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Subject: [BPR] - Mary 'appears' near Elian
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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 07:42:22 -0500

Published Sunday, March 26, 2000, in the Miami Herald

Mary 'appears' near Elian

BY SANDRA MARQUEZ GARCIA
smarquez@herald.com

A cloud-like image believed by some to be an apparition of
the Virgin Mary graced the window pane of a Miami bank
located just blocks from the home of Elian Gonzalez
Saturday --stopping traffic and offering hope to hundreds
of supporters who want to keep the Cuban boy here.

Bank employees first spotted the luminous reflection --
capped by an iridescent mixture of gold, purple and green --
earlier this week. As word of the vision spread, and the
colors failed to fade with repeated cleanings, the entrance
of Totalbank, 468 NW 27th Ave., has come to resemble a
shrine.

On Saturday, women with curlers still in their hair
hastily dropped their chores to pay homage to the Virgin.
They were joined by families in sport-utility vehicles with
camcorders and others on their way home from weddings and
grocery stores.

Some people rubbed their babies against the window pane
for good luck. Others scrubbed the surface with paper
towels to see if they could make the image go away.

Tessy Lopez, 62, of Miami Beach beamed with joy as she
regarded the apparition. Like many others gathered at the
site, Lopez said she considered it to be a sign of an
impending miracle for Elian, the 6-year-old Cuban rafter
who survived a voyage that killed his mother and 10 others.

''I think that boy is blessed. Many people gave their
lives for that boy, and he lives blocks from here,'' Lopez
said. ''We must realize this is an important sign.''

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http://www.herald.com/content/sun/docs/025573.htm

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Subject: [BPR] - Olympic Torch to Go Underwater
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 09:02:08 -0500

Monday March 27 12:01 PM ET

Olympic Torch to Go Underwater

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The torch relay leading up to the Sydney Olympics
later this year will feature the first ever underwater leg through the Great
Barrier Reef.

A trial of aquatic flame technology had been successfully completed to allow
the underwater leg to go ahead on June 27, a spokeswoman for the Sydney
Olympic organizers, Di Henry, told ABC news on Sunday.

A local scuba diving marine biologist will swim the torch, burning at 2000
degrees, on a three to four minute journey through the reef.

Pyrotechnic technology had been developed to make a ``fierce flame'' too
powerful to be drowned out by water, creators of the torch, Melbourne-based
Pains Wessex Australia, said.

The underwater leg would showcase Queensland's Great Barrier Reef, a
leading coral tourist attraction, Henry said.

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000327/od/olympics_torch_1.html

via: http://www.newsviewtoday.com/

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Subject: [BPR] - Japan earthquake
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 09:06:41 -0500

00/03/28 11:00:20 UTC 22.41N 143.59E Depth: 116.2 km 7.7Mw
VOLCANO ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION

215 miles (350 km) SE of Iwo-jima, Volcano Islands

The following is a release by the United States Geological Survey, National
Earthquake Information Center: A major earthquake occurred 220 miles (350
km) southeast of Iwo-jima or 940 miles (1520 km) south-southeast of Tokyo,
Japan at 4:00 AM MST today, Mar 28, 2000 (9:00 PM local time in Volcano
Islands). A PRELIMINARY MAGNITUDE OF 7.7 WAS COMPUTED FOR
THIS EARTHQUAKE. The magnitude and location may change slightly as
additional data are received from other seismograph stations. This
earthquake is located in a remote area and at intermediate depth. Therefore
no damage or casualties are expected. This is the largest earthquake in
this general area since a magnitude 8.7 event on November 24, 1914.

More:
http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/000328110020.HTML

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Subject: [BPR] - Jordan, Japan sign accord to replace King Hussein bridge
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Khazneh")
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 10:51:59 -0500

Jordan, Japan sign accord to replace King Hussein bridge

AMMAN (J.T.) — Jordan and Japan on Wednesday signed an agreement in Tokyo
whereby a Japanese firm will undertake the construction of a $9.7 million
bridge to replace the King Hussein Bridge, built as a temporary structure
in 1968.

