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# Do You Believe In Magic? ROME (Reuters) Nearly a quarter of Italians
believe in magic, fortune-telling, astrology and spiritualism, spending a
total one billion lire ($547,000) per year on them, according to a poll
released Friday. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990816/08/odd-italy-magic
: Does magic work for you? Do you work for magic? How much cash do you spend
on fortune-telling, spellcasting, hope? What's your Return On Investment??
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# Scientists see Susy. (BBC) The first experimental evidence for a theory of
matter called supersymmetry may have been uncovered. Antigravity particles
too? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_421000/421929.stm
@ Links: Particle Physics in the UK: http://hepweb.rl.ac.uk/ppuk/
@ Guide to CERN: http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~jward/guide/cerntextpics.html
@ The Particle Adventure: http://pdg.lbl.gov/cpep/adventure_home.html
# Also: Hunting the Higgs:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_299000/299550.stm
# Matter or antimatter, that is the question:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_336000/336001.stm
# Getting to the heart of the matter:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_86000/86030.stm
: How is your universe structured? How did it get that way? Would you like
to change its basic structure? Into what? What's your favorite antiparticle?
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# CuraGen Discovers 55,000 Genetic Variations. NEW HAVEN, Conn. (Reuters)
CuraGen Corp., a drug discovery and development company, said that it has
discovered more than 55,000 genetic variations (cSNPs) located in human
genes. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990816/08/science-health-curagen
: How many variations are in YOUR genes? Are you damaged, distorted, mutant,
misengineered? Did your creator(s) really muck you up, gene-wise? How come??
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# ACLU may sue over evolution decision. TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The American Civil
Liberties Union says school districts could face lawsuits if they attempt
to teach creationism in wake of the state school board's recent decision
to de-emphasize the teaching of evolution. Other groups may join in - see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560705705-40d
: Did you evolve, with the prospect of evolving further, getting better? Or
were you created just as you are, with no hope of any improvements? Why???
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# Navigation bug fears. (BBC) Sailors, pilots and hikers around the world
are warned that their Global Positioning Systems may fail next Saturday,
when the system's time signals will automatically reset themselves to
"week zero". Some receiving systems, particularly older ones, may believe
the date is 6 January, 1980, and fail. Don't get lost in the woods, eh?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_421000/421553.stm
@ Links: GPS Links: http://www.cnde.iastate.edu/gps.html
@ Navstar GPS: http://www.fas.org/spp/military/program/nav/gps.htm
@ Magellan: http://www.magellangps.com/
@ Garmin: http://www.garmin.com/
: Will you be lost when GPS resets? Will your plane crash? Will Reptilioid
operatives use this opportunity to disorient humanity? Will anyone notice?
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SkeptiLinks:
# Bush Refuses to Answer Rumors of Cocaine Use:
http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/US/Reuters19990814_463.html
http://cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/08/14/president.2000/bush.interview/
# Author of FIDNET Computer Surveillance Plan Tries to Ease Fears:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/08/biztech/articles/16monitor.html
# Making The World Safe For Wiretaps: http://www.msnbc.com/news/301009.asp
# Shooting unites religious groups - Jews & Episcopals mingle:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560726363-ed0
# Also: Anti-Semitism fans new violence, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560708820-26a
# And: Report says officer lax with LA suspect, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560707197-a8f
@ International Crop Circle Database:
http://www.interalpha.net/customer/pvigay/CCDataBase.html
@ Appointment With An Alien: http://users.iol.it/an.digaetano/medium.htm
@ UFOs in Italy, talk in English: http://www.onelist.com/subscribe/ufoitaly
@ Skeptical References: http://www.hutch.demon.co.uk
@ More Roswell Stuff: http://www.roswellrods.com/pre.html
@ UFOs-R-Us, etc: http://www.ufo-net.clara.net
# Gun show held at Colorado school - "screw Columbine":
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560724416-e8c
# Also: Students set to return to Columbine, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560714706-a68
# And: Christians help Columbine students, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560724394-fcf
@ National Alliance Main Page - NeoNazi: http://www.natvan.com
@ The Secrets of the Banking Industry: http://www.bankfreedom.com/
# Russians attack Islamic militants - Dagestan targeted:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560722946-b83
# Also: Russian experts confirm air raid, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560712776-1d0
# Also: Russia may widen war in Caucasus, see
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560706272-f8b
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"It wasn't the best of times; it wasn't the worst of times; it was the
times you'd get if you arranged all possible times (including even fictional
times in which the nights were usually dark and stormy) in order from worst
to best on the real number line from 0.0 inclusive to 1.0 exclusive and then
used a really good uniform random number generator to pick a value in that
range thus choosing the corresponding times -- that's the times it was."
(first line from A Tale of Two Statisticians by Dale "What the Dickens?!"
Dellutri) --Dale Dellutri ** http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/99win.htm **
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