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# "Stellar Sonogram" Of Star In The Making. Astronomers have captured the
first images of the very earliest stages of a "dark cloud" - the coldest
astronomical object in the universe - becoming a new star and planetary
system. The images, akin to a deep-space sonogram of a baby at the zygote
stage, give a glimpse of what was happening when our own solar system came
to life. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/07/990713140217.htm
: If you'd conceived a star, would you want total strangers taking sonograms
of you? Would you complain to the appropriate deities? Are we doomed now??
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# 2ND AUGUST - INDEPENDENCE DAY? UFO Magazine [UK]: Aliens will land on 2nd
August! London taxi driver 'John' picked up some Microsoft executives. As
John drove through central London his ears picked up when he overheard the
executives talking about UFOs. Between using their mobile phones, he heard
the men say that the United States had to reveal all they knew about UFOs
by 2nd August or there would be a mass alien landing! He heard mention of
'six crashed saucers' and 'Roswell'. A good actor? A fanciful hoax? Make
of it what you will. http://www.ufomag.co.uk/ID2.htm
: Are you ready for the mass alien landing? Is your neighborhood crowded al-
ready? Would a mass of aliens be intolerable? Where should they go instead?
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# SEX: New weapon against cranberry pests. BOSTON (AP) Who knew sex could be
such a powerful weapon against hungry cranberry-eating pests? A new pest-
fighting weapon interferes with moths' mating rituals. "Moths are going to
have to take lots of cold showers." Bidding is fierce among micro-shower
contractors: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560278871-150
: Does your belief system encourage you to sexually distract and manipulate
your competitors? Have you been sexually misled, damaged, warped? By whom?
Can mutant cranberry-eating pests be reprogrammed to create crop circles?
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# Viruses 'steal bacteria DNA'. (BBC) Scientists believe that viruses may be
able to make themselves deadlier by invading bacteria and stealing their
DNA. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_394000/394740.stm
# Also: Government damps down blood virus fears:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_365000/365234.stm
@ Links: Public Health Laboratory Service http://www.phls.co.uk/
: Whose DNA would you like to steal? Should you be charged with Grand Theft
Genetic [GTG]? Would you become more deadly? Is this evolution in action??
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# Scientists To Demonstrate Spontaneous Speech-To-Speech Translation In Six
Languages. PITTSBURGH - The Consortium for Speech Translation Advanced
Research (C-STAR) will hold an international video confab to demonstrate
a travel planning system on the Web that Uses groundbreaking computer
speech-to-speech translation technologies that will translate among six
languages at six different locations around the world. Some cursing is
planned: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/07/990714073759.htm
: If we all understood each other clearly, no matter what the linguistic or
cultural differences, would we like/love/hate/pity/ignore each other more??
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# LASERS POWER WIRELESS NET. Lucent debuts a wireless technology that uses
lasers and amplifiers to transmit huge amounts of voice and data through
the air. It will be handy in places where fiber-optics can't be installed.
http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/20731.html
: Do webs of lasers already beam past you recklessly? Does your every motion
interrupt data flows? Does proliferating laser pollution disrupt our brains?
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# HUNGARY BANS X-FILES. THE X-Files mystery television series is to be taken
off Hungarian screens after the country's highest court ruled that it may
damage children's mental health. The supreme court in Budapest said the
paranormal adventures of the American federal agents Scully and Mulder had
"a negative impact on the development of young children" and banned any
broadcast before 11pm - Hungary's watershed for violent or sexually
explicit programming.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000118613908976&rtmo=pQ1e14ee&atmo=99999
999&pg=/et/99/6/20/wxfile20.html
: Did the Hungarian gov't succumb to forces trying to suppress revelations
of conspiracy/collaboration depicted on the X-Files? Is the truth In Here?
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SkeptiLinks:
# Moscow man admits anti-Semitic attack - opposed to Judaism:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560281293-886
# Massive Jewish exodus from Russia - pushed to emigrate by concerns
of Russia's weak economy, political fears and anti-Semitism:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560283046-1db
# State sues supremacists - World Church of the Creator probed:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560285687-670
# Judge strikes down fish symbol use - it blurs the separation of church
and state and creates an uncomfortable environment for non-Christians:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560280050-c34
# Peru captures last remaining Shining Path guerrilla leader:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560284583-ad6
# France celebrates Bastille Day - commemorates the storming of Bastille
prison, starting the French Revolution and ending the French monarchy:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560284438-e8e
# Huge China army parade in Xinjiang - restive Muslims intimidated:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560284096-37f
# US Air Force spent $270,000 on kitchen for Academy superintendent:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560279316-4b0
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greasy, cracked paving-stones slick from the sputum of the sky, Stanley
Ruddlethorp wearily trudged up the hill from the cemetery where his wife,
sister, brother, and three children were all buried, and forced open the
door of his decaying house, blissfully unaware of the catastrophe that
was soon to devastate his life." --David Chuter, 1999 B-L grand prize:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560278921-d66
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