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Subject: [BPR] - Digital Angel
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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 08:41:46 -0500

MONDAY MARCH 20 2000

YOUR PAPERS, PLEASE ... Big Brother gets under your skin
Ultimate ID badge, transceiver implanted in humans
monitored by GPS satellites

New implant technology currently used to locate lost pets
has been adapted for use in humans, allowing implant
wearers to emit a homing beacon, have vital bodily
functions monitored and confirm identity when making e-
commerce transactions. Applied Digital Solutions, an e-
business to business solutions provider, acquired the
patent rights to the miniature digital transceiver it has
named "Digital Angel®." The company plans to market the
device for a number of uses, including as a "tamper-proof
means of identification for enhanced e-business security."

Digital Angel® sends and receives data and can be
continuously tracked by global positioning satellite
technology. When implanted within a body, the device is
powered electromechanically through the movement of muscles
and can be activated either by the "wearer" or by a
monitoring facility.

-- more --

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_fosterj_news/20000320_xnfoj_big_brothe.shtml

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Also read a commentary on the "Digital Angel" at

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_kupelian/20000320_xcdku_revelation.shtml

"A few years ago there may have been resistance, but not
anymore," Dr. Peter Zhou, chief scientist for development
of the implant and president of ADS subsidiary
DigitalAngel.net Inc. told WorldNetDaily.com. "People are
getting used to having implants. New century, new trend."

In a spine-tingling comment on mankind's future, Zhou
added, "We will be a hybrid of electronic intelligence and
our own soul."

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Subject: [BPR] - Fighter jets seen heading towards Fujian
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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 08:52:51 -0500

Monday, March 20, 2000

Fighter jets seen heading towards Fujian
CHOW CHUNG-YAN

Large numbers of fighter jets were seen flying towards
Fujian province yesterday from Guangdong, as tension across
the Taiwan Strait escalated. A witness at Huizhou, 40km
from Shenzhen, saw delta-wing fighter jets heading
northeast towards Fujian and Taiwan.

"Every two or three minutes, a fighter jet went over our
heads. This lasted for four hours non-stop," he said.

He estimated that about 100 fighter jets had flown across
the sky towards Fujian.

"They go pretty regularly, one at a time. The planes are
gaining altitude but their landing gear is down, for some
reason I don't understand."

The fighters were a mix of modern jets and older planes.

"There used to be planes flying around but local people
say they have never seen that many," the witness said.

A People's Liberation Army air base for Sukhoi-27 fighters
is situated in Guangdong's Suixi county at Maoming, which
President Jiang Zemin inspected during his trip around the
province last month.

http://www.scmp.com/News/China/Article/FullText_asp_ArticleID-20000320
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Subject: [BPR] - WeNT: March 19, 2000
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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:16:06 -0500

Selected Items from Weekend News Today
See URL for complete issue:

http://upway.com/cgi-bin/readnews?day=00_03_19

03/19/00

Jordan prepares to receive Pope today

Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: Ha'aretz

Sun Mar 19,2000 -- Pope John Paul II arrives in Jordan
today for his first ever visit to the kingdom before
continuing to Israel and the Palestinian Authority on his
historic six-day pilgrimage. The Pope will land around noon
at and will be greeted by King Abdullah. He will then
travel to Mt. Nebo, some 40 km. from Amman, the site from
which Moses is said to have seen the Land of Israel. The
Pope will visit a sixth-century church built on the ruins
of an earlier monastery that marked the site of the last
days of Moses. The next day, he will go to the site known
as Martas (Wadi Al-Kharrar), about 1.5 km. from the Jordan
River where, according to some traditions, Jesus was
baptized by John the Baptist at the start of his preaching
mission. Here the Pope will bless the throng of believers
expected to gather at the site.

