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# The Eclipse Turned My Face Yellow. LONDON - Doctors were swamped by false
alarms from worried sun-watchers who gazed at last week's eclipse. Only a
handful of people across the UK suffered eye damage but thousands more
called medicos with bizarre fears that they had been adversely affected.
http://www.yahoo.co.uk/headlines/19990820/drecord/p23s4_935186445.html
: Do eclipses change you physiologically, psychologically, neurologically?
Did you change color, gender, race, shape, species? Are you now a badger?
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@ NICETIES & COMPLIMENTS, CHAT & FANTASY/ROLE PLAYING. Regulars ("cuddlers")
post answers to questions of the day like "Who's Your Fave Cuddler & Why?"
and "Describe Y'r Most Perfect Meal." Members give each other hugs/cuddles
and play in the meadow and sing sweet songs! It's like some strange mutant
hybrid of the Gummi Bears and The Twilight Zone. Zowie. news:alt.cuddle
: Are you cuddly? Are you gummi? Are you mutant? Do you crave attention? Did
you dismember teddy bears & dolls when you were a kid? Did you burn them???
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# Gene causes infertility. (BBC) Scientists have discovered an abnormal gene
which sharply reduces sperm production and appears to cause infertility.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_425000/425775.stm
@ Links: ICSI: http://www.infertile.com/icsi.html
@ Monash Institute: http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/mai/index.htm
# Also: Fertility treatment linked to 'problem births':
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_347000/347173.stm
# And: Fertility technique 'may cause genetic defects':
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_308000/308197.stm
: If sterility is genetic, how is it transmitted? If y'r parents didn't have
kids, is it likely that you won't either? Do you inherit insanity from kids?
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# 1ST IMAGES FROM CHANDRA X-RAY SCOPE TO BE RELEASED. The first images from
NASA's humungous Chandra X-ray Observatory will be unveiled at a media
briefing at 1 pm EDT, Thursday, 26 Aug. in Washington, DC. Images include
the spectacular remnants of a supernova and other astronomical objects.
Chandra images and additional information will be available afterwards
at: http://chandra.nasa.gov and http://chandra.havard.edu
: What's your favorite X-Ray? What's your favorite telescope, your favorite
remnant, your favorite object? What are you expecting from Chandra? Why??
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@ Unseen Nixon Resignation Footage!! Now available on the Internet for a
very limited time. Footage of the 8 minutes BEFORE Richard Nixon went on
air to resign from the presidency in 1973. He is shown nervous, yelling,
and about to pick his nose. Tell your friends - we will only run this
footage for one week and never again. www.whiteboys.com
: Did voices in his head make Nixon commit crimes, resign, pick his nose? Is
there historic value to this kind of imagery? Do you have other sequences??
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# Afghan offers $113 for Clinton's head. ISLAMABAD. Abdul Rahim Muslim Dost,
an Afghan scholar in Peshawar, said "If anyone kills Clinton I will pay a
reward of five mln Afghanis ($113). If America sets the price of Osama Bin
Laden at $5 million, then we can set the price of the American President
at 5 million Afghanis" http://www.timesofindia.com/today/23worl12.htm
: Have you placed a price on anyone's head? Does your belief system promote
bounties? Who's head would you most like to have? How much would you pay??
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# Britain May Face Invasion Of Giant Grasshoppers. LONDON - Swarms of giant
grasshoppers could invade Britain from continental Europe and devour crops
& gardens across the country. The "superhoppers", up to 12 cm (5 in) long
and eight times as hungry as most British grasshoppers, are usually found
in Spain and France but could spread thanks to global warming. Huge radio-
active ants are expected next: http://www.sightings.com/ufo4/giantg.htm
: Would you rather be devoured by grasshoppers, ants, alligators, badgers,
Mormons, aliens, robots, me? Are crop circles created by programmed hoppers?
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SkeptiLinks:
@ THE UFO PUBLIC NUISANCE HALL OF FAME:
http://www.ufomind.com/ufo/updates/1998/mar/m29-002.shtml
@ Virtual Mars Gallery: http://www.anomalous-images.com/mgs/virtualmars.html
@ They're Watching You, They're Watching Me: http://www.atc.army.mil/~dugway
@ The Internet Spykit: http://spykit.hypermart.net
# DEPRESSION IS COMMON IN SCHIZOPHRENIA PATIENTS. Depression shows in about
1/4 of schizophrenic patients, is associated with a poor outcome and long-
term functional impairment. http://psychiatry.medscape.com/11277.rhtml
# RISK OF DEPRESSION IN CANCER CAREGIVERS:
http://psychiatry.medscape.com/11158.rhtml
# WHEN IN DOUBT, TREAT ANXIETY AS IF IT WERE DEPRESSION:
http://psychiatry.medscape.com/11163.rhtml
# PERIODIC WITHDRAWAL OF PSYCHOTROPICS RECOMMENDED FOR NURSING HOME
PATIENTS: http://psychiatry.medscape.com/11287.rhtml
# PITUITARY SHAPE ALTERED: OCD. Kids with obsessive-compulsive disorder show
abnormal pituitary morphology. http://psychiatry.medscape.com/11195.rhtml
# COMPULSORY TREATMENT OF ANOREXIA NERVOSA BENEFICIAL IN THE SHORT TERM:
http://psychiatry.medscape.com/11201.rhtml
# NIGHT-EATING SYNDROME REPRESENTS UNIQUE EATING DISORDER:
http://psychiatry.medscape.com/11246.rhtml
http://psychiatry.medscape.com/11264.rhtml
# Mosquitoes use super senses, the ability to single out who to bite:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_426000/426655.stm
# Fastest spacecraft will sail solar wind, blown along by solar storms:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_428000/428027.stm
# The Radioactive Dead: http://www.sightings.com/politics4/radioactive.htm
# Nude Ghost Road Show? http://www.sightings.com/ufo4/ghost.htm
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