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Subject: [BPR] - Palestinians for Jesus?
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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:06:35 -0500

Palestinians for Jesus?
By Michael S. Arnold

(March 6) -- During the pope's upcoming visit, Israeli leaders are
unlikely to use the fact that Jesus was Jewish to strengthen their
political claims, while the Palestinians will probably claim him as
the
first of their people, regardless of historical truths -- He was
perhaps
the most famous Jew of all time, yet his own people don't claim him.
If
Israel is not careful, some analysts warn, the Palestinian Authority
will
claim him instead - appropriating the figure of Jesus to the
Palestinian
national cause as part of a larger effort to snatch the deed to the
Holy
Land from under Israel's feet. Some Jews, who for 2,000 years have
shunned
the figure of Jesus because of the antisemitic persecution carried
out in
his name, slowly are coming around to an appreciation of the man as a
politically-aware rabbi whose message was born of the Jews'
contemporary
national struggle. Yet while Jews are just beginning to make their
peace
with the historical Jesus, the Palestinian Authority is propagating a
less
historical, more mythical figure to bolster its ties to the land:
"Jesus,
the first Palestinian." SOME MIGHT argue that, had they ...

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http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2000/03/05/Features/Features.3571.html

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Subject: [BPR] - Temple Mount Info...
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Shophar_Sho_Good")
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:07:50 -0500

For studying or teaching topics related to the Temple
Mount, the following links are a great addition...

A Project of Moshiach.com
http://moshiach.com/mikdosh/index1.html

THE TEMPLE PAGE
http://home.talkcity.com/ParadiseDr/nkuehl/index3.html

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Subject: [BPR] - Census Breakdown
From: bpr-list@philologos.org
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:25:00 -0500

DRUDGE REPORT
WED MARCH 15 2000 21:52:09 ET

CENSUS BREAKDOWN: CITIZENS TELL SAM TO SHOVE IT OVER
PROBING QUESTIONS; WILL PAY FINE

Americans from coast to coast are expressing shock and
outrage over the level of detailed questioning from the
federal government and the 2000 Census, with thousands of
citizens vowing to pay fines rather than submit to the
private nature of the inquisition, according to
congressional sources.

"The census count is already breaking down," said one Hill
source. "People are in revolt! Calls are flooding into our
office... They are very upset about the intrusive nature of
the questions, such as how a person gets to work, whether
they have any disabilities, how many cars they own, what
their income was and who they work for!"

The Constitution of the United States grants the
government authority to count population, but a "long form"
being sent to 1 out of 6 American households strays far
from that goal; requiring answers to more than 53 personal
questions or risk penalty.

U.S. Code, Title 13, Section 221 states citizens must
fully comply with the census or face a $100 fine. There is
a $500 penalty for giving false information.

Census officials received more than 600,000 phone calls on
Tuesday, according to officials. The majority of the
callers lodged complaints about the probing nature of the
census questions.

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http://drudgereport.com

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Subject: [BPR] - Black Hole Kit...
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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 12:54:20 -0500

Art of darkness
http://www.newscientist.com/features/features_22301.html

There could be a way to create black holes right here on
Earth. If it works, says Michael Brooks, the holes will
reveal some of the Universe's deepest secrets ONE DAY soon,
a courier will knock gingerly on the door of a physics lab
and hand over a box labelled "Black Hole Kit: Handle With
Care". Then he'll probably run. So perhaps the box should
also bear the reassuring words of the device's inventor,
Ulf Leonhardt: "The concerned reader should note that
optical black holes are safe." No one, repeat, no one, is
going to be sucked into oblivion. Leonhardt and his
colleague Paul Piwnicki at the Royal Institute of
Technology in Sweden have devised a way to create black
holes in the lab. Inside their machines, light will be
sucked in, never to return. These strange devices may
uncover some even stranger natural laws. They might prove
that the only thing able to escape from black holes,
Hawking radiation, really exists. They might also provide
an experimental stage for quantum gravity, the attempt to
unite quantum mechanics with Einstein's general theory of
relativity. This synthesis has evaded physicists for
decades, and it could lead to still grander theories that
unite all the forces of nature. Real black holes suck in
light using their ultrapowerful gravity. Any object with
mass distorts space-time, creating a kind of depression in
the cosmos, ... MORE...

http://www.newscientist.com/features/features_22301.html

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Subject: [BPR] - Big Brother Goes Retail...
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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 12:56:29 -0500

Hot shopping
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news_223031.html

HARD as it is to believe as you struggle to find things,
supermarket layouts are the result of careful planning. And
to make sure the design is right, your every move could
soon be tracked by a heat-seeking computer network.
Retailers invest heavily in research that reveals how to
design stores to maximise profits. To do this, researchers
furtively follow customers through shops, writing down
everything they do.But IBM has now developed a computer
system called Footprints that uses a network of infrared
detectors to track shoppers as they move through the store.
Footprints will not only allow store managers to see how
customers respond to new products, says Howard Sachar, head
of the project at IBM's Research Center in New York, it
will also allow them to manage their stores better. The
advantage of using infrared images is that they are less
"noisy" than normal videos. To work out a shopper's path,
all the computer needs to do is track areas of temperature
changes. The infrared detectors slightly overlap each
other, making it easy to track blobs of temperature changes
from one sensor to the next. Because the system doesn't use
video images, Sachar says the technology also protects
consumers' privacy. "One of the nice things about this
technology is that we are only interested in warm bodies,"
he says. But in theory, matching the times "blobs" reach
tills with details of debit or credit card transactions
could reveal people's identities.

Duncan Graham-Rowe From
New Scientist magazine, 18 March 2000.

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