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@ The Pigs Of Wrath: http://www.angelfire.com/ny/CTYmaniac/pig.html
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# Decoding Humanity: Why the human genome project matters for everyone. NEW
YORK - The Human Genome Project, the multinational, decade-old effort to
decode all 23 human chromosomes, is approaching a major milestone. This
spring, scientists in the US and UK expect to have a "rough copy" of the
entire human genetic code. http://www.foxnews.com/health/012400/dna.sml
# British Patent on Cloned Human Cells Raises Ethics Concerns; you're owned:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/2000-01/25/055l-012500-idx.html
# Dolly's 'Dad' Dismisses Cloning Fears - nothing's two good for my kids:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/000125/21/science-cloning-dolly
: How many clones are enough? Should your clones fill the planet/galaxy/uni-
verse? Would rough copies be good enough, or are you an anal-retentive perf-
ectionist who wants everything precisely SO, down to the last tiny detail??
# Transgenic Fish Could Threaten Wild Populations - Purdue University
researchers have found that releasing a transgenic fish to the wild
could damage native populations even to the point of extinction.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/01/000126080257.htm
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# Patrolling Streets of Cyberspace: http://newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9271391
# AOL Instant Messaging System Hacked - TechCops Scramble to Plug Holes:
http://www.apbnews.com/newscenter/internetcrime/2000/01/25/aol0125_01.html
@ Our love-hate affair with cell phones and "press zero" menus will blossom
into true romance only when new tech stops shifting costs to an unhappy
public: http://www.prospect.org/archives/V11-6/fallows.html
: Do you have a complex relationship with new technologies? Are y'r favorite
technologies electronic/digital, chemical, biomedical/genetic, psychic, odd?
Do your technologies need to be patrolled? Are they open to abuse? Are you
an abuser? What have you abused lately? Were you caught? Are you sloppy??
# Meth Hits Main Street: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9283853
# Rural Teens Biggest Druggies: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9283862
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# Return of Falun Gong linked students prevented. Beijing -- Three Chinese
students taking courses in Dublin have been prevented from returning from
China to Ireland after the New Year holiday, apparently due to activities
as practitioners of the Falun Gong movement. One has been detained by
police, and two are under house arrest. Irish govt is helpless to inter-
cede: http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2000/0125/hom18.htm
# China's net clampdown (BBC) http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9284088
# China net clampdown (Nando) http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9283856
: When will China be overwhelmed by religion, networking, communications? Is
bloody civil war unavoidable? Who's plotting the destruction of China? Does
your conspiracy have a role? Do you understand the forces you're unleashing?
# Urge: Naked World - In China, gays are coming out of the bamboo closet:
http://www.salon.com/health/sex/urge/world/2000/01/26/china/index.html
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# We Are Not Alone - Or Are We? Two University of Washington scientists
contend that, contrary to popular thought, we just might be alone and
Earth might be unique, if not in the universe at least in this celestial
neighborhood. http://sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/01/000126080531.htm
# Flash! Fox News Reports that Aliens May Have Built the Pyramids of
Egypt! Pseudoscience as news? http://www.csicop.org/si/9909/fox.html
: Are we alone? Could we have built the pyramids without help? Could you? Do
you need alien assistance to live your meagre life? Are they comforting??
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@ Many psychiatric medications <http://mentalhealth.com/fr30.html> affect
your <http://www.circadian.com/sleep_architectue.htm> sleep architecture.
When you need to figure out what is meant by "significantly reduced stage
two sleep", this <http://www.sleepmed.com/glossary.html> glossary might
help. And sleep on it at http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Health/
: Is your sleep architecture distorted, bent, broken? Have you restructured
your unconsciousness lately? Did you use drugs, lights, sounds, ET implants,
microwaves, herbs, subliminal suggestion, radio, hypnosis, prayer, spells??
# People From Large Families May Have Greater Risk Of Alzheimer's:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/01/000126075929.htm
# Well-Nourished Women Maintain Ability To Ward Off Disease In Old Age:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/01/000126080207.htm
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@ What Aquinas Really Said About Women. (FT) Thomas Aquinas asserts that the
inferiority of women lies not just in bodily strength but in force of int-
ellect. And he maintains that feminine intellectual inferiority actually
contributes to the order and beauty of the universe. But he also affirms
that in Heaven there are and will be women who occupy higher places than
men. http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9912/opinion/mgeorge.html
@ Get ideology out of the bedroom! Hectoring feminists and right-wing
moralists have nothing to say about sexual reality. Whatever that
is. http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2000/01/26/feminism/index.html
: Does your belief system contain dogmatic ideology about gender? Are your
beliefs re: gender testable against observable reality? Do you care? Is sex
too important to be left to professionals? Do you have inferior sex? When?
@ Corsets <http://www.danbbs.dk/~dinsen/corsethome/> and
girdles <http://www.geocities.com/~girdlezone/gird_faq.htm> and
lacing! <http://www.waspcreations.com/> Oh my!
And see http://www.memepool.com/Subject/Fashion/
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# Scientists Create RNA Computer. PRINCETON. Researchers have built a kind
of computer using the biological molecule RNA to solve complex problems.
This is a major advance in molecular computing, an emerging field in which
scientists harness molecules such as DNA and RNA to solve certain problems
more efficiently than could be done by conventional computing.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/01/000126080913.htm
: Are you a computer that computes yourself? Is the universe a computer that
computes itself? Are deities prime integers? Is zero impossible? Where? Why?
@ The Physics Behind Four Amazing Demonstrations: walking on broken glass,
dipping one's fingers in molten lead, breaking a concrete block over
someone lying between beds of nails, and picking up an orange-hot piece
of silica tile. http://www.csicop.org/si/9911/willey.html
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