Newsclippings: Weird News [10 items]
From: "Ric Carter" <ric@sonic.net>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 10:11:26 -0800
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*** Spanish police thwart doomsday group mass suicide
Spanish police foiled a mass suicide planned by a 30-member sect
whose members believed they would be carried away by a spaceship from
the summit at Tenerife's Teide Volcano, officials said Thursday. The
group, which may be linked to the Solar Temple suicide cult or a
Hindu apocalyptic sect, was convinced the end of the world would take
place this evening, according to a Canaries government official. They
were planning to end their lives on earth and travel by spaceship to
a new world. Police in the Canary Islands had been tracking the
group's movements for some time. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=6845547-ff5
*** Communist Party lightens up newspaper with Society section
The People's Daily, the dull voice of China's Communist Party,
lightened up its pages Wednesday with a social section. Its first
edition carried stories on high prices of electrical appliances in
Anhui Province and a woman who was crippled for life when she used
her body to protect state-owned sheep during a snowstorm. "Society
Weekly," to appear every Wednesday, was created after reader surveys
showed the letters page was the most popular section of the People's
Daily, which is otherwise filled with dry economics and ideology. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=6821957-827
[More online journals need PEOPLE pages too, eh? --rc]
*** Guyana opposition demonstrators turn to witchcraft
Demonstrators protesting the recent election of U.S.-born Janet Jagan
as president of Guyana are resorting to witchcraft to try to force
her out of office. In a voodoo-like atmosphere, daily rituals by
protesters in the capital, Georgetown, feature brightly colored
candles, chicken eggs, containers of swirling smoke and chants
invoking evil against the white, 77-year-old grandmother. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=6848707-434
[Another tool for political consultants to consider, eh? --rc]
*** Scientist foresees 200,000 human clones a year
Physicist Richard Seed said Thursday he foresees as many as 200,000
human clones a year once his process is perfected, at a price for
each clone far lower than the $1 million the first one will cost.
"When I was 7 years old I was brilliant and crazy. I don't mind being
called crazy," the 69-year-old scientist said. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=6847437-35c
Cloning specter repels, fascinates humankind, See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=6845810-6ac
Connecticut lawmaker proposes ban on human cloning, See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=6847269-e04
["I just wanna be me... and me... and me... and me..." --rc]
*** Enzyme provides 'fountain of youth' for cells
U.S. scientists said Tuesday they had been able to make human cells
live longer by tinkering with their genetic material, providing a
"fountain of youth" for aging cells. News of the technology sent
shares in California-based biotechnology group Geron Corp. up and
raised hopes of new ways to treat diseases such as cancer. "This
research raises the possibility that we could take a patient's own
cells, rejuvenate them, then modify the cells as needed and give them
back to the patient to treat a variety of genetic and other
diseases," said Dr. Woodring Wright of the University of Texas. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=6930283-e7b
[Immortality soon - who needs aliens/gods, eh? --rc]
*** Alleged cult denounces charges against leader
Alleged members of a doomsday cult described as ridiculous and
unfounded Sunday a judge's decision to charge their suspected leader
with attempted murder. German psychologist Heide Fittkau-Garthe, in a
court appearance in the Canary Islands, was formally charged on
Saturday night with attempted murder and "inducement to suicide" by
her 32 followers, court officials said. She was ordered held without
bail. The authorities have described her followers as "brainwashed"
and accuse Fittkau-Garthe of a mass suicide plot. But her supporters
said she had been falsely accused and was just a friend of theirs.
See http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=6891255-270
*** IN THE BRAIN: THE GOD SPOT?
A group of neuroscientists at the University of California at San Diego has
identified a region of the human brain that appears to be linked to
thoughts of spiritual matters and prayer. Their findings tentatively
suggest that we as a species are genetically programmed to believe in God.
See article at:
http://www.parascope.com/articles/slips/fs22_3.htm
*** ARAB CONSPIRACY THEORIES ABOUND ABOUT DIANA'S DEATH
An Arab world conspiracy theory about Princess Diana's death in a car
crash, propounded in magazines, best-selling books and a court suit, paints
her as the target of a British plot. Full story at:
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9712/26/diana.conspiracy.ap/index.html
*** REMOTE-CONTROL SYSTEM USES BRAIN WAVES
Something spooky's afoot. Lights turn on without warning. The TV flashes
channels at random. In the distance, a chime goes off. But there are no
poltergeists here. Full story at:
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9712/25/remote.control.ap/index.html
*** HEY KIDS! JOIN THE CIA!
This spooky CIA recruitment ad, which the agency ran in the Hispanic
Almanac recently, portrays college students as vigilant mirror-shaded
spooks. See:
http://www.parascope.com/gallery/galleryitems/ciahiring.htm
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