Minister of Public Works Hosni Abu Ghaida was in Japan to sign the
agreement with a representative of the Japan International Cooperation
Agency (JICA) which is sponsoring the construction work.

The planned four-lane bridge over the Jordan River will be built by the
Somoto Company, which won the JICA tender against four other contracting
firms with the lowest price quotation and its reputation in bridge
construction, Abu Ghaida said.

The project includes the laying of an 8.4-kilometre road leading to the
bridge, which connects Jordan with the West Bank, the minister added.

According to Abu Ghaida, the new bridge is expected to promote economic
and tourist activities between Jordan and Palestine, and is a
manifestation of Japan's support for the Middle East peace process.

He said Japan had also provided nearly $7 million in 1996 to finance the
construction of the Sheikh Hussein Bridge in the north, which connects
Jordan with Israel.

http://www.access2arabia.com/jordantimes/Tue/economy/economy3.htm

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Subject: [BPR] - Japan warns of possible volcanic eruption
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Shophar_Sho_Good")
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 13:16:30 -0500

http://www.canoe.ca/TopStories/volcanic_mar28.html

Japan warns of possible volcanic eruption
Tuesday, March 28, 2000

TOKYO (AP) -- Mount Usu, a volcano on Japan's northern
Hokkaido island, is in danger of erupting following a
series of tremors related to volcanic activity, the
Meteorological Agency warned Tuesday. The agency issued an
emergency volcano warning at 2:50 a.m. after the number and
size of quakes increased around the base of the 2,416-foot
mountain. Three towns with a combined population of 51,300
are near the mountain. While each town is monitoring the
volcano and has notified residents of the possible danger,
none has issued orders to evacuate, spokesmen for each
said. "The tremors are occurring more frequently but
there's still no indication of movement in the volcano's
magma that would lead to an eruption," said Katsuhiro
Morita, a spokesman for Date city, located about four miles
from the volcano. The Meteorological Agency said it
recorded as many as 30 quakes in an hour, the same number
normally registered in a month. Some of the quakes were big
enough to be felt by humans. The mountain, located about 42
miles southwest of Sapporo, last erupted in 1978, killing
two and destroying 196 homes, said Takaharu Kiriyama, a
spokesman for the National Land Agency. The National Land
Agency is charged with gathering information and
disseminating it to the appropriate government
bureaucracies, Kiriyama said. Orders to evacuate the towns
rests with the respective local governments. Sapporo is
located about 520 miles northwest of Tokyo.

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Subject: [BPR] - Nuclear Danger in South Asia
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Shophar_Sho_Good")
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 13:20:59 -0500

Nuclear Danger in South Asia

http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=2000/3/28/55112

March 28, 2000

When senior U.S. officials call the India-Pakistan enmity
over Kashmir the most dangerous nuclear flash point in the
world, they are not crying wolf. U.S. intelligence experts
believe the tensions between nuclear-armed India and
Pakistan are in many respects far more serious - and far
more likely to lead to nuclear war - than those between the
United States and the Soviet Union during the worst times
of the Cold War. With the exception of the brief,
terrifying weeks of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, the
United States and the Soviet Union never came close to
direct conflict during the entire Cold War. Their global
game of power chess was fought using allied and Third World
nations as the pieces. Also, although the United States and
the Soviet Union for decades threatened each other with
vast arsenals of nuclear missiles and atomic-armed manned
bombers, the very scale of their weapons systems on both
sides helped maintain the peace. Each side had so many
weapons and combat systems to deliver them that it was
impossible for either side to wipe the other out in a pre-
emptive first strike. But impoverished India and Pakistan
face each other in conflict already across the Line of
Control in northern Kashmir and neither side is backing
down.

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Subject: [BPR] - The Coming United Religions
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Shophar_Sho_Good")
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 13:24:27 -0500

The Coming United Religions
by WILLIAM E. SWING,
Bishop of California

For more than 100 years, visionaries have been dreaming of
a day when the world's religions could work together for
peace. "That day is coming -soon!" writes Bishop William E.
Swing. He and others in the United Religions Initiative
(URI) have already held consultations with numerous
religious and spiritual leaders during global summits,
regional conferences, and interviews. The 1998 Summit
endorsed an innovative draft of the United Religions
Charter, and the group is planning to inaugurate the UR in
the year 2000. Meanwhile, URI is reaching across the planet
to gather insights and support from people, young and old,
of every faith.

