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: No chupacabras were wantonly annoyed during production of this bulletin.
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# Family discovers new dinosaur. (BBC) Scientists say a fossilised bone
from a previously unknown dinosaur has been found on a Scottish isle.
A holidaying family found the fossilised elbow joint of a previously
unknown member of the stegosaur family in sandstone on the Isle of Skye.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/scotland/newsid_444000/444653.stm
: How did you spend your holidays? Have you found any dinosaurs lately? Have
any dinosaurs found you? Can we peacefully co-exist with dinosaurs? Where?
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@ THE GREAT SOUTH TEXAS CHUPACABRA HUNT. In the wake of reports that dreaded
Chupacabras might be on the prowl south of San Antonio Texas, our intrepid
reporter Rebecca Schatte decided to join a night expedition to watch for
the beast. Here's her story. http://www.cninews.com/Search/CNI.0105.html
: Have you hunted chupacabras lately? Have chupacabras hunted you? Do voices
in your head tell you where to look? Do chupacabras make crop circles? When?
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# Africa confronting doomsday scenario. Harare, Zimbabwe (AP) Aids is the
biggest single threat to Africa's development, dwarfing the continent's
famines and wars. More than 2/3 of all Earth's people now living with HIV,
which causes Aids, nearly 21 million, and 83 per cent of all Earth's Aids-
related deaths since the pandemic emerged 15 years ago have been in Africa
www.scmp.com/News/World/Article/FullText_asp_ArticleID-19990911025843728.asp
# Coping with Africa's Aids disaster: Aids has run rampant on the continent.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/africa/newsid_444000/444974.stm
@ Links - UN Aids: http://www.unaids.org/index.html
@ Aids Y2K Confab: http://aids2000.com/projects/aidsonline/aidshomepage.nsf/
: Do you prefer local, regional or general doomsdays? Have you promoted or
prevented any doomsdays? Are we all doomed? Will we bang or whimper? Why?
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# TV boycott call for US minorities. (BBC) US Hispanics and other groups
are urged to observe a 2-week boycott of the country's major TV networks
in protest at the "invisibility" of minorities in their programmes.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_444000/444447.stm
# `Dracula' draws blood in Pakistan - Christopher Lee's Jinnah film reopens
old wounds. Opponents of a film starring Christopher Lee as Mohammed Ali
Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, have sworn to raze cinemas and attack
distributors when the movie goes on general release next month.
www.newsunlimited.co.uk/observer/international/story/0,3879,81479,00.html
: Do media presentations attack/neglect your cultural/ethnic group? Do you
take direct action against the media? Do the media perpetuate your troubles?
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# Ukraine Hasidic Jews Mark New Year. UMAN, Ukraine(AP) Thousands of Hasidic
Jews wandered the streets of this Ukrainian town & prayed at the grave of
their 19th-century spiritual leader to marking the start of Rosh Hashana.
The pilgrimage to the grave of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav has become a
major annual event for Uman, once home to a large Jewish community. Before
the Nazi invasion in 1941 about 40 percent of Uman's residents were Jewish
but now only a few hundred Jews live permanently in the city of 100,000.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/19990910/wl/ukraine_new_year_1.html
# Faith, fear for Jewish holidays. (DN) Rabbi Brad Bloom stands in one of 3
arson-damaged synagogues, his voice choked with emotion as he describes a
"summer of hate and hope." In the temple's parking lot, a police officer
sits in a patrol car. Two private guards stroll the grounds. See
http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,115008301,00.html
: Does your cultural/ethnic group have high holy days? Are you more likely
to be attacked then? Is there any safe refuge in the world? Elsewhere??
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# Jewish congregations unite to observe law. PHILADELPHIA (AP) In an unusual
expression of unity, Conservative and Reform Jews are helping an Orthodox
community create an eruv, an enclosure extending the definition of "home".
# Bishops report on live-ins. WASHINGTON(AP) - The US Catholic bishops' com-
mittee on marriage and family has issued a report on cohabitating couples,
which many priests find the most inking issue in premarital counseling.
# Patriarch says world is in winter of ecumenism. ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) -
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the world leader of Eastern Orthodoxy,
says stalled efforts toward Christian unity have "caused many, perhaps
rightly so, to proclaim this period to be the winter of ecumenism."
http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,115008323,00.html
: Does your belief system have specific doctrines on co-existence? Do these
doctrines differentiate between individuals, sects, faiths, all humanity??
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Witch-O-Rama:
@ Wicca Pagan Satanic Links: http://www.witchery.com/lynx.html
@ Wicca (Neopagan) Witchcraft & Mind Control:
http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~jkh8x/soc257/nrms/wicca.html
@ Cult Group Controversies: The Brainwashing Controversy:
http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~jkh8x/soc257/cultsect/brainwashing.htm
@ Totalism in Today's Cults - Brainwashing - Thought Control:
http://www.reveal.org/library/psych/totalism.html
@ Why Do People Join NRMs?: Social Science Models:
http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~jkh8x/soc257/lectures/join_ssm.html
: Will Wicca become more prominent in the news as Halloween approaches? Will
Xian demagogues try to link Wicca, Satanism, cults, MC? Will they succeed?
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SkeptiLinks:
# Afghan Taliban Deny Persecuting Minority Shi'ites:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19990912/pl/afghan_usa_1.html
# Afghan Taliban Criticized for Women Abuse: UN
search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19990912/V000341-091299-idx.html
# Sunni Muslim Leader Shot Dead In Karachi:
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9909/12/pakistan.religious.ap/index.html
# Indian PM Says U.S. Religion Survey Unacceptable:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19990912/pl/india_usa_1.html
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