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# Gene Repair Shows Promise for Genetic Disease. NEW YORK (Reuters) Through
the use of a novel technique termed 'chimeraplasty,' researchers repaired
a specific genetic defect. "We developed a system whereby we could go in
and literally rewrite the genetic sequence in a specific gene of interest"
- see http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/health/daily/sept99/gene10.htm
: What gene sequences would'ya like to rewrite? Have you rewritten any genes
lately? D'ya use an online editor? D'ya make typing mistakes? What happens?
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@ First three AIDS cases in 1959? THE RIVER - Tracing the source of AIDS.
(CNN) Based on over a decade of research, "The River" examines the myriad
theories about the origin of the AIDS epidemic - and reaches a stunning &
startling conclusion. "It appears that this tiny amount of blood, taken
in 1959 from an unknown man living in the city now known as Kinshasa...
Congo, represents the oldest specimen of [HIV] in existence." Whodunnit?
See http://www.cnn.com/books/beginnings/9909/the.river/index.html
: Have you engineered any diseases lately? Did your start fresh, or modify a
pre-existing disease, or accept help from aliens/CIA/Illuminati/deities/me?
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# FLUORIDATED WATER MAY PROVOKE LEAD POISONING. Chemicals commonly used
to add fluoride to public drinking water supplies may make children
more susceptible to lead poisoning, a new study suggests. More research
is needed, of course: http://ens.lycos.com/ens/sep99/1999L-09-09-09.html
# Your bionic future: http://sciam.com/1999/0999bionic/0999quicksummary.html
: Have you chemically modified/enhanced any water supplies lately? Did you
add fluorides, chlorides, LSD, sugar? Can you take over the world this way?
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# KU KLUX KLAN KORRECTED. To the satisfaction of many, it was a klansman's
worst nightmare. K.A. Badynski woke up one day last week and found his Ku
Klux Klan Web site hijacked. Visitors seeking white pride information were
instead automatically sent to an organization devoted to fighting online
bigotry. Bother!! http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/21687.html
# Branding Bigotry: http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/13682.html
: Have ya hacked any bigots lately? Do bigots hack you? Do you have a multi-
ethnic hack-fest? Is mutual hacking fun? Is it better than burning crosses?
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# Columbine Dad Says Hatred Abounds. SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (Reuters) The father
of the only black victim of the massacre at Columbine High School in which
15 people died said the Littleton, Colorado, school was still "saturated"
by hateful students. Michael Shoels said Littleton and Colorado are in
denial over the continued hatred at Columbine. New swastikas serve as
warning: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990911/16/news-shooting-columbine
: Who/why/how do you hate? Should/can/will you ever stop hating? Do you love
symbols of hatred? Do you hate symbols of love? Are you ignored? By whom??
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# CHARGING TO ATTEND JEWISH SERVICES SPARKS DEBATE. During Judaism's high
holy days, Jews are individually asked to embark on a journey of intro-
spection. But there is also a self-examination underway within the faith
itself over whether people should have to pay to attend services at
synagogues. Critics say custom a barrier to practicing faith:
http://cnn.com/US/9909/11/high.holy.days.costs/index.html
# Synagogues Boost Security for High Holy Days:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990910/18/ca-state-news-13
: Does your belief system charge admission to ritually-significant events?
Does anyone scalp tickets? How does Rosh Hashana differ from the Super Bowl?
Do bombings & shootings & threats raise the costs of your events? How much?
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Waco-Rama:
# CORONER WANTS TO REEVALUATE WACO SHOOTING DEATHS. As an independent probe
of the govt's role in the 1993 Branch Davidian standoff begins, a medical
examiner wants to reexamine the cases of at least 23 sect members who died
from gunshot wounds. And congressional probers of the Waco siege weren't
given an FBI report showing military tear gas canisters at the scene. Page
missing in report to Congress: http://cnn.com/US/9909/11/waco.evidence/
@ FBI SET FIRE: http://users.erols.com/igoddard/wacofire.htm
# Rangers' Report on Waco Siege Remains Secret. (AP) Texas officials
said a new report on evidence collected at the Branch Davidian compound
could not be made public because it contained military secrets. Huh?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/sept99/waco12.htm
# Impossible Mission For An Improbable Top Cop. (WashPost) The limitations
of her background let Janet Reno leave the Waco control room in DC to give
a speech in Baltimore just as the FBI planned the final assault on the
Branch Davidian compound. That, and her decision to avoid appointing an
outsider to lead the original Waco investigation [which inadequacies have
created the present crisis], reflect her dire ignorance of the FBI's
contentious, self-serving history with department leaders. Bother:
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-09/12/142l-091299-idx.html
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Crack-O-Rama:
# The U.S. Army's Web site was defaced through the big Cold Fusion security
hole that was discovered not long ago. The one where the exploitable Web
application was installed as part of the Cold Fusion examples and
documentation. http://www.l0pht.com/advisories/cfusion.txt
# In response to recent attacks, the U.S. Army has been working to beef up
the security on its Web site. The first thing they did was move their
site from Windows NT to a more secure platform ... the Macintosh.
http://www.dtic.mil/armylink/news/Sep1999/a19990901hacker.html
# Deadly Sun Ray Orbits Earth. Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:SUNNY) unveiled the
Sun Ray 1, a complex series of satellites and lenses the size of a city
block. SR1 will focus solar energy into a deadly ray of heat and light,
capable of vaporizing objects on Earth ranging in size from automobiles
to skyscrapers. http://segfault.org/story.phtml?id=37da29ae-06cf9da0
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"What sports are big over there? Soccer? Tennis? Polo? Lacrosse? Hippopota-
mus wrestling? (That last is under-appreciated here in the States, though in
Jersey specifically we love it just as much as rhinoceros wrestling, and we
learn to master both by the age of ten.)" WILY COYOTE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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