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# Russian satellite may have crashed. MOSCOW (AP) A Russian spy satellite
vanished from radar screens soon after liftoff and may have crashed in
Siberia. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560190421-99b
# Kazakhstan bans satellite launches. (BBC) Kazakhstan tells Russia to find
out why a satellite launch went wrong before it will allow further use of
the Baikonur cosmodrome. So Russia is up shit creek without a paddle for
now. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_387000/387008.stm
: Was the Russian failure due to incompetent manufacture/administration, ET
interference, Kazakh plots, HAARP deployment, divine|satanic will, weather?
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@ British Subversion of the US: Who is wagging your neighbor's tongue? The
militias and Pentecostalism. The greatest threat from terrorism in the
US comes from people who are associated with a British Church of England-
run Pentecostalist movement inside the US. It is this apparatus which has
structured the militias. This is the main source of terrorism and other
kinds of treason inside the US today. http://www.larouchepub.com/ahc.html
# 'Carrots' over the UK. (BBC) The small tornadoes seen over the UK in the
last 24 hours are more common than people realise. Not in Kansas anymore,
Toto: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_387000/387464.stm
Is the US exporting tornadoes to the UK in retaliation for UK control of US
terrorists, militias and other destabilizing forces? Will the war escalate?
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# First Global Inventory. An international team of atmospheric chemists has
produced the first gridded global inventory of reactive chlorine emissions
to the atmosphere, of interest because some of these compounds contribute
to the destruction of stratospheric ozone, some are toxic to humans, and
others are carcinogenic. So now we know just where all this crap is coming
from. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/07/990701122822.htm
# Taming a violent planet. An international conference in Geneva is assess-
ing how we can best protect ourselves against the impact of natural disas-
ters. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_386000/386600.stm
: Would you rather be destroyed by man-made or natural disasters? Is Earth
violent because of videogames, TV gore, religious repression, original sin?
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# FURBY: IT'S NOT JUST A TOY. Furby helps teach an autistic child to speak.
The boy's mother appeals to hackers to improve the toy's vocabulary.
http://wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/technology/story/20572.html
# Furry puppet turns up in ET search. (BBC) Hackers have got into the
SETI@home Website, putting up a picture of US TV puppet ALF. Bother.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_386000/386565.stm
: Is the Furby/ALF axis a successful implementation of mind-control technol-
ogy? Are you obsessed with talking furry puppets? What have they taught you?
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# Engineers Boost Tracking Ability Of Robotic "Eyes". By coupling the latest
computer vision and control techniques, engineers have developed a model
robotic system with enhanced ability to track moving targets in real world
environments. http://sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/07/990706071019.htm
# Study Looks To Nuclear Energy As Micro-Scale Fuel. Engineers have a new
scale in mind for nuclear energy: Rather than huge plants powering entire
cities, they envision tiny batteries turning a single microscopic gear.
Micropower: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/07/990706070354.htm
: Will advanced robotic eyes mostly be put in "smart" weapons? Will nuclear-
powered smart micro-weapons wipe out most life as we know it? Who'll notice?
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# FRENCH TWIST ON AMERICAN DREAM. WebSideStory is set to become one of the
Net's next titans. The secret of its success? Its French founder thinks
profits matter and America's sex hang-ups don't. And he's building a HUGE
database on millions of websurfers, where they go, what they do online:
http://www.wired.com/news/news/explode-infobeat/business/story/20571.html
# Similarity in diversity. (BBC) Researchers are looking at the similarities
and differences in the genes of humans and other organisms to learn more
about what makes us tick. But they haven't tracked down mental variances
yet: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_386000/386516.stm
: Are US sexual hang-ups genetic, cultural, accidental or imposed by outside
forces: aliens, demons/deities, mind-control rays, the Vatican, faeries, me?
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# Pagans find home on campus. Once a week at dusk, 10 to 20 students at the
University of Florida gather to commune with nature, the God and Goddess.
What brings them together is a pagan faith called Wicca -- and a 23-year-
old law student, Elizabeth Paul. She's co-moderator of the school's Pagan
Student Union and one of the increasingly visible worshippers across the
country -- and especially on college campuses -- who call themselves
pagans. http://www.detnews.com/1999/religion/9907/06/07060145.htm
: Are you a closet or out-in-the-open pagan, Wiccan, pantheist? If not, does
your belief system incorporate pagan elements, whether you know them or not?
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# First Complete Physical Map Of A Higher Plant Genome. For the first time,
a complete clone-based physical map of a plant genome has been published.
The map covers the entire nuclear genome of the higher plant Arabidopsis
thaliana. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/07/990706070919.htm
# Genetic Transport Machinery Found. Researchers discovered the 1st elements
of what is apparently a molecular signaling pathway vital for regulating
how genetic information leaves the nucleus to begin working as a blueprint
for the cell. http://sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/07/990706070513.htm
: What higher lifeforms would you like to genetically reproduce, reprogram,
reinvent? Do you want to snarl signaling pathways, leading gene.info astray?
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"She struggled to climb the rocky bank, and to be free of the heavy,
clinging mud that crushed me, pushed the air from my lungs, held me
pinioned like a vise, as sucking sounds of the mud reluctantly releasing
her heels mocked a dirge -- perhaps my last, I shuddered -- as she
stripped off her pantyhose, flung me a foot, and began to crawl slowly
toward the trees with the leg stretching until it twanged like a high-
tension wire and she disappeared from sight." --Dorothy J. Shannon
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