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# Transplant Internet site launched. WASHINGTON (Reuters) The United Network
for Organ Sharing (UNOS) said it will start posting organ availability on
a secure website that can be accessed only by transplant surgeons & organ
procurement officers. http://news.excite.com/news/r/990909/17/health-uno18
: Is any website secure? If this site is hacked, where will the organs go?
Have you hijacked any transplant organs lately? How do you use them? Tasty?
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# Cloned beef is news in Japan. TOKYO(AP) It looks like beef. It tastes like
beef. In fact, it's nothing less than 100% pure beef. But a batch of the
stuff drew nationwide attention in Japan when it went to market Thursday,
advertised as the beef of a cloned cow. "It's nice and soft. I'd buy it
again because it tastes good." But cloned beef has been getting less than
rave reviews lately. A govt announcement in April that it had been sold
unmarked for at least two years triggered threats of a beef boycott. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561088011-ab1
: Do you prefer to eat clones? Would you mind if your clone was eaten? What
is your favorite recipe for cloned meat? How should your clone be prepared??
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# Celera Genomics Finishes Fruitfly Gene Map. WASHINGTON (Reuters) A company
seeking to be the first to map all the genes in the human body said it had
nearly finished a target almost as important to scientists: the fruit fly.
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990910/02/science-science-fruitfly
: Have you finished any gene maps lately? Will you use the maps to build new
lifeforms? What will they look like? Will they be pretty, will they be rich?
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# AGING ISN'T A DISEASE - AND GROWTH HORMONE IS NOT THE CURE. Forget human
growth hormone as a fountain of youth. Not only is there no evidence it
will "stop the clock" but a recent study found giving it to hospitalized
patients had harmful effects. Sorry - we still can't keep you young
forever. http://healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=16517
@ IS IT EVER REASONABLE TO TAKE GROWTH HORMONE? If your body lacks it, yes.
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=16464
: Do you want to stay young forever? What would you pay for eternal youth?
Would you sell your soul, your mother, your first-born, nuclear secrets??
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# Scientists examine ancient virus. (U-WIRE) SYRACUSE, N.Y. Researchers who
found a prehistoric virus trapped deep in Greenland's glacial ice cores
have extended their research to include ice samples from the Antarctic.
The research will focus on confirming suspicions that the common plant
pathogen, Tomato Mosaic Tobamovirus, is alive, and what the implications
of more than 200 samples of live fungi and bacteria found in the ice may
be on plants and humans. http://news.excite.com/news/uw/990910/odd-122
: Have you found an ancient virus lately? Are you reverse-engineering virus
genetics so you can do interesting things to/with living organisms? Where?
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# The planet that hums - Listen carefully; you can hear Earth singing softly
to itself. THEY LIVE UNDERGROUND. They're everywhere but seem to come from
nowhere. They barely exist, but never leave. If sounds have shadows, they
are the shadows of a sound. Researchers call them the background free osc-
illations of Earth. But some call them a hum. That's a comforting thought:
a mystic Om, perhaps, or just the warm, cosy sound of a planet going about
its business. http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990911/theplanett.html
: Do you listen to your planet? Does your planet listen to you? D'ya prefer
to listen to other planets, to aliens, to stars, to galaxies, to me? Why??
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Armageddon-A-Rama:
# Y2K - Are Foreign Airports Ready for Y2K?
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/y2kforeign990909.html
# Y2K - Y2K Is Still an Aviation Bugaboo:
http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/21676.html
# Y2K - US Coast Guard Steps Up Y2K Checks Of Cargo Ships:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990910/03/tech-yk-ships
# Y2K - Computers Weather 9/9/99; Now For 1/1/, 29/2/2000:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990909/12/tech-yk-eurasia
# Y2K - Beware Y2K Scammers:
http://digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin/flo?x=dAumAEgYEwhEBuX
# Y2K - Cold War Missile Tracking Bunker Now USAF Command Post:
http://www.sightings.com/politics4/y2kmstrack.htm
# Y2K - Latest On Nuclear Power Plant Safety & The Power Grid:
http://www.sightings.com/politics4/y2kpowergrid.htm
# Y2K - US Senators Urge Expanded Missile Watch:
http://www.sightings.com/politics4/y2kmissle.htm
# Y2K - Only 7% Of Americans Expect Major Disruptions - New Poll:
http://www.sightings.com/politics4/sevenpercent.htm
# Y2K - Russia Said Skipping Step On Key Systems:
http://www.sightings.com/politics4/y2krusstep.htm
# 9999 - North American Power Grid Passes '9/9/99' Test:
http://www.sightings.com/politics4/gridtest.htm
# 9999 - NINES BUG: A Y2K WOLF CRY?
http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/08/9999.bug/index.html
# 9999 - Date 9/9/99 Fails To Fluster Asian, Europe Markets:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990909/11/tech-nines-markets
# 9999 - Computers Hum Past Special Date, 9/9/99:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990910/03/tech-yk-nines
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SkeptiLinks:
# Kinkel lawyers object. Lawyers for school shooting suspect Kip Kinkel
are trying to block searches for physical defects in Kinkel's brain.
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561088931-f4e
@ WebMaking: MetaData: http://digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin/flo?x=dAumAEgYEwhEmud
@ Wares: WYSIWYG War: http://digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin/flo?x=dAumAEgYEwhEYuB
@ 5 Erotic Poems: http://www.nervemag.com/Blumenthal/sitBack/sitBack01.html
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