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# Solar flare alert. (BBC) Scientists issued a solar flare alert as the lar-
gest outburst on the Sun in 6 months interrupted radio communications on
Earth. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_411000/411005.stm
@ Links: Space weather: http://www.spaceweather.com/
@ Current solar data: http://www.maj.com/sun/index.html
@ Solar Terrestrial Dispatch: http://solar.uleth.ca/
# And: Internet reveals solar explosion's target:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_363000/363358.stm
# Scientists to forecast sun eruptions:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_293000/293638.stm
# Where the solar wind blows:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_272000/272386.stm
: Is the predicted solar EBE that will destroy all life on Earth? Are outer
planets/satellites now focusing the solar storm to strike us? Will you be
dead before you can read this? Are you prepared for Solar Armageddon? How?
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# Tanzanians Kill 350 Suspected Witches In 18 Months. DAR ES SALAAM(Reuters)
More than 350 people have been killed by angry villagers in Tanzania in
the past year and a half after being accused of being witches or wizards.
Burning TImes again: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990803/09/odd-witches
: Is witchcraft a major problem in your community? What's your favorite way
to kill sorcerers? Have you killed many mages lately? If they're magickal-
powerful, why can't they protect themselves? Are you a witch, wizard, geek?
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# Egyptian Man Kills Epileptic In Botched Exorcism. CAIRO (Reuters) Egyptian
police have detained a man known as an exorcist after he beat an epileptic
woman to death trying to rid her of spirits, after doctors failed to cure
her. Next time, pray: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990802/10/odd-exorcist
: How do you prefer to exorcise demons? Have you driven out many disease-
causing spirits lately? Have you ever been exorcised? Should you be? Why??
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# TM lowers BP. (BBC) Transcendental meditation may be one way to keep the
heart healthy, say researchers who found how it keeps blood pressure low.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_410000/410003.stm
@ Links: Transcendental Meditation: http://www.meditation-cam.org.uk/
@ Scientific Research on TM: http://www.tm.org/research/home.html
@ Creating Heaven on Earth: TM Website: http://www.alltm.org/
: Is the Natural Law Party the healthiest political group? Do you prefer to
meditate transcendentally, horizontally, quickly, sexually, mechanically??
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# Shroud of Turin said pre-8th century. ST. LOUIS (AP) - A new analysis of
pollen grains and plant images on the Shroud of Turin places its origin to
Jerusalem before the 8th century. The study encourages those who believe
the shroud is the burial cloth of Jesus and refutes a 1988 examination by
scientists that concluded the shroud was made between 1260 and 1390. The
earlier study also indicated the shroud came from Europe rather than the
Holy Land. http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560545483-626
: Does your belief system require/allow/ignore evidence? Have you faked any
religious relics lately? Do you get a good price for them? Are they pretty?
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# Russian region wants to allow men up to four wives. MOSCOW (Reuters) --
Russia's Moslem southern region of Ingushetia has authorized its men to
marry up to four women each, but the move may face hurdles in federal law.
http://cnn.com/WORLD/europe/9907/21/BC-LIFE-RUSSIA-POLYGAMY.reut/
: Does your belief system promote/allow/prohibit polygamy/polyandry, group
sex, polymorphous perversity? How many mates are enough? How many can you
stand? Would you rather mate with men, women, animals, aliens, robots, me?
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# Iraq wants to view solar eclipse. BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq has asked U.N.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan to persuade the US and UK to halt overflights
11 Aug to enable Iraqis to peacefully view the last total solar eclipse of
the millennium. Iraq's northern city of Mosul, often targeted by allied
planes patrolling the no-fly zone, is among the best placed areas to view
the eclipse. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560541972-ca4
# Eclipse forecast goes online. (BBC) The Met Office has set up a telephone
hotline and Website giving daily updated weather forecasts for the eclipse
on 11 August. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_409000/409255.stm
# And: Armageddon - Again: http://www.sightings.com/politics4/arma.htm
@ Links: Nasa eclipse site: http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eclipse/
@ Met Office: Eclipse: http://www.met-office.gov.uk/eclipse/
@ Official UK Eclipse Site: http://www.eclipse.org.uk/
: Will a new Merlin be born in Cornwall on 11 Aug? Will Saddam's lover Satan
take over the Earth? Will you eclipse-watch quietly, noisily, sexually? Why?
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# Depleted uranium 'threatens Balkan cancer epidemic' (BBC) A British
scientist says the Americans' use of depleted uranium weapons in the
war with Serbia is likely to cause 10,000 extra deaths from cancer.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_408000/408122.stm
# Algae blooms visible from space. (BBC) A giant mass of algae is causing
the sea to change colour off the south-west coast of England. Paisley:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_408000/408397.stm
: What's your favorite form of environmental degradation? Should depleted
uranium weapons be used on giant masses of algae? Would they mutate, attack?
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