Before he left yesterday John Paul asked Catholics to pray
for the success of his historic visit to the Middle East.
"I ask you to pray for my visit to the Holy Land, that it
might be full of significance," he said. The Pope said he
hoped his visit would "bring forth the good fruits of hope
for the entire church." A Vatican spokesman added that the
Pope wanted his visit "to serve the interests of peace, a
just peace which is lacking in [Israel and the PA]."

Who will fly the Pope on Shabbat?

Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: Ha'aretz

Sun Mar 19,2000 -- The question of who will actually fly
the pontiff's helicopter on Shabbat between Jerusalem and
Nazareth is beginning to look like the "turbine affair"
that threatened the government last year. Pope John Paul II
is scheduled to fly during Shabbat on an airforce
helicopter. This is getting some cosmetic work to transform
its rough military visage into something more appropriate
for the Holy Father. It will be flown by an airforce pilot -
but the IAF does not fly on Shabbat, except on operational
assignments which - by any stretch of the imagination -
this is not.

However, on the eve of the visit, the tensions are not
only mounting on the Arab-Israeli front. Within the
Catholic community in Israel - about 100,000 - there is
more criticism. At the entrance to the Notre Dame hostel in
Jerusalem, sat a small group of Christians from Nazareth.
Their visit had nothing to do with the Pope's visit. Their
comments certainly did. "This visit concentrates on the
holy sites instead of on the Christians living here and
whose situation is very difficult," said Father Munir,
principal at a Nazareth elementary school.

"We see that local Christians are viewed as insignificant.
In my view, people are more precious than all the stones of
the holy sites but the Christians living here are left
outside the visit." Father Munir's sentiments are reflected
in a new study done by a German researcher on the relations
between the Vatican, the Palestinians and Israel. According
to the study, in contrast to the interest of the Vatican in
every Catholic community in the world, its main interest in
our region lies in the holy sites and not in the Catholic
community.

PA-Pope Temple Mount rendezvous

Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: Arutz-7

Sun Mar 19,2000 -- The Pope's upcoming visit continues to
be the focus of public attention. Jewish activists on
behalf of Israeli control over the Temple Mount - headed by
Moshe Feiglin's Zo Artzeinu organization - are warning of
what they understand to be the threat to Israel's
sovereignty posed by the Papal visit. According to Hillel
Weiss":

"Much of the public is unaware that the Pope plans to be
greeted on the Mount by Palestinian paramilitary police and
senior PA officials, and the complex will be decked out
with PLO flags. Let nobody be fooled, political support for
the Palestinians - and not religious reasons - is the main
purpose of the Pope's trip to Israel. It is a clear follow-
up of last month's PLO-Papal Jerusalem declaration. Our job
is to prevent this event from taking place."

The first step of those concerned with what they expect to
be a Church-approved statement of Palestinian sovereignty
in Jerusalem is a massive prayer vigil tomorrow afternoon
at the Western Wall. "We must cry out to G-d tomorrow, on
the Fast of Esther, to beseech Him to cancel this evil
decree, as he did in the days of Haman." He stressed that
if the prayer does not succeed in preventing the PA-Pope
Temple Mount ceremony, "those concerned with the future of
Jerusalem will join us for a huge protest during the
ceremony itself," said Weiss. Tomorrow's Western Wall
prayers have been given the approval of many prominent
rabbis, led by former Chief Sephardic Rabbi Mordechai
Eliyahu.

Dire scenario predicted by Barak if peace fails with Syria

Weekend News Today
By Kelly Pagatpatan
Source: Middle East Newsline

Sun Mar 19,2000 -- Prime Minister Ehud Barak is portraying
a dire scenario for Israel if peace efforts with Syria
fail. The warning comes as Israeli officials said they will
know within the next two weeks whether Syria has accepted a
U.S.-draft peace treaty that would include a full Israeli
withdrawal from the Golan Heights. "The younger generation
and the rest of the public will have to brace themselves
for the hard days ahead," Barak told a Labor Party
convention in Haifa. "We are not closing the door. Both
Syria and Israel have a strategic interest in peace. But it
takes two to tango. We will not sign an agreement at any
cost."

