-Caveat Lector- ----- Original Message ----- SkeptiNews 990428b - - - - - - - - - - - All The News That's Fit To Question : Passages starting with ':' are editorial comments to provoke discussion. : Nothing contained herein is ever endorsed for truth, accuracy or meaning. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # GM plants eat explosives. (BBC) Soil polluted by high explosives could be cleaned up by simply growing plants on it. UK scientists have genetically- engineered plants to produce a bacterial enzyme which breaks down explosives such as TNT and dinitroglycerin. "They use explosives as a food source" - see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_330000/330577.stm @ Links: Nature Biotechnology: http://biotech.nature.com/ # Also: Modified genes that stay put: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_308000/308774.stm # Genetic engineering to battle iron deficiency: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_286000/286057.stm : If little girls eat these plants, will their hair grow out in bangs? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** Plan could send Chinese into Tibet. BEIJING (AP) A proposed World Bank project to aid impoverished farmers in western China will resettle 37,000 Chinese into a Tibetan area, further diluting the struggling minority's numbers. By sending Chinese settlers into a Tibetan area, the World Bank would be violating its own guidelines that projects not adversely affect ethnic minorities. Bank experts have conducted extensive surveys for the program: http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559345328-c2d : Does your religious/political/economic belief system encourage genocide, ethnic cleansing, cultural war? Would you rather be Chinese or Tibetan? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ @ IS MY BODY'S MAGNETIC FIELD STOPPING MY WATCHES? I don't believe your body's magnetic field is breaking your watches - I think it's a coincidence. Did you ever hear of the guy who posed as a psychic and said he could fix broken watches over the radio? A bunch of people called, whose watches restarted just because they picked them up - the guy looked like a miracle worker! http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=11749 : Does your personal magnetic field fix or break devices? Do you more likely affect mechanical, electrical, electronic or bionic devices? Are you lethal? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *** NASA's X-ray telescope grounded. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) NASA's $1.5 billion Chandra X-ray telescope will remain stuck on Earth several extra weeks because of an Air Force investigation into a stranded satellite. The mission already is a year late because of bad circuit boards that had to be replaced in the telescope and other problems. Each month's delay costs NASA $6 million to $8 million. And you thought *your* rent was too high - see http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559346816-e31 : What alien entities only visible in the XRay spectrum are interfering with Chandra's launch so we don't discover them before they have time to hide? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ # DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED FOR SMALLPOX VIRUS. Growing threat of bioterrorism has forced President Clinton to reverse a decision to destroy the remaining samples of smallpox virus. Researchers caution that, since most Americans under 30 have not been inoculated against smallpox, we could be vulnerable to a release of the virus that might be held by another country. Long live death: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=11754 : Is smallpox an endangered species? Should it be afforded legal protection, or released into the wild like Free Willy, or nurtured for esthetic reasons? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Short Takes: # Repeated Exposure To Cocaine Alters Brain Structure. Cocaine can produce long-lasting changes in the structure of nerve cells in certain areas of the brain. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/04/990427045818.htm # MIRACLE PROTEIN FOUND. A discovery linking the shape of a unit called the heme in a protein to protein function may prove useful in a range of scien- tific advances, including finding cures for diseases and cleaning up pollu- tants. The discovery is being heralded by the biochemical and biophysical communities as one of the most intriguing new findings about proteins in recent years. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/04/990427045706.htm # News' Daily Nature Is Dumb And Makes Us Dumber, Says Prof. News makes us dumb by dissecting reality, leaving the public with no idea of what to make of our times. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/04/990426121751.htm # Gratuitous Media Violence Can Increase Violent Responses To Provocation, Acceptance Of Violence, Studies Show. Prolonged exposure to gratuitous violence in the media can escalate subsequent hostile behaviors and, among some viewers, foster greater acceptance of violence as a means of conflict resolution. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/04/990427045219.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SkeptiLinks: # POTENTIAL DANGER IN ASIAN HERBAL CREAMS - powerful steroid found: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=10334 @ WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT UNREGULATED HERBAL REMEDIES? buy something else: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=10330 # PESTICIDE EXPOSURE RESULTS IN LOWERED INCIDENCE OF CANCERS: http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=11785 @ UFOs over Antarctica: http://ovnis.esoterica.pt/princip/antarctida.htm @ We're watching you at SpOOk Central: http://www.watchingyou.com @ Communiqué Interview: Phillip E. Johnson: http://www.communiquejournal.org/q6/q6_johnson.html @ "ETHNIC CLEANSING IN THE U.S." VIA MIND CONTROL: http://members.tripod.com/~mdars/1/war2.htm http://www.webpost.net/wa/war2promote/detect.htm http://www.suresite.com/il/p/provoked http://members.tripod.com/~mdars/cruel.html http://members.tripod.com/~mdars/1/resistance.html http://members.tripod.com/~mdars/delga2f.htm http://members.tripod.com/~mdars/usafcyb4.htm http://members.tripod.com/~mdars/1/cyborg.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "The rushing cool breeze in hair and the sudden relief from all her worries and problems gave her the same glorious feeling freedom she felt at sixteen when riding in Nick's convertible on the way to Sandy Hook State Park on a summer afternoon with the picnic basket and her new swimsuit bought just that morning at Selzer's department store, save the distinct difference of the rocky ground now rising rapidly to meet her, only because the drive to the beach lasted considerably longer than her jump from the canyon rim." -WC * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.sonic.net/~ric * ICQ# 19633976 * email INFO or SUBSCRIBE SKEPTICHAT to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SkeptiChat archives: http://www.sonic.net/~ric/sc/files.htm DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. 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