
solar system: www.cnn.com/TECH/space/9906/16/dust.on.ganymede/index.html
: Is interplanetary dust the debris left behind by highly-polluting UFOs; a
sign that a deity was too sloppy/lazy to clean up after itself; unhealthy?
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@ Physics from UFO Data. Research on the UFO phenomenon is proposed in which
UFO targets are treated on a par with astronomical objects having no fixed
coordinates. Specifically oriented monitoring techniques/strategies invol-
ving small telescopes connected to CCD detectors, spectrographs & photon-
counting photometers are presented. Expected exposure-times for acquiring
a good S/N ratio of the target using all the proposed instruments is also
evaluated. Finally, information expected to come from data analysis are
presented & discussed in detail. www.ufodatanet.org/report/ufophys_e.htm
: Have you ever engaged in rigorous UFO research? Have you ever suppressed
such research; disseminated disinformation; used coercive tactics; killed?
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@ What Are UFOs Really? Discussion of the true nature of ufos as exterior-
ised projections from the collective unconscious - within the Berkeleian
metaverse, of course. http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~ursa/philos/ufo1.htm
@ Psi Informatics - emerging field of studying psi phenomena from an infor-
matic perspective. http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~ursa/philos/psi-inf.htm
: Is a coherent philosophy all that's necessary to grok the paranormal? Can
you grow mental structures to contain the otherwise inexplicable? Is it fun?
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@ The Truth About Comet Lee. There have been some wild statements made about
Comet Lee [officially known as C/1999H1 (Lee)]. These are simply bogus,
false statements by people who must have some agenda other than the truth.
Truth: Comet Lee's orbit is not erratic; it is well-known. The comet will
not hit the Earth or come any place close to it. Comet Lee (or any comet)
won't cause coronal mass ejections. And Comet Lee's orbit is not affected
by them. The comet is not expected to brighten. http://encke.jpl.nasa.gov/
@ Also: Frantic BS: http://www.millenngroup.com/repository/cometary/lee.htm
: Would you rather that Comet Lee did or didn't destroy life on Earth? Would
you prefer another disaster? When? Are you trying to invoke a disaster? Why?
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SkeptiLinks:
@ Therapy for Adults Molested as Children: Beyond Survival
http://www.sidran.org/digicart/products/brta.html
@ A New Paradigm for Evolutionary Psychology: The Centrality of
Domain-General Mechanisms for Conceptualizing Human Adaptation:
http://www.csulb.edu/~kmacd/gearyrev.html
# Cypherpunk breaks CIA's crypto code in statue:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/06/biztech/articles/16code.html
# 'Thousands' massacred in Kosovo by Serbs:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_371000/371336.stm
# China rejects US apology - bombing of Beograd embassy 'not OK':
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_371000/371329.stm
@ UFO images? Judge for yourself:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atlantis/7247/Skyroglyphics.html
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atlantis/7247/KITEANDUFOS.html
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atlantis/7247/Deadjelly.html
@ Pieces Of An Enigma: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atlantis/7247/
@ Nonts: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atlantis/7247/Aboutnonts.html
# Swiss court: Dealing Ecstasy not serious - no evidence of health risks:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_371000/371499.stm
# Six diseases threaten world, says WHO - A small number of infectious
diseases cause half of all deaths among children or young adults:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_371000/371522.stm
# 'Undie-cover' wives catch cheating husbands. (BBC) Japanese women are
turning to off-the-shelf forensic science kits to catch cheating husbands.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_371000/371592.stm
@ You want prophesies? We got prophesies!
http://kingofterror.theunusual.net/
http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/
http://www.newage.com.au/library.pages/prophesy.html (Hopi)
http://prophetic.simplenet.com/
http://www.msnbc.com/news/240892.asp#BODY
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"As a heedless sapling recklessly scaling love's trick ladder (which had
since etched its Stygian pallor across my lifes history like scar tissue),
quantity, not quality, had been paramount; yet here in this unfortunate
boudoir, gazing upon Noreen's candid spheroids which shone between the
parted valences of her cascading hair like twin unicorns emerging from
the primeval boscage, my cranium reverberated with subtle insight: all
girls are not alike." --Chris Page
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