Israel government approves maps, withdrawal on Tuesday

Weekend News Today
By Andra Brack
Source: IsraelWire

Sun Mar 19,2000 -- Of 23 government ministers, 16 voted in
favor of the 6.1 percent land withdrawal. The withdrawal
will take place this week to coincide with the resumption
of talks between Israel and the PA. 5.1% of Area B (PA
civil and Israeli security control) will become Area A
(total PA control) and 1% of Area C (total Israeli control)
will become Area A. The transfer of authority for these
areas according to the government will take place on
Tuesday, March 21, 2000.

WeNT Editor's note: This withdrawal will mean Jerusalem
will be surrounded by land in PA control in suburbs to the
north, south, and east. The land will be turned over on
Purim.

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Subject: [BPR] - Satellite folly as billions burn in space
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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:45:08 -0500

Satellite folly as billions burn in space

Robin McKie, Science Editor
Sunday March 19, 2000

It is destined to be the most costly technological blunder
in history. Sixty-six satellites which cost the Iridium
telecommunications group more than $5 billion to build and
launch are to be sent spiralling into Earth's atmosphere
and allowed to burn up, it was announced yesterday. The
decision follows the Washington-based company's failure to
find a buyer to rescue it from bankruptcy and adds a new
name to the list of the world's greatest scientific
failures.

http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/Distribution/Redirect_Artifact/0,4678,0
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Subject: [BPR] - ReligionToday News Summary for Monday, March 20, 2000
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Shophar_Sho_Good")
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:47:55 -0500

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C U R R E N T N E W S S U M M A R Y
by the Editors of ReligionToday

March 20, 2000

In the limelight during the NCAA basketball tournament is
Shane Battier, a leader of the top-ranked Duke University
team and a committed Christian. The 6-foot-9-inch forward,
a senior and a religion major, likely will be a top draft
pick in the National Basketball Association. Back home in
Troy, Mich., he is a member of Lutheran Church of the
Master. "He's the most meticulous and thoughtful young man
I've ever met," Thomas Barbret, his pastor, told The
Lutheran, a magazine published by the Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America.

..Battier was interviewed by the press and scouted by
coaches before he was 13. "When he was 16, he came to my
office - by then everyone knew he was headed to the big
time," Barbret said. "He said, 'You must have a spiritual
side if you are going to be a whole person.' Then he asked
if he could teach vacation Bible school." At a recent game
between Duke and Michigan, a girl held up a sign that read:
"Shane Battier was my Vacation Bible School Teacher."

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Current Feature Story from ReligionToday:

Great harvest of souls in Ethiopia

The Christian church continues to grow in Ethiopia, an
east African country that has suffered drought, famine, and
war in the past 20 years.

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Subject: [BPR] - Christian Daily News Items....
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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:50:06 -0500

[Christian Daily News]

Published by Christian Word Ministries
March 16, 2000

I am certain, LORD, that you will help your chosen
king. You will answer my prayers from your holy place in
Heaven, and you will save me with your mighty arm. Pslams
20:6 (CEV)

BHUBANESWAR, India -- The Christian community here in the
state of Orissa is outraged by a state government circular
that is requiring churches to supply details of conversions
that have been carried out in the last five years. Several
churches and Christian organizations said they will
challenge the order in a court of law and intend to place a
complaint with the National Human Rights Commission. "I
feel the order is unconstitutional. The state government is
trying to decide who will follow which religion," Rev.
Samson Das of English Baptist Church said. According to
Rev. Pradeep Kumar Das, it would be impossible to supply
data like this. "How can we put a number on that?"

