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@ EarthWeek Map: http://www.cnn.com/1999/NATURE/12/03/diary.planet/
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# China tracks red-haired corn-eating Big Foot. BEIJING (Reuters) - Standing
2.5 metres (eight feet) tall, with long red hair and a taste for corn on
the cob, Big Foot is back and apparently running around a nature reserve
in central China: http://news.excite.com/news/r/991206/02/china-bigfoot
: If I match the description, should I watch out for Chinese agents tracking
me? Are they closing in on me? How many of us are they after? Got any corn??
# Bigfoot Sighting in S.W.Pennsylvania: http://caus.org/pn120499.htm
# Fireball Phenomena in Wisconsin: http://www.caus.org/mu120399.htm
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# GOOD HEALTH HABITS CAN EXTEND LIFE BY ABOUT A DECADE. People who don't
smoke and who maintain low cholesterol and blood pressure levels can live
about 6 to 9 1/2 years longer than those less careful about their health,
according to studies of more than 360,000 patients. The research found
dramatic, life-extending benefits for adults of all ages who have low
heart disease risk factors, including abstaining from cigarette smoking.
http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=22816
: Is the pleasure of nicotine addiction worth a shortened lifespan? Would
you rather be fit & long-lived, or eat Big Macs every day? Can you choose?
# LOW-FAT DIETS NOT PSYCHOLOGICALLY HARMFUL TO KIDS. Young children follow-
ing a low-fat, low-cholesterol diet do not perform poorly in school or
experience increased feelings of aggression, anxiety, or depression, sez
a new report. http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=22770
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# Child-organ surgeon 'warned of time-bomb' (BBC) The professor at the
centre of the Liverpool child organs scandal denies he is some sort
of "Dr Frankenstein", saying he had warned of an "ethical time-bomb".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_551000/551844.stm
: What organs would you most like to remove? From whom? Should that be 'who'
or 'whom'? How's your grammer? How's your gramper? Have you removed any/many
organs lately? What did you do with them? Got any extras? May I have them??
# ALSO - UK Organ laws may be tightened:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_549000/549348.stm
# Organ removal: the UK legal background:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_548000/548313.stm
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# The End of Sex as We Know It - Does the Smut Stop Here? The number of
new pornographic sites is tapering off sharply, although its legions
of devotees are as numerous as ever. What's going on here? Well, for
one thing, it's harder to set yourself apart from the competition.
http://wired.lycos.com/news/culture/0,1284,32530,00.html
# Smut Goes to Court - Playboy vs the Communications Decency Act:
http://wired.lycos.com/news/politics/0,1283,32864,00.html
# Baptists Fight Web Filth: filter the undoctrinal, unscriptural, unnatural:
http://www.lycos.com/news/flash/computers/baptistisp.html?v=wn1203&lpv=1
@ Inflatable sheep! <http://www.muttonbone.com/loveewe.html> Who could
ask for anything more? And see http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Sex/
: Is delivery of sexual content the Net's main function? If sexual content
is suppressed, will the Net die? Will humans lose interest in life, perish?
# Objects of Gaming Desire. New gadgets promise days, if not weeks, of dig-
ital bliss. http://latimes.com/business/cutting/19991202/t000109822.html
# Lara's return. (BBC) Tomb Raider's cyberbabe is back in a new adventure:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/newsid_548000/548174.stm
# Boy hospitalized after Pokemon fight with brother. Frankly, I preferred
the stories of moms wrangling in stores over Cabbage Patch Dolls. Kill
for toys: http://www.cleveland.com/news/pdnews/metro/o05poke.ssf
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# Greece deports U.S. doomsday suspects. ATHENS (AP) Suspected members of an
American doomsday cult were deported to the US amid fears they planned to
mark the new millennium with mass suicide. Under heavy police guard, the
16 members of the Denver-based group Concerned Christians were put on a
plane to New York. The detainees, all U.S. citizens, were expelled after
their residence permits expired. They were living in towns near Athens,
where the group is thought to have settled after 14 alleged members of the
group were booted from Israel in January. Govt officials feared the group
members had planned violence or suicides on the eve of the millennium. The
group's leader, Monte Kim Miller, has said he would die in the streets of
Jerusalem this month and be resurrected three days later. That'd be fun
to watch: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562429771-79e
: Have you died & been resurrected lately? Since Yeshua was born some years
before 1/1/0000, didn't the millennium already happen? Did you notice? How?
# Japan OKs laws to restrain cult. (AP) Japan's upper house of Parliament
approved two bills aimed at clamping down on the doomsday cult accused
of a deadly nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subways. But Aum cult plots
revenge: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562416785-12e
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SkeptiLinks:
# More Falun Gong members detained - prison camps overflowing with slave
laborers: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562430250-5f3
# Also: Chinese bank hacker gets death penalty - DON'T mess with Beijing's
websites: http://infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562403164-61e
@ Take a virtual peek into the future: http://www.cnn.com/future
@ The first sunrise of 2000 will be in... www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/at2000
@ 21st century scenarios: www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/at2000/index.html#poll
@ The 20th Century: 100 years of history ... online: http://cnn.com/100
# 31 killed in Indonesian fighting - Xians, Muslims at war:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562433041-0d2
# Former Israel PM Peres Admits Iran-Contra Involvement:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562442196-f22
# Rock star Ted Nugent blasts anti-hunting protests - "I LIKE TO KILL!!"
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562416705-dea
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