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@ Map: Tranquil Spots, Ireland: http://homepages.iol.ie/~discover/tranq.htm
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# Japan's Nuke Plant Disaster. Several people are seriously injured, tens of
thousands are at risk, in a criticality nuclear accident at a Japanese
uranium processing plant 90 miles outside Tokyo. Reaction still raging:
http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/22022.html
http://cnn.com/ASIANOW/east/9909/30/japan.nuclear.05/index.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_462000/462090.stm
# Ex-cult leader gets death. TOKYO (AP) - A former doomsday cult leader who
spread lethal nerve gas in one of Tokyo's busiest subway stations in 1995
was sentenced to hang for his role in the attack, which killed 12 people.
It was the 1st death sentence meted out in the Aum Shinri Kyo cult case.
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561405142-cee
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_461000/461406.stm
: Are you in Japan? Would you rather be killed by hanging, radiation, nerve
gas, contaminated sushi, earthquakes, stress? Do ETs force you to remain??
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# IO IS HELL (FIRE & BRIMSTONE) - IO IS ACIDIC. (Nasa) Sulfuric acid found
on Europa: Sulfur from fiery volcanoes on Io may be responsible for a
battery acid chemical on Europa with implications for astrobiology.
http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast30sep99_1.htm
# Confusion doomed Mars Orbiter. LOS ANGELES (AP) A mixup over metric and
English measurements likely caused the loss of the $125 mln Mars Climate
Orbiter as it circled the planet last week; this caused the probe to fly
too close to the red planet, causing the spacecraft to break up or burn
in the Martian atmosphere that it had been designed to study. Like, oops.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561411574-072
: Have you probed any inhospitable planetoids lately? Would you rather take
a vacation on Mars, Europa, Uranus? If Europa has life, would you kill it?
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# Lost Dead Sea Scroll Found? (BBC) A religious text, billed by some as one
of the "lost" Dead Sea Scrolls, has mysteriously surfaced in Israel. The
text uses some of the same phrases & imagery as the famous 2000-year-old
scrolls. But further study is required before experts can confirm whether
the so-called "Angel Scroll" is genuine or an elaborate hoax. If real, it
could shed new light on Jewish mysticism and the origins of Christianity.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_459000/459879.stm
: Have you faked any religious texts lately? Are all/some/no religious texts
genuine? Is authenticity irrelevant to belief? Do you trust me as I channel
Sacred Words of the Cosmic Otter? Are old texts more worthy than new ones?
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# Kenyan prez bashes gays. NAIROBI(AP) Pres. Daniel arap Moi lashed out at
homosexuals, saying their behavior is abnormal and contradicts biblical
teachings and African traditions. Moi mocked homosexuals as having "a
funny way of dressing which included wearing earrings." Moi's comments, at
the opening of an agriculture show in Nairobi, came one day after Ugandan
Pres. Yoweri Museveni said homosexuality was abominable and urged police
to round up and charge homosexuals. Homosexuality is illegal in both
countries. http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561409202-c07
: Do you wear earrings? Have gays been around longer than arap Moi? If your
political/economic situation is crumbling, who do you desperately scapegoat?
# "It's rather an interesting, titillating finding" one fine scholar says
of a study claiming that gay men have bigger dicks than straight men.
<http://nationalpost.com/home.asp?f=990928/89154> And what's the careful,
rigorous methodology behind the Kinsey Inst. <http://indiana.edu/~kinsey/>
data this study used? The survey "asked 4,187 heterosexuals and 935 homo-
sexuals to measure themselves with a ruler at home & mail in the lengths."
: Is genital size important to you? Is gender preference significant? Why?
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# The truth is out there: Scramble! Aliens about!! Get all the news at CNI:
http://www.cninews.com/ Aliens control Tony Blair's brain, say Serbian
newspapers. Dr Todor Jovanovic says: "[ETs] radiate something diabolical.
They have a hold over the brains of Bill Clinton, the British PM and other
world leaders." French air force chiefs and space satellite engineers sent
a 90-page report to President Chirac warning that, beyond any shadow of a
doubt, UFOs have been sighted repeatedly over Western Europe. Nato should
prepare for the threat, they say. http://www.sightings.com/ufo4/cni.htm
: What's your favorite news? If you don't like the news, do you make some of
your own? Do you believe all/some/none of what you read? Do you believe me?
# eBay rejects auction of AIDS victim's corpse - A publicity stunt?
http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/30/ebay.corpse.reut/index.html
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# Cosmic burst may be supernova. (AP) A cosmic blast last year, one of the
most powerful explosions ever observed, probably originated in a supernova
and the formation of a black hole. The burst of cosmic gamma rays leaves
astronomers more convinced that these brief, but brilliant cosmic flashes
are generated by the fiery collapse of massive, dying stars. All fall down
go boom: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2561404031-707
@ UFOs Over DC & More! http://users.ev1.net/~seektress/key1.htm
@ Enormous Yukon UFO: http://www.sightings.com/ufo4/ufositeref.htm
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% Y2K: US Dept. of Transportation - Y2K & Technology:
@ Y2K Transportation Sector: Air, Rail, Waterways, Highway, Urban,
Hazardous Materials Transportation: http://www.y2ktransport.dot.gov/
@ FAA Y2K: US & International Civil Aviation: http://www.faay2k.com/
@ Fly2k - Foreign: A country-by-country review of reported Y2K status;
U.S.: A review of Y2K status of the U.S. National Airspace System;
and other Aviation Y2K Links - http://www.dot.gov/fly2k/
@ FHWA and the Y2K Computer Problem: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/y2k/
@ DoT Year 2000 Bureau: http://ito.dot.gov/Y2K.HTM
: Are you traveling anywhere over the 1/1/2000 cusp? Are you insured, nutz,
desperate, resigned, hopeful, drugged, implanted, mind-controlled, blithe?
# Y2K - Canada Electric Co. Buys 'Huge Pallets Of Groceries' Just In Case:
http://www.sightings.com/politics4/electricfood_p.htm
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