ALEXANDRIA, Md. (USA) -- As part of the 2000 Census you'll
receive this month you'll probably be asked questions about
your age or the age of your house but you will not find a
question about your religion. "We get into enough trouble
asking people about their income," explains Mike Hovland, a
historian with the U.S. Census Bureau. "If we considered
(asking about religion), we'd be in trouble up to our
eyebrows." According to Peter Halvorson, a geography
professor at the University of Connecticut, it wasn't
always that way. By 1890, the Census questions asked about
everything from the number of pews in the churches to the
amount of people who sat in them. Then, by 1936, "this
desire to know began to run into people saying, 'It's none
of your business,'" said Halvorson. "This is a very
religiously observant society," notes Halvorson. "But,
strangely, we've shut ourselves off from that information."

Datelines specify the location of the story, not
necessarily the location of the writer who gathered the
information for the story.

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Subject: [BPR] - NANOTECHNOLOGY
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Shophar_Sho_Good")
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:51:47 -0500

NewsScan Daily, 17 March 2000 ("Above The Fold")

NewsScan Daily is underwritten by IEEE Computer Society
and Arthur Andersen, world-class organizations making
significant and sustained contributions to the effective
management and appropriate use of information technology.
NSD is written by John Gehl and Suzanne Douglas,
editors@NewsScan.com.

IBM ADVANCE IN NANOTECHNOLOGY

IBM researchers say they have discovered chemical
reactions that cause arrays of tiny particles (so tiny that
they are 1/20,000th the width of a human hair) to assemble
themselves in precise formations. It's an achievement that
could lead to the development of terabyte disk drives with
more than a hundred times the capacity of typical hard
drives today. Calling the discovery a significant
breakthrough in the effort to build microscopic circuitry,
New York Times technology expert John Markoff notes: "Self-
replication, the holy grail of nanotechnology, is widely
viewed as the key to an entirely new industrial era that
may one day replace modern microelectronic systems." IBM
executives are cautioning that it will take some years
before this scientific advance can be translated into
commercial products. (New York Times 17 Mar 2000)

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Subject: [BPR] - Vatican confirms Pope trip to Fatima May 13
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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 13:55:21 -0500

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3/20/2000 09:28:00 ET

Vatican confirms Pope trip to Fatima May 13

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope John Paul will travel to the Portuguese
shrine of Fatima on May 13 to beatify two shepherd children believed
to have been visited by the Virgin Mary there, a Vatican official
confirmed on Monday.

The Vatican last June cleared the way to the beatification -- a
stepping stone to sainthood -- of two of three children said to have
had visions at Fatima between May and October 1917, when it recognised
a miracle attributed to them.

Both Francisco and Giacinta Marto, who were brother and sister, died
of illnesses several years after the visions. The only surviving
member of the trio, Lucia dos Santos, is now 92 and lives in a convent
near the Portuguese town of Coimbra.

Archbishop Cresenzio Sepe, secretary of the Vatican committee planning
events for the year 2000, confirmed that the Pontiff would visit
Fatima on May 13, as had been reported.

It will be the third time that the Pope has visited Fatima, one of
Catholicism's most revered sites.

May 13 has a double significance, marking not only the first of the
six days on which the Virgin is believed to have appeared to the
children, but also the date in 1981 when the Pope was nearly killed in
a assassination attempt.

Turkish gunman Mehmet Ali Agca shot and severely wounded the Pope in
St Peter's Square, and the Pontiff believes it was the Virgin who
saved his life.

On a previous visit to the shrine, 130 km (80 miles) north of Lisbon,
the Pope left one of the bullets fired by Agca in the crown of the
statue of the Madonna there.

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Subject: [BPR] - Nobody Can Explain Russia's Leader
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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 13:58:34 -0500

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Nobody Can Explain Russia's Leader

Associated Press
March 20, 2000; 1:15 a.m. EST

MOSCOW –– When Russians were asked to compare Vladimir Putin to an
animal by pollsters, most people had the same response: a fox or a
wolf – cunning, elusive and dangerous.

The jarring comparison symbolizes how many Russians admire Putin as a
strong leader and how little they know about the man. There is even
less to explain his meteoric rise to the top of the Russian government
and what looks like certain victory in March 26 presidential
elections.

