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# The X Phones: When radio host Art Bell takes a call, it could be from a
physicist, an abductee or the Antichrist. Then there was the fellow who
found and, he thought, killed an alien being in the Cascade Mountains. He
stuffed the creature in a freezer in his garage and later heard it scream-
ing to get out. A week afterward he saw three vans in front of his house
and unknown men going in. He drove away. When he came back, they were all
gone. The men. The vans. The alien. And the freezer. It coulda been worse.
http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,28855,00.html
: Would you rather talk to physicists, abductees or antichrists? Are you one
yourself? Have you ever killed an alien? Was it stolen from you? D'ya care?
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# Warning over 'Nazi' genetic screening. (BBC) Development of a technique
to weed out embryos at high risk of cancer has prompted warnings of the
Nazification of medicine. Ve haf vays to make you healthy...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_415000/415136.stm
# THE MEDICAL CONSEQUENCES OF CULTURAL DIFFERENCES. A study of breast cancer
in Asian-born women in the U.S. says they are more likely to have larger
tumors and more advanced disease at diagnosis than white women, or U.S.-
born Asian women. It's traced to the lower use of mammograms by these
women: http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14700
: Which medical technologies do you try hardest to avoid? Is your aversion
due to cultural or personal biases, ignorance, mind-control rays, religious
doctrines, careful study & evaluation, political principles, random factors?
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# Capitol Hill Meltdown. (TIME) While the nation sizzles, Congress fiddles
over measures to slow down future climate change. Congress, says Environ-
mental Defense Fund lobbyist Steve Cochran, has become "completely dysf-
unctional" on global warming. Steve Forbes doesn't believe it's happening.
: Why does Congress oppose abortion, so human populations swell, and support
global warming, so Earth will become uninhabitable by humans? Is their alien
masters' agenda 1) harvesting people 2) changing Earth for their comfort,
then 3) wiping us out? How many congresscritters are Reptilioid/Republican?
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# SURPRISING RISK FACTOR FOR SUICIDE. A long-term study in England reveals
some interesting information about who might be likely to commit suicide.
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14697
: Are you at risk of suicide? Have you suicided yet? Did you really try??
# URBAN RUMOR ALERT: MEXICAN SHOPPING TRIP. Here is another one for the Hoax
Watch files - it's a new one, so maybe we can stop it early on.
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14698
: What's your favorite urban legend? Do rumors shape your environment? Why?
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# Flop forecast for Europe's eclipse. (BBC) The latest weather forecast
is depressing reading for those Western Europeans who want to watch the
total solar eclipse on Wednesday. They'll to watch each other instead.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_415000/415310.stm
# Eclipse scientists in the swing. (BBC) The total eclipse of the Sun on
Wednesday could settle a 45-year scientific riddle once and for all.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_415000/415273.stm
: How many eclipses have you seen? How many have you survived? How many have
you learned anything from? How many have you predicted? How many happened??
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# CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE ALERT! AUGUST 10-11, 1999. Go to the bottom right
newsclipping from the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and with the upcoming
eclipse, you have the stats that relate to this prediction. If the eclipse
triggers this one off, it is aspected to hit at 7:12PM-PDT, within an 80
-mile radius of the Los Angeles area on August 10, and register a 6.2 on
the Richter Scale. http://www.astrostats.com/disasters.htm
: How many eclipses have caused earthquakes? Do you have statistics? Where?
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# China 'blocks Pope visit' (BBC) Beijing is reported to have barred plans
by Pope John Paul to visit Hong Kong. But we'll always have Paris, lover.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_415000/415092.stm
# Inside Falun Gong: The meditation sect is electrifying China and terrify-
ing Beijing's leaders. What does it take to become an outlaw in China?
Promote democracy, organize an illicit labor union -- or spend an early-
morning hour in a park moving your hands around an imaginary wheel.
http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,28833,00.html
: Is Falun Gong more dangerous than the Vatican? Would you rather ban Catho-
lics or Falun Dafas? Do you flout laws by waving your arms around slowly??
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SkeptiLinks:
@ EXOTICA - sounds: http://www.studio-nibble.com/lists/exotica.html
@ CyclOpz Magazine, a journal dedicated to skepticism: www.cyclopz.com
@ The Flying Saucer Gazette: http://users.erols.com/sardonica/FSGEIGHT/
@ Experience Another Reality: http://members.aol.com/rolusa/home.htm
@ US/Canadian Flying Saucer: http://www.ufodigest.com/avro.html
# NICOTINE: AN UPPER & A DOWNER? Something surprising about why men smoke:
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14743
# THE HIDDEN SAVINGS OF OBESITY - fatness reduces healthcare costs:
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14746
# DOES THE SUN CHANGE ASPARTAME TO FORMALDEHYDE? Another urban rumor:
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14739
# MID-LIFE CRISIS COULD BE A MYTH - SO FORGET THE SPORTS CAR:
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=14695
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