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# Plant losses threaten world's food supplies. (BBC) The world's ability to
feed itself is being put at risk by an accelerating loss of plant species.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_449000/449096.stm
# Also: GM viruses to turn plants into factories:
http://www.sightings.com/earthchanges/GMviruses_e.htm
# Botanists launch plant rescue plan:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_411000/411639.stm
# The mother of all plants:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_411000/411757.stm
# GM could 'impoverish poor farmers':
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_348000/348947.stm
: How much food have you hoarded? Is it enough? What will you do when it all
runs out? What will the rest of the world do? Will we eat each other? Salty?
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# Bubonic Plague Kills By Cutting Cellular Communication. Yersinia pestis,
the deadly bacterium that causes bubonic plague, kills by cutting off a
cell's ability to communicate with other immune system cells needed to
fight off the bacterial invasion. Scientists locate a protein responsible
for the plague's lethal effect and the molecular family it targets:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/09/990916134550.htm
: Have you ever had your communications cut off? Were/are you plagued? Are
you developing new plagues? What level of communications will you destroy?
@ Bioethics was supposed to work against paternalism, helping patients
to make free, informed choices. Things have gone in a different and
ominous direction: http://www.reasonmag.com/9908/fe.rb.warning.html
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# Religion puts Israel on 2 clocks. JERUSALEM (AP) The switch from daylight-
saving time to standard time is usually an excuse to sleep an extra hour.
In the Mideast, it's a political act. Israelis switched early to promote
religious redemption. Palestinians decided to wait two weeks, citing
patriotism. As a result, the region has operated on two clocks - throwing
a lot of people off schedule: Businessmen were kept waiting, peace
negotiators double-checked their schedules, diplomats found their parties
pooped. It apparently even muddled terrorists, who killed themselves
instead of their targets when their bombs detonated an hour early.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561197398-164
: Do you always double-check the time on your bombs? Do you provide leeway?
Is time-changing a hostile act? Are you at war with time? Does time attack?
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# KANSAS: MOVES UNDERWAY TO COUNTERACT SCHOOL BOARD ACTION. Linda Holloway,
head of the Kansas School board that pulled evolution from the curriculum,
says she no longer reads her "insult laden" e-mail. Maybe she should; a
moderate GOP group has targeted her for defeat in the next election. Mean-
while, the chancellor of U. Kansas announced formation of a task force on
science literacy in education; there are moves underway in the legislature
to mandate the teaching of evolution and to limit the power of the school
board. One state lawmaker has written a bill to require students to study
evolution to be eligible for admission to a state university. That would
also have consequences for students attending private religious schools.
: Can ignorance be outlawed? Is religion a good cover for ignorance? Do the
voices in your head tell you all you need to know? Do you live in Kansas??
@ If opera arose, in some measure, as the secular equivalent to the
Mass, does that mean that the state shouldn't fund it either?
http://www.igc.org/dissent/current/summer99/ackerman.html
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# Plan to block patenting of human genes. (BBC) The UK & US govts plan an
agreement to prevent the 100,000 human genes being patented by private
firms. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_452000/452293.stm
# Also: Blow to British biotech:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_444000/444203.stm
# Gene mappers near historic goal:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_443000/443673.stm
# Drugs giants unite for medical revolution:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_319000/319872.stm
# 'Working draft' of human genome by 2000:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_297000/297166.stm
: What human genes would you like to patent? Is this a govt conspiracy to
destroy free enterprise? What politicos would you like to genetically alter?
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# County Debunks Skunk Ape Funding Request. Naples, Florida. The County
Commissioners reverse a decision by the Tourist Development Council
to approve US$44,000 for activities connected with the Skunk Ape (a
Bigfoot type). http://www.naplesnews.com/today/local/d337966a.htm
: Have you ever received public funding for your paranormal investigations?
Is prayer a form of paranormal investigation? Do you prefer LSD research??
@ The triumph of American art is largely a triumph of trash: an
odd mixture of avant-garde pretense and ferocious commercialism:
http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/special/outrage2.htm
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Y2K-O-Rama:
# Y2K - Greenspan: Y2K No Major Threat:
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctg163.htm
http://www.cnnfn.com/1999/09/17/economy/greenspan/
# Y2K - An Open Letter to Alan Greenspan From Ed Yourdon:
http://www.sightings.com/politics4/YourdonOnGreenspin_p.htm
# Y2K - What Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan *Really* Said On 9-17-99:
http://www.sightings.com/politics4/greenspin.htm
# Y2K - MicroSoft: Y2K Hoax a 'Serious Issue:'
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,1017257,00.html
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/312768.asp
# Y2K - 55% Of Trouble Expected During Year 2000, 15% More In 2001:
http://www.sightings.com/politics4/Y2K55percent_p.htm
@ Y2K - Jeff Rense Y2K RESOURCE CENTER:
http://www.sightings.com/y2kresource/y2k1r.html
# Y2K - Unysis Says 8 Million US Computer Systems Will Fail:
http://www.unisys.com/Home/year_2000/default.asp
# Y2K - Foreign Problems Begin To Be Catalogued:
http://www.sightings.com/politics4/y2kforeign_p.htm
# Y2K - 97% Federal Mission Critical Systems Now Compliant
http://www.sightings.com/politics4/y2k97percentready_p.htm
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