"Putin remains as much a riddle to Russians as he does to" the rest of
the world, said Thomas Graham of the Carnegie Endowment.

That doesn't matter to Russian voters, angry and disillusioned by
years of chaos and corruption. They believe Putin can end the
lawlessness infecting Russia by doling out bare-knuckle justice. And
they don't seem too worried about just how far he goes.

Others, far fewer, see Putin as a specter from the Soviet past.
Critics say the ex-KGB officer is masquerading as a democrat and that
he will bring back the iron rule of the secret police.

"Members of the future president's inner circle look like his twin
brothers – all lean, neat, with officers' bearing, faces absolutely
devoid of any expression and empty glazed eyes," the liberal weekly
Itogi said.

With his trademark poker face, Putin denies he will be a dictator as
calmly as if he were declining an offer of coffee. But he is vague
about his plans beyond saying he will continue reform while increasing
state controls.

Uncertainty about Putin cuts across every group and class. Some
democrats say Putin is a reformer, others claim he is a fascist.
Communists say Putin will wreck Russia with market reform, while some
reformers fear he will choke free enterprise. Some people find him
strong and inspiring, to others he is menacing, and some say he is
bland.

Putin's background has been turned inside out for insights to explain
the man who could lead Russia for a decade and who will have his
finger on the nuclear trigger. The digging has produced many questions
and few answers.

Short, slender, with blond hair and penetrating blue eyes, Putin comes
across as stern, often cold. "Frankly speaking, I do not experience
any internal conflict, vacillation or torment," he once said.

Few people seem to have known Putin in the past, or are not willing to
say much if they did. Those who work with him now all sound as if they
are reading the same script, praising Putin as bright and hardworking.
Nobody offers personal details, or claims to be a friend or intimate.

Trying to soften Putin's image, aides have trickled out a few personal
details. He has a wife, two children and a poodle and is said to be a
devout Christian. But it was film of Putin, a judo black belt,
flipping opponents that really grabbed public interest.

"He's a well-disciplined person, and discipline is what our country
needs most of all," said Lyuba Belova, a worker at a factory Putin
visited.

The one part of his past that Putin seems happy discussing are his
years in the Soviet secret police, which at its height killed and
imprisoned millions. He says the KGB's work was deplorable, but
praises its skill.

In an unspectacular 15-year KGB career, Putin worked against
dissidents in the Soviet Union and as a spy in the former East
Germany. Putin says his KGB chiefs considered him a bit reckless.

"I don't and I didn't think that I had a decreased sense of danger,
but psychologists came to this conclusion having followed my behavior
for a long time," he said.

Putin's career blossomed after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when
he says he was free to show his true feelings and back democratic
reform. In a few years, he shot from obscurity to the top for reasons
that are not clear, although he seemed to have a knack for pleasing
powerful bosses.

In a nation where corruption allegations have tainted many prominent
people, there is no evidence that Putin tried to enrich himself.

Nonetheless, Putin rose through bodies with unsavory records. He was a
deputy mayor in St. Petersburg, a city that become a byword for
corruption; worked in the Kremlin's finance agency, the focus of
corruption allegations involving ex-President Boris Yeltsin's family;
and was regarded as a hard-liner when he headed the KGB's successor,
the Federal Security Service.

With no clear accomplishments and largely unknown, Putin was named
prime minister by Yeltsin in August 1999. Four months later, Yeltsin
resigned, saying Putin was the best man to defend Russia's young
democracy.

The chemistry that charmed Putin's superiors worked with many ordinary
Russians. Almost overnight, Putin became the most popular politician
in Russia, hailed for his handling of the war against separatists in
Chechnya and his talk of tough rule.

"Putin enjoys such broad support because people don't know what kind
of person he is, and they pin their expectations on him," said Boris
Nemtsov, a former prime minister. "As people get to know Putin, they
will become more sober."

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