What was supposed to happen on May 5th Planetary Alignment?
Was Armageddon supposed to happen? Was the world supposed to fall apart? Not quite. Find out more here... (June 13, 2000)
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It's apocalypse now as the world boils over
"The world is slowly sliding into climatic uncertainty--and there is little sign that we are capable of taking action that can halt this descent into elemental catastrophe." (June 13, 2000)
Diseases re-emerge in the Americas
Tuberculosis, cholera, dengue are threatening millions of people in the Americas. Once thought virtually eradicated, they have re-emerged for because of the development of drug-resistant strains. (June 13, 2000)
At least 30 previously unknown diseases have appeared globally since 1973, including HIV-AIDS. (June 13, 2000)
World faces cancer "epidemic," say experts
"This year, cancer will affect 10 more million people, and five or six million people will die from it," said David Khayat, World Summit against Cancer. (June 13, 2000)
Beware the private cyber snoops
Want to break into one of Switzerland's most famous private banks and look at its accounts? Not a problem. Want to break into the computer of a key government agency and read messages tasking its security officers? Not a problem. (June 13, 2000)
On the web, no one is anonymous
On the Web you sense that you're invisible. That probably is what David L. Smith thought. But the young geek charged with creating the Melissa virus was wrong. (June 13, 2000)
The CIA's favorite spy in the sky now sees better than ever, thanks to a small radar imaging system that peers through clouds. (June 13, 2000)
The full Bible has now been translated into 2,233 languages. (June 13, 2000)
A Latin view of American-style violence
Latin America has been spared a form of U.S. violence: the troubled gunman who for little reason shoots up a school or church, leaving terror and trauma. These crimes are starting to seem commonplace in the United States. (June 13, 2000)
Iraq deaths double under UN sanctions
The United Nations' top humanitarian official in Baghdad says infant mortality in Iraq has more than doubled under the UN embargo imposed in 1990. (June 13, 2000)
Einstein argued: "You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. The very prevention of war requires more faith, courage and resolution than are needed to prepare for war." (June 13, 2000)
China urges world to accept it will absorb Taiwan
China urged the world to accept its goal of absorbing Taiwan along the lines of its unification with Hong Kong and Macau--or else risk consequences "you don't want to see." (June 13, 2000)
Cloning and genetic engineering: Pandora's pantry
Today an estimated 60 percent of all processed foods--from candy bars and tortilla chips to tofu dogs and infant formula--contain at least one genetically engineered component. (June 13, 2000)
EU is becoming "European government," says Prodi
He added: "It is clear: either we stick together or we disappear from the history books." (June 13, 2000)
Researchers make "bionic chip"
Researchers say they have found a way to mate human cells with circuitry in a "bionic chip" that could play a key role in medicine and genetic engineering. (June 13, 2000)
Tokyo: Waiting for the earth to move
The last big quake to strike Tokyo was the massive Kanto earthquake in 1923. If there was a similar earthquake on a weekday at 6 PM, it would leave 156,431 dead, say the disaster specialists. In addition, 155,416 houses would be destroyed.
GPS implants will make it easy to pinpoint people
A tracking device designed to be inserted under the skin could allow parents to keep tabs on their children, help courts track offenders or make it easy to find lost hikers.
AOL-Time Warner: What it will know about you
The $180 billion merger between America Online Inc. and Time Warner Inc. created one of the largest databases ever, teeming with juicy information about individual tastes in books, music, magazines, as well as hobbies.
Israeli researchers have discovered design flaws that allow the descrambling of supposedly private conversations carried by hundreds of millions of wireless phones.
Clinton favors computer snooping
Visions of stealthy black helicopters landing on your lawn and disgorging troops to steal your PGP keys aren't just for conspiracy theorists. The Clinton administration wants to be able to send federal agents into homes to copy encryption keys and implant secret back doors onto computers.
Muslim-Christian violence rampant in Indonesia
"It comes down to control," said one CIA official. "Dictatorships, left or right, are too unstable. Get used to a new term: 'Polyarchy.' That meaning, two foreign-funded political parties, supposedly competing to rule any particular country. Yet no matter which one wins, both will do the bidding of America, the West and the transnational corporations. The only force that can wreck our cozy little arrangement is the Indonesian military...."
Agrecon will every square meter of farming land in the Australia. Land owners will be told how productive their property has been over two decades. Farmers will be updated on everything from crop yields to temperatures and rainfalls.
Artic Ice Cap Melting: Chilling figures
An expanse of Arctic sea ice the size of Texas has vanished in the space of 19 years because of manmade global warming, according to new research.
Forecast for hurricanes: It will only get worse
William Gray, one of the most prominent American hurricane forecasters, announced that a new era of intense hurricane activity is about to unfold. Likely to be hit more than ever, he said, will be the Caribbean islands, the East Coast of the United States and the Florida Peninsula.
Police in Belarus wouldn't arrest the Gospel
...At the police station, the chief of police released the men and asked them to hand out copies of the New Testaments to everyone on his staff, Goncharenko said.
According to Moscow analysts, "Russia will not only use nuclear weapons in response to a nuclear attack, but in response to a conventional attack when there is no other way out."
IBM's supercomputer: Power of the Brain
The speed of communications within Blue Gene would be fast enough to download the entire contents of the Internet in less than a second. The machine will be self-healing. Researchers say Blue Gene will be the first computer with processing power similar to that of the human brain.
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