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# Preacher Can Clean Toilets To Avoid Trial. BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) A judge
told Argentina's best-known television preacher to chose between cleaning
public bathrooms for 2 years or standing trial for alleged criminal fraud.
Televangelist Hector Gimenez faces charges that he defrauded a worshiper
at his "Good Waves" shrine, illegally selling the worshiper a house using
a bogus contract. Gimenez's shrine also includes a shopping mall, beauty
salon, car rental firm and game room. Giminez's deity was unavailable for
comment. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990719/08/odd-argentina-preacher
: Do you buy real estate from televangelists? Do you trust televangelists?
Do you trust their deities? Would you buy real estate from a deity? Where?
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# Pope insists on Iraq visit. AMMAN, Jordan (UPI) Pope John Paul II insists
on visiting Iraq next year as part of his religious pilgrimage to mark the
third millennium. The Pope will include Iraq in his tour of the region de-
spite US/Israeli pressure not to do so. "The pontiff has informed everyone
that his visit is a religious pilgrimage and not a political one, and no
party, no matter how strong, has the right to interfere in the Vatican's
affairs." http://news.excite.com/news/u/990718/10/international-pope
: Do you have a right to interfere in Vatican affairs? Does the Vatican have
a right to interfere in your affairs? What Vatican plot do you want to foil?
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$ HQ2O: WATER FROM CYBERSPACE. HQ2O is natural spring water from the fount-
ains of cyberspace. Q2O is tap, filtered or spring water taken from the
corporate headquarters of such high-tech firms as "Yahoo!", "Wired" or
"Tripod". Each bottle of HQ2O contains water from a corporate water cooler
which can then be diluted with natural spring water or any other beverage
of your choice for a unique drink experience. http://www.hq2o.com
: Is this the holy water of the 21st century? Are you more blessed with H2O
from Yahoo!, Wired, MicroSoft, Toshiba, Genentech, IBM, VaticanOnline, me??
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# Scientist Stirs Dispute On Stuff Of Life. (Reuters) ZURICH (Reuters) Craig
Venter, the US scientist accused by critics of trying to license the stuff
of which life is made, sees nothing wrong with using business sense along-
side science to crack the genetic code. Your DNA could be a corporate
asset: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990719/00/science-health-celera
# Viagra Gives Plants A Boost. JERUSALEM (Reuters) The lifespan of plants,
fruits & vegetables could be doubled with doses of the impotence treatment
drug Viagra, but the cost would be punitive. But they would die happy.
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990719/00/science-plants-viagra
: Who owns the stuff of life? Who owns the life of plants? Do plants have a
right to be happy? Does your DNA have a right to be happy? Do you? Why not?
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# World's biggest X-ray telescope rivals Superman's vision. CAPE CANAVERAL,
Fla. (AP) The biggest, mightiest, most expensive X-ray telescope is about
to embark on a five-year voyage to gaze deep into the hearts of galaxies
and search for signs of black holes. Chandra X-ray Observatory, a 4 1/2-
story colossus due to launch with shuttle Columbia, is 10-100 times more
powerful than any of the dozen or so X-ray telescopes previously placed in
orbit. If words glimmered in X-rays, Chandra could read a newspaper from a
half-mile away or make out the letters of a stop sign from 12 miles away.
"We can make Superman jealous, I guess, with our X-ray vision" - NASA.
http://www2.nando.net/noframes/story/0,2107,71714-113387-803944-0,00.html
: Who is your favorite superhero? Does s/he have psychosexual problems? Is
s/he human, alien, divine? Have you built any instruments that match/exceed
his/her/its powers? What superpower(s) would you like to have? At what cost?
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# Shoot the Moon. 30 years after the first lunar landing showed us a boring,
lifeless world, scientists are revising their notions of our moon-and of
the 65 others in the solar system. Some of these satellites may harbor the
conditions for life, and promise to hint how life begins - or fails. In
short, moons rock. http://newsweek.com/nw-srv/printed/us/st/sc0104_1.htm
# Finally, a travel guide to the moon - Book for 'first-time visitors' is
one giant leap for publishing. (MSNBC) On July 20, 1969, humans walked on
the moon for the first time. 30 years later, Frommer's travel publications
has launched a guidebook guaranteed to give the moonstruck a chuckle - not
to mention a highly explosive burst of inspiration to plan a vacation
that's out of this world. http://www.msnbc.com/news/289635.asp
: Is any moon alive? Which moons do you most want to visit? Are the natives
friendly/surly/smelly/deadly? Has the US State Dept issued a travel warning?
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SkeptiLinks:
@ Internet radio list: http://internetradiolist.com/
@ Non-US-centric cyberworld: http://orientation.com/
@ Everything you want to know: http://www.knowledgehound.com/
@ Registry of Internet Hoaxes: http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html
@ African Studies centre: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/AS.html
@ Ancient history: http://www.ancientsites.com/xi/indexes/firstPage.rage
@ The Sci-fi Community of the Future: http://www.cybertown.com/index.html
@ EncycloZine - exercising your mind: http://EncycloZine.com/
@ The Millennium Frontier: http://www.newpower.org/
# California Town Seeks To Become 'Hate Free Zone' - Santa Cruz loves you:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990719/08/odd-life-hate
@ Queen Armidala at the mall - no, you're not on another planet:
http://fashion.iafrica.com/index.htm?src_id=tmp0329
# German Police Shoot Monster Rat - dog-sized rat attacks man:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990719/08/odd-rat
# Fishermen Honor Seafaring Virgin Mary - saved when lost at sea:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990719/08/odd-nicaragua-virgin
# Kennedy Crash Prompts Internet Outpouring Of Grief & Conspiracy Theories:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990719/00/net-kennedy-internet
# British Tabloids Harsh On Kennedy Crash - JFK Jr. an arrogant daredevil:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990719/01/international-kennedy-britain
# George writer: JFK Jr. had death wish - reckless behavior led to tragedy:
http://news.excite.com/news/u/990718/11/news-kennedy-columnist
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