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# Fear fighter 'extinguishes anxiety'. (BBC) A Walkman-like device that may
defeat fear by passing electricity through the brain and re-tuning cells
is going on sale in the UK. The compact machine may help people who suffer
severe stress and anxiety over things such as exams, interviews or flying.
The manufacturers say it also helps people suffering from insomnia or dep-
ression. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_446000/446058.stm
: Do you like passing electricity through your brain? Do your cells need re-
tuning? Is your mind mis-aligned? Does electroshock muck-up your implant??
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# Genetic experiment reverses brain aging. WASHINGTON (AP) Aged brains have
been restored to youthful vigor in a gene therapy experiment with monkeys
that may soon be tested in humans with Alzheimer's disease. Scientists
hope the treatment will reinvigorate thinking and memory. The studies re-
inforce a new understanding of how the brain ages and suggest that neurons
in the older brain don't die at first, but go into shrunken atrophy. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561143786-496
# Generations of tears: Genetic disease stalks a Utah family:
http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/1,1249,115008324,00.html
: Would you like a bright, shiny new brain, sparkling with vigor & vitality?
Will your alien implants continue to work? Will you try to outsmart me? How?
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# 'Cattle drug tests for athletes'. (BBC) Scientists believe a drug-testing
method being tried on cattle could also be used for humans, offering new
hope for athletes calling for more accurate forms of testing. Moooooo...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sport/newsid_446000/446729.stm
: What's your favorite drug test? Do you take cattle drugs? What effect does
BGH [Bovine Growth Hormone] have on your body & mind? Is it a kewl high? Eh?
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# Smart Pacemakers Could Learn To Listen. SHEFFIELD England (Reuters) Future
pacemakers may be smart enough to recognize spoken commands, automatically
adapting heart rates to suit a patients' lifestyle. Tiny devices implanted
under the skin could learn to anticipate what was expected of them. Stoke
me up: http://news.excite.com/news/r/990914/02/science-science-pacemaker
: D'ya want intelligent devices in y'r body listening to your conversations?
Should they call for help if you malfunction? Will they snitch on you? Why?
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# Good Vibrato Vibrations. (WIRED) Researchers use digital biofeedback to
help beginning violin students perfect their vibrato technique. Bzzz...
http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/21729.html
# Motorola Forms Team To Develop 'Smart Cars' - perfect for dumb drivers:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/990914/10/tech-telecoms-motorola
# Smart car exec quits: http://cnnfn.com/1999/09/14/worldbiz/daimler/
: D'ya want intelligent devices telling you what to do, or should they just
persuade you, condition you, direct you towards optimal behaviour? Would you
drive a car that's smarter than you? Would it dominate you? D'ya surrender?
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# Fluorescent GM potatoes say 'water me'. (BBC) A potato genetically-modif-
ied with jellyfish genes which glows when it needs watering is created by
Edinburgh scientists. The team believes the genetically-modified (GM)
plant will prevent overwatering at time when the world's water resources
are being more & more heavily used. And they're easy to pick in the dark.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/specials/sheffield_99/newsid_44600
0/446837.stm
: Would you like to be gene-engineered so that you glow when you need food,
water, sleep, sex, drugs, punishment? Should we be color-coded? Is you blue?
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# Fears of genetic underclass unfounded. (BBC) Fears that genetic testing
will create a new underclass of uninsurable people are unfounded, says an
expert in the field. The extra health care costs of many genes are less
than other risks which insurance companies ignore, such as playing sport.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/specials/sheffield_99/newsid_44600
0/446035.stm
: Are you ubermensch or untermensch? Are your genes risky? Should we all be
color-coded according to the quality of our genes? Should yours be replaced?
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Gene-Mod-A-Rama:
# HARVARD CONFERENCE ON BIOTECH HIGHLIGHTS GM FOOD SCARE:
Conference summary: http://www.iisd.ca/sd/har/index.html
Report abstract: http://www.cid.harvard.edu/cidbiotech/comments34.htm
# NEWSWEEK AND TIME ON GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD:
http://www.newsweek.com/nw-srv/printed/us/in/in0111_1.htm
http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,25411,00.html
# Greenpeace rejects 'secret GM sites' - trials should be abandoned:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_445000/445389.stm
# UK Restaurants set to miss GM deadline - over half are unaware:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_445000/445684.stm
# UK future prosperity damaged by campaign against GM crops:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/specials/sheffield_99/newsid_44500
0/445389.stm
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# HEALTH WITHOUT MEAT. Remember the days when only eccentrics chose to be
vegetarians? Doctors warned them that they ran a serious risk of protein
deprivation. Now meatless eating is so hip that even teenagers do it.
Vegetarians can be as healthy as meat eaters. Don't smell as bad either.
http://cnn.com/HEALTH/diet.fitness/9909/13/vegetarian.diet/index.html
: If "you are what you eat", would you rather be a cow, a pig, a soybean, a
fish, a bird, a rutabaga, a potato, an alien? Should you devour people? How?
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