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# Global disasters, disease escalate. KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Epidemics and
natural disasters are on the rise around the world, especially in underde-
veloped countries where expanding urban slums pose health hazards. Global
warming, deforestation, poverty and urban crowding in the developing world
are escalating the spread of contagious and deadly diseases and have left
populations vulnerable to natural disaster. An increasing number of people
are being affected by poverty, mass population movements, increasing bact-
erial resistance to antibiotics and emergence of new diseases like AIDS.
Scientists link global warming and other climate changes to altering dis-
ease patterns, including the emergence of diseases in places they hadn't
been before: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560059291-664
: What's your favorite disaster? Do disasters/plagues signify The End Of The
World; the need to go interplanetary soon; the need for population control?
Are disasters caused by humans, gods, demons, reality, aliens, robots, me?
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@ My Favorite Lobe. End-of-millennium science has given us a startling new
vision of the brain's topography. Eight of the world's leading experts
describe fascinating areas: http://www.feedmag.com/brain/favlobe.html
@ One Pill Makes You Smarter. Are memory drugs the next over-the-counter
revolution? http://www.feedmag.com/brain/shenk.html?alert
@ Next: cosmetic psychopharmacology: http://feedmag.com/brain/kramer.html
@ FreeWill, Alzheimers & ultra-Darwinism: http://feedmag.com/brain/rose.html
@ Brain Candy: http://www.feedmag.com/brain/links.html?alert
: What's your favourite part of your brain? Do you treat it well, abuse it,
ignore it? Do you want your brain to work better? Do alien implants help???
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# Ancient temple factory discovered. JERUSALEM (AP) 2000 years ago, masons
working in an underground factory - a cluster of caverns beneath Jerusalem
- carved stone mugs, dishes & wine jugs for priests serving in the nearby
Jewish Temple. Last week, a bulldozer clearing a road near the walled Old
City of Jerusalem fell into a hole, unearthing the ancient masonry & pro-
viding physical proof of ritual purity laws described in the Bible. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560058385-7b9
: Does your belief system have physical proof of the existence of its doct-
rines? Do you need proof? Do you need doctrines? Do you need ritual objects?
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# RETHINKING TECH EXPORTS. A former Cold Warrior says it's pointless for the
US to restrict techno exports. The money would be better spent on spying.
http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/politics/story/20396.html
# CRYPTO BOUND FOR MUSEUM BINS. Technology marches on. The US government's
former gold-standard cipher is now fit only for museums, sez a new report:
http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/20385.html
# CELL-PHONE CALLS STREAMED ON NET. Basement webcasters are using an AOL-
owned streaming service to pipe private cellular phone conversations out
onto the Net. AOL is digging into the issue. We can hear your every word:
http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/20405.html
: Can any agency or technology assure or pierce your privacy? Should we just
assume that everything we say/do/send can/will be intercepted? Do you spy?
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@ The Mean Spirit. As the idea of apocalypse looms, the evangelical attitude
toward non-believers has changed drastically over the years. "While pred-
icting the apocalypse may be a constant, the way evangelicals think about
it has undergone massive overhaul. The progression|regression is the move
from rural towns to the halls of power. It's the expansion of the evangel-
ical sphere of concern from the very local (my friends, my church) to the
national and global (my president, my world policy). It's a move from a
complex view of the individual to an oversimplification that identifies
everyone as good-believer OR bad-heathen. It's also a change in sentiment
towards the unbeliever from sadness, caring, and invitation to triumph,
judgement, and dismissal. It's a chilling mutation, and has entrenched
evangelical Christianity in an antagonism to secular America that borders,
at times, on cruelty." http://www.feedmag.com/deepread/dr200_master.html
: What realms of humanity do your belief system encompass? Do you embrace
binary or complex logics? Do you demonize those you can't absorb? Who sets
the agendae in your belief system? Why do you go along with them? When you
encounter info/ideas contrary to your doctrines, does your implant buzzzzz?
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# Jumping cats in Myanmar monastery. INLAY LAKE, Myanmar (AP) - Few places
exude a greater air of otherworldly abandonment than the 155-year-old Phe
Chaung monastery on the shores of this isolated lake. That was before the
world discovered the jumping cats. The half-dozen Buddhist monks here used
to train the monastery's resident cats to jump through hoops as a way of
dealing with boredom. Now, they have little time for tranquil meditation
as thousands of cat lovers from around the world come to see the trick. A
teak beam in the sanctuary is covered with tour company stickers, evidence
of attempts by the cash-strapped military regime ruling Myanmar (Burma)
to end decades of isolation and woo tourist dollars. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560051104-9f6
: Is your belief system boring? Does your belief system promote exploitation
of cats? Can you train cats to make crop circles? Do ETs implant cats? Why?
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SkeptiLinks:
# Good news for young earth creationists - universe younger than
thought: http://www.sciencenews.org/sn_arc99/6_19_99/fob7.htm
# Leader of Neo-Nazi group arrested - linked to fatal bombings:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560058082-fed
@ Philadelphia Experiment - Aliens, Time-Travel and Wormholes:
http://www.au.spiritweb.org/Spirit/philadelphia.html
@ Montauk Air Force Station - Active or Not?
http://www.mk.net/~mcf/montauk.htm
@ The US Military and Alternative Religions:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/5681/page2.html
@ Anomalous responses: Evidence for a reversal of the arrow of time:
http://www.psy.uva.nl/resedu/pn/PUBS/BIERMAN/1998/tucson/tucson3.html
@ Religious vomit:
http://www.cs.ius.indiana.edu/lz/rvest/web_docs/ReligiousVomit.htm
* Live PC Expo Coverage:
http://www.cnet.com/Digdispatch/dispatch436.html
http://www.cnet.com/Digdispatch/dispatch437.html
@ Aspartame (NutraSweet) scare disinformation:
http://www.dorway.com/reprtfrm.html
http://www.dorway.com/possible.html
http://www.dorway.com/asprlink.html
http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame
http://www.trufax.org/menu/chem.html#aspartame
http://www.dorway.com/books.html
http://www.dorway.com/amazon.html
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thousand pints of that chalky stuff they make you drink before taking
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