Changes in July
New Articles in the END Section of our site:
Hong Kong believes no religion
Hong Kong is considered one of the least religious cities in the world. 64 percent say they do not believe in any sort of religion. (July 26, 2000)
Almost three-quarters of major U.S. companies snoop on their employees’ phone calls, e-mail, web surfing habits and computer files. (July 26, 2000)
Granny missing? No worry with satellite tracking
Japanese companies have solved the problem of straying senior citizens—track them by satellite. (July 26, 2000)
Supermarkets check you out with heat sensors
Next time you wander through your local supermarket, you won’t be too paranoid in thinking that the shelves are watching you. (July 26, 2000)
Tracking device will keep an eye on children
Missing toddlers and truant teenagers could soon be things of the past with the development of a revolutionary satellite tracking system to enable parents to keep an eye on their children 24 hours a day. (July 26, 2000)
The issues of a genetic revolution
Some of the issues that stir controversy in biotech research: Patenting, genetic testing, genetically engineered medicine, xenotransplantation, anti aging, genetically modified foods and human enhancements. (July 26, 2000)
Britain to allow cloning embryos to get spare parts
The cloning of human embryos for medical research and spare parts, is expected to be approved by the British government. (July 26, 2000)
Return of famine ravaging Ethiopia
The United Nations warns that as many as 16 million people are at risk in 10 countries across East and central Africa, from Burundi to Eritrea on the Red Sea. (July 26, 2000)
Persecution and converts increasing in India
Despite the restrictions, thousands of people are coming to Christ. (July 26, 2000)
All the technology needed for chips to interact directly with humans is already available, says Gene France, a senior fellow at Texas Instruments. "All we have to do is figure out how to get them not to be so clunky." (July 26, 2000)
The HIV plague in Honduras, may soon approach the catastrophe of sub-Saharan Africa. Here AIDS is the second leading cause of death. (July 26, 2000)
There’s a PC in my salt shaker
Computers are becoming such an integral part of our lives that soon we won’t even notice them. (July 26, 2000)
Hand Scans: Security at Sydney Olympics
Athletes, coaches and officials will have to use their hand print as a "biometric key" to gain entry to some areas of the Olympic Games in Sydney. (July 26, 2000)
An increase in illicit drug use in Latin America has become increasingly apparent as traffickers create markets at home for inexpensive and abundant drugs. (July 26, 2000)
Palestinian children scarred by violence
UN report: Life in the occupied territories has mentally damaged Palestinian children, with 90 percent having experienced several traumatic events. (July 26, 2000)
Religion is unfairly blamed for the world’s wars
Describing wars in simplistic terms as "religious conflicts" inevitably leads to confusion and misstatements. The statement that "religion causes most wars in history" is similarly one-sided, ludicrous, extreme and ignorant. (July 26, 2000)
Army develops prototype for "wired" soldier
A U.S. Army battle laboratory in Colorado is working to apply personal tech breakthroughs to the combat zone. (July 26, 2000)
UK pushes electronic surveillance
Britain is likely to become the first country in the world to make imprisonment a possible consequence of refusing to surrender, or even losing, one’s private encryption keys. (July 2, 2000)
Millions still reeling from Mitch
Most of the residents displaced by the hurricane were poor and now cope stoically as emergency measures become daily routine. Aid pledges came from around the world in the wake of Hurricane Mitch and its 180-mph winds that nearly blew away the economic future of Central America, but as new disasters grab headlines, the funds are slow to materialize. (July 2, 2000)
Ismail Serageldin, vice president of the World Bank, made an ominous prediction in 1995 "Many of the wars of this century were about oil—but the wars of the next century will be about water." (July 2, 2000)
Persecution by a Marxist government that reigned from 1974–1991 brought Christians together. Churches were confiscated and pastors imprisoned for many years and, interestingly, that was a tremendous contribution to church growth. His home church had only 2,500 members before the revolution, but has 25,000 today. (July 2, 2000)
Implants: Revelation about "Digital Angels"
"A few years ago there may have been resistance [against chip implants], but not anymore," Dr. Peter Zhou, chief scientist for development of the implant and president of ADS subsidiary DigitalAngel.net Inc. said. "People are getting used to having implants. New century, new trend." (July 2, 2000)
Interview with Walter Cronkite
"We need not only an executive to make international law, but we need the military forces to enforce that law and the judicial system to bring the criminals to justice before they have the opportunity to build military forces that use these horrid weapons that rogue nations and movements can get ahold of—germs and atomic weapons." (July 2, 2000)
Mass injections against parasite spread hepatitis
A 30-year campaign in Egypt to eradicate a blood parasite went disastrously wrong, causing an epidemic of hepatitis C that now infects up to a fifth of the country’s population, according to research just made public. (July 2, 2000)
AIDS overwhelms S. Africa hospitals
The AIDS epidemic is overwhelming South Africa so badly that some public hospitals are turning people away, limiting treatment and forcing doctors to make hard decisions about whom to save. One of every 10 people have the AIDS virus. (July 2, 2000)
New technologies imperil humanity
"We are being propelled into this new century with no plan, no control, no brakes," Joy writes. "The last chance to assert control—the fail-safe point—is rapidly approaching." The co-founder of one of Silicon Valley’s top technology companies believes scientific advances may be ushering humanity into a nightmare world where super–smart machines force mankind into extinction. (July 2, 2000)
How the Internet keeps ’em on the farm
Instead of tending their fields, farmers are hiring full-time crop consultants who pore over computerized yield data collected by the combine. Rather than buying seed and fertilizer from local dealers they’ve known for years, they’re purchasing directly from the manufacturer through the Internet. (July 2, 2000)
Colombians afraid to go outdoors
Almost three-quarters of Colombians are frightened to go out at night and most avoid talking to strangers because of a rising wave of violent crime, according to a recent poll. (July 2, 2000)
"Defiance of international law and solemn obligations has become entirely open, even widely lauded in the West," he writes. "Rampant lawlessness on the part of the world’s leading nuclear power is perversely depicted ‘new internationalism’ that heralds a wonderful new age, unique in human history." (July 2, 2000)
Tension between the United States and Russia is greater now than at any time since the end of the Cold War. But about the only people who seem alarmed by it are the American nuclear soldiers—or missiliers—and their Russian counterparts. (July 2, 2000)
The world’s most dangerous place
More often, danger creeps into our life unawares. The public school classroom. The medical research laboratory. In the minds of six-year-old killers. The real danger is not that which lurks outside of us. The real danger lives within us. (July 2, 2000)
Auto Cruise Missiles: Prowling the skies
The U.S. Air Force is now developing a cheap cruise missile that chooses its own targets. But there are fears about having such destructive weapons flying around with no one controlling them. After all, even NATO pilots were at times unable to distinguish between tanks and refugees. (July 2, 2000)
Putin is remilitarizing Russia
Since Putin took office on Dec. 31, he has issued 11 presidential decrees. Six concerned the military. (July 2, 2000)
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