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@ SETI@Home, or SETI Makes Clones?!? If you've downloaded this screensaver,
please, disconnect it now! There's a replica of you growing out there, and
if you don't stop now, you might be REPLACED! If you turn off the screen-
saver, you will stop the clone from reaching maturity. I only hope that I
turned mine off in time...
http://www.aliensaliensaliens.com/cgi-bin/render_article.pl?article_id=59
: Do you run SETI@Home? Have you been cloned? Have you been replaced yet? Do
you like being cloned? Are the rest of us being cloned? Am I a clone? Woops!
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# Minister: "soulless" wealthy-living to blame for vandalism. PHILADELPHIA.
44 young people - most of them teens and all from what police described as
affluent families - were criminally charged in connection with a beer bash
in which partygoers trashed a $1 million luxury home that was under const-
ruction in Solebury, Penn. Pastor Rev. Stuart Spencer said the community's
wealth may well have contributed to the crime. "Affluence can be a wonder-
ful thing but it can also create a souless kind of living." Satan laughed.
http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/99/Sep/15/front_page/NTRAS15.htm
: Are you wealthy & soulless? Are you poor & soulful? Are the rich damned?
Is that why they have all the fun while they're alive? Are you damned? Why?
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# MEET THE DISNEY-OBSESSED: Just about every Disney weirdo showed up at the
ConventionEars bash in Florida. There was the man who has been divorced 5
times because of his "single-minded devotion" to Disney; the guy with 927
Disney tattoos on his body; and the couple who call themselves Mickey and
Minnie Baus. One word: Frightening! Another word: merchandising.
http://www.sptimes.com/News/91499/Floridian/My_kingdom_for_a_Mick.shtml
: Are you obsessed? Do cartoon characters fill your consciousness, dominate
your life, chart your destiny? Is your alien implant misfiring? How badly??
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# Artist plans Jerusalem ice wall. SEATTLE (AP) An artist who creates fanta-
stically colored works of glass & plastic is sending 64 tons of ice blocks
from an Alaskan well to Jerusalem, where they will be stacked into a 60-
foot-long wall just outside the Old City. Dale Chihuly's vision is that
tensions in the MidEast someday will melt like his ice wall in the desert
sun. The wall, of course, will come down much faster than barriers between
Jews and Arabs in Israel - it should only last about a week. Brrrr...
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561156802-fce
# Sculpture invades Champs Elysees. One of Earth's most famous roads turns
into an art gallery as a contemporary sculpture fest opens in Paris.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_447000/447751.stm
: Are you inspired to sculpt? Should your art melt? Are you eagerly awaiting
the solar explosion that will melt all our art, all our cares, all our joys?
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# US multi-births increasing. WASHINGTON (AP) The number of babies arriving
in twins, triplets & more has increased markedly in the last two decades
as fertility drugs soar in popularity and women wait longer to have their
children. The increase is particularly striking among older women. Yow.
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561159703-a46
: Have you had any multiple births lately? Are they fun? Do you breed like a
weasel? Did you use fertility drugs? Will your litter be abducted by aliens?
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# Hormonal recall - Oestrogen gives women's memories a real boost. WOMEN DE-
PRIVED OF OESTROGEN suffer from memory lapses that vanish when the hormone
is replaced. The findings are a convincing demonstration that oestrogen
has a beneficial effect on cognitive circuits in the female brain. Are
males crippled? http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990918/newsstory7.html
: Do you remember more & think better when your hormones are flowing? Do you
have enough hormones? Have aliens/demons/Illuminati/robots sucked you dry?
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# We're On the Eve of Destruction, U.N. Warns. Environmental chaos is just
around the corner, but our leaders may lack the will to stop the slide.
http://www.pathfinder.com/time/daily/0,2960,30956-101990915,00.html
# Hurricane Floyd and the Fed: Happy Together. (Time) A big hurricane
may be just the thing to calm Greenspan's inflation worries. Really?
http://www.pathfinder.com/time/daily/0,2960,30976-101990915,00.html
: Are you in a position to benefit from environmental disaster? How will you
profit from chaos? Is global warming good for the economy? Are ETs happy??
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@ STRUCTURE. Tribal societies like the Hopi Indians avoided the inherent
problems of a law-enforcement class because accountability was built-in to
their social structure; you interacted with the same hundred or so people
your entire life, so you knew there'd be consequences for inappropriate
behavior. The Dick List http://disgruntledhousewife.com/framesetdick.html
from the fabulous Disgruntled Housewife http://disgruntledhousewife.com/
may be a harbinger of this model scaled for the global village.
: Are you adequately socialized? Do the voices in your head make you behave?
Are mind-control rays better than social constraint? Are you accountable??
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Y2K-A-Rama:
# Sub-continent slates Y2K warning. (BBC) India and Pakistan say
public services will not be hit by the millennium computer glitch
as Y2K compliance programmes should be in place in time.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_448000/448045.stm
# Y2K - 1 in 4 Urban Chinese Haven't Even Heard Of It:
http://www.sightings.com/politics4/y2kchin2.htm
# Y2K - Russia And Former States Could Be Hurt Badly
http://www.sightings.com/politics4/rusandfor.htm
# Y2K - Official British Evaluation Of US Readiness:
http://www.sightings.com/ufo4/y2kbritanalysis.htm
# Y2K - Brits Rate Canada 'Well-Advanced' In Preparations:
http://www.sightings.com/ufo4/y2kcanad.htm
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