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@ Elian!! http://news.excite.com/photo/img/ap/cuban/boy/20000411/flbw130
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# Wormholes take on new dimension. (BBC) New calculations suggest that worm-
holes large/stable enough to allow intergalactic travel really can exist.
Engage: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_710000/710812.stm
# Star trekking - Voyages across the Universe have come light years closer.
Shortcut to anywhen: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns223420
@ SpaceTime Wrinkles http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/NumRel/NumRelHome.html
@ SpcTime Splashes: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Apps/GenRel/SC93/HOME_sc93.html
@ Numerical Relativity Exhibitions: http://jean-luc.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Exhibits/
@ Salvaging/reviving old stories, tying together science & human predicament
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/04/09/stibooboo01009.html
: How many aliens have zipped through wormholes to get to Earth? All of'em?
Are any aliens/humans/deities/demons precluded from traveling via wormhole?
Once pesky humans learn to use'em, will we clutter-up the universe? When??
# Supersonic Transports Could Be Powered By Coal. To allow jet planes to fly
faster/safer/cleaner, scientists are looking to coal, not petroleum, as a
source of fuel. http://sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/04/000410084650.htm
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# Get Me to a Nunnery, PornStar Sez. ROME. One of Italy's most famous porn
stars said she's had enough of the hard life and was taking a spiritual
retreat in a convent. http://news.excite.com/news/r/000412/10/odd-pornstar
# Court: 'Gays' are sick - Backs Catholic view of homosexuality as illness:
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/04/12/timfgneur01008.html
# The Sex Drive of Long Distance Runners. Sex on eve of a big race is good
for marathon running: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000412/10/odd-sex
# Work Harder In Bed: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000412/10/odd-divorce
@ Did Charlie Chaplin Jr. really show Marilyn Monroe how to masturbate?
Did DiMaggio beat her? Did the CIA believe she once slept with Lassie?
Really? http://www.observer.com/cgi-win/homepage.exe?nyo1/b1040300
: What do you & your belief system believe/know/think/fantasize about human
sexuality? Is human sexuality more/same/less complicated than your dogma? Do
you think about sex a lot? Do you try not to? Do voices in your head insist?
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# 'Seattle II' gears up in DC - Thousands gather to protest World Bank, IMF:
http://shns.scripps.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=IMF-PROTESTS-04-11-00&cat=AN
# A16/DC guerrilla gardening info pack: http://ainfos.ca/en/ainfos04072.html
# A16 Revolutionary Anti-Capitalist Update www.ainfos.ca/en/ainfos04078.html
# Protests vs. IMF,World Bank. Protesters to use human chains, other Seattle
tactics to obstruct sessions, but cops have studied tapes of the Seattle
demos: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565626865-530
# FAIR: Media Distortion of DC Protests Starts Early - believe half that you
see, nothing you hear: http://news.tao.ca/article.pl?sid=00/04/12/0146213
# DC cops "stocking up on fresh tear gas and rubber bullets" - getting ready
to party hearty, eh? http://news.tao.ca/article.pl?sid=00/04/12/0011204
: Have you disrupted any economic/political systems lately? Have the systems
disrupted you? Who/what is most disruptive? Is disruption normal? Is exist-
ence a series of disruptions interrupted by more disruptions? Are you happy?
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# People with AIDS illnesses more prone to memory loss - NSA engineered HIV
virus to attack human brain: http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9659774
# Solar Flares Affects ECTV Producer's Memory - UFOlogy provocateur becomes
brain-dead: http://www.earthchangestv.com/breaking/April2000/0411solar.htm
# MEMORY PILL for elderly (BBC) http://www.newshub.com/cgibin/rd.cgi?9660914
@ "The finitude of human life is a blessing," intone bioethicists. Part of a
potent new pro-death lobby: http://www.reason.com/opeds/forbes/041700.html
# SOUL CATCHER - BigMicro Watching: http://www.parascope.com/en/slacker.htm
# Ghosts, computers, and Chinese Whispers - "CLICK HERE to upload your soul"
If any. http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/aig/staff/toby/writing/PCW/upload.htm
# Wired: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_708000/708048.stm
# Lo-Power Radio: http://salon.com/news/feature/2000/04/11/radio/print.html
# The 2000-yr-old computer: http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal040702.html
# Basic Mind-Control - How-To: http://www.geocities.com/wtmick/basichow.htm
: Are you intrinsically connected to other people;the universal unconscious;
your memories; space-time; machines? Where would you like to send your soul,
if any? Would it be rejected and sent back? Would that rilly bum you out??
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# Wicca-Hater With Dagger Guilty of Interstate Stalking. (Reuters) A man
armed with a dagger who hitchhiked across the United States in search of
a death duel with members of the Wiccan faith was convicted on interstate
stalking charges: http://news.excite.com/news/r/000412/10/odd-hitchhiker
# GOOD CATHOLIC/BAD CATHOLIC: A former altar boy (and lapsed Catholic)
reveals what stopped him from attending Mass after 19 years of perfect
attendance. The Grateful Dead and pretty girls were just starters:
http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0015/features-seely.shtml
# Mission to seek lost Persian army in Egypt desert. CAIRO (Reuters) -
Archaeologists head into Egypt's Western Desert next month to try to
solve an ancient mystery - the fate of the lost Persian army of Cambyses.
Abducted? http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reuters20000411_2173.html
: Are/were you on a holy mission? Was it canceled? Who plans/controls holy
missions? Have you stalked any human/aliens/spirits lately? Did you get'em??
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Conspiracies'R'Us:
# FAMILIES DEMAND RELEASE OF MATERIALS ON COLUMBINE SHOOTINGS. The families
of two slain Columbine High School students have given the sheriff three
days to release his final report on the shootings. Then they'll come out
with guns blazing... http://CNN.com/2000/US/04/11/columbine.parents.ap/
# As Infamous Anniversaries of US Terrorism Loom, Nation Asks Why. WHY!?!
Citizens and government to mark dates of Oklahoma City and Littleton
tragedies. http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/20000412/t000034282.html
# SOUTH POSTPONES RISING YET ANOTHER YEAR. HUNTSVILLE, AL -- For the 135th
straight year since Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, repre-
sentatives for the South announced Monday that the region has postponed
plans to rise again. http://theonion.com/onion3613/south_postpones.html
# Bill Gates uses Ralph Reed to buy George W. Bush Jr. - affordable:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565621898-bf0
# US VICE PRESIDENT BACKS ANTI-CATHOLIC GAY EVENT IN ROME - Gore is
Satanic tool: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=49053
# Alleged rapist footballer Mark Chmura wanted to be GOP politico:
http://www.jsonline.com/packer/news/apr00/1chmura12041100.asp
# Holier-than-thou Chmura refused to meet with "sinner" Clinton:
http://www.jsonline.com/packer/comm/apr00/baumcol12041100.asp
@ Hillary Clinton has built her child-care policy on a curious -- and false
-- theory of human development. Where do her ideas come from? Where are
they going? Who's right? http://www.gladwell.com/2000_01_10_a_baby.htm
# Jenny Craig drops Monica Lewinsky - too unwieldy to lug around any more:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2565624313-e39
# Going to Pot. The Web is going to pot. Just ask the founder of iToke:
a Web-based pot delivery service preparing to launch in Europe. If you
think the concept is outrageous, wait until you hear the plans for world
domination. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,35496,00.html
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