Reviews:

"May the Initiative described in this book succeed for the
sake of all believers!" The Most Reverend Desmond M. Tutu,
Archbishop Emeritus

Why a United Religions now?

* On the threshold of the first global civilization, we
face crises in which people of all faiths play significant
roles - for good or ill.

* Nations have been working for peace through the UN for
more than 50 years, but religions do not yet have a daily,
global forum for dialogue, conflict resolution, and
cooperative action.

* With the approaching millennium come rising expectations
of a new spiritual paradigm, beyond the clash of beliefs,
where believers respect the differences as well as the
wisdom in other faiths.

* As emerging "global ethic," initiated at the 1993
Parliament of the World's Religions, invites the consensus
of religions and spiritual traditions, but also needs a
permanent forum for its expression.

William E. Swing, Episcopal Bishop of California, has been
a primary catalyst for the creation of a United Religions
since 1993. Part One is his story building on the work and
vision of many others for more than 100 years.

Part Two of this book reflects the work of many others. It
includes the 1998 drafts of the Charter, organizational
design, and action agendas such as the 72 Hours for Peace
project at the New Year, and opportunities for reader
feedback and participation.

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Subject: [BPR] - BIRTH of the United Religions
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Shophar_Sho_Good")
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 13:30:10 -0500

[Moderator: For information purposes only. In other
words, we aren't encouraging BPR members to sign up.]

A CALL TO PARTICIPATE in the BIRTH of the United Religions
Initiative

http://www.united-religions.org/newsite/media/spring00.pdf

Prepare for the birth with 72 Hours of Interfaith Prayer,
Practice and Ceremony June 23 - 25, 2000

You are invited to join with people on every continent to
participate in the birth of the URI.

Building on the profound impact of 72 Hours of
Peacebuilding Dec. 31 - Jan. 2, 2000, the URI is calling
people to support the birth of the URI with 72 hours of
prayer, practice and ceremony. The 72 hour period from June
23-25 is an opportunity to welcome the URI with your
prayers, meditation and signing ceremonies in locales
around the world. Join with others to offer blessings on
the new organization, invoking its potential to be an
active hope in the world. Invite people to affirm the URI's
purpose and acclaim its birth by signing the opening line
of the Preamble to the Charter (see newsletter insert).
Signatures from individuals, groups and organiza-tions will
allow people all over the world to be a part of the Global
Signing Ceremony June 26 and serve to help sustain the
spirit of the URI.

HOMEPAGE
http://www.united-religions.org/newsite/media/index.htm

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Subject: [BPR] - Mary, Mary, quite contrary.
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 19:55:32 -0500

moza@butterfly.mv.com

Mary, Mary, quite contrary.
21 Adar II, 5760
March 28, 2000

Is the Roman Catholic Mary the same Mary, mother of Jesus, in the
Bible?

1. Roman Catholic Mary
She is supposedly sinless: "...she was preserved from all stain of original
sin and by a special grace of God committed no sin of any kind during her
whole earthly life." (Catechism of the Catholic Church, c. 1994, p. 104,
sect. 411)

1. Mary of the Bible:
She found herself in the temple after giving birth:

Luke 2:22-24 And when the days of her purification according to the law
of Moses were accomplished, they brought him [Jesus] to Jerusalem, to
present him to the Lord; (As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every
male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;) And to
offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A
pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.

She was there with a burnt and a sin offering as per the law:

Leviticus 12:2,4,6-8 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a
woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be
unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her
infirmity shall she be unclean...And she shall then continue in the blood of
her purifying three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor
come into the sanctuary, until the days of her purifying be fulfilled...And
when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for a daughter,
she shall bring a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering, and a young
pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering, unto the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation, unto the priest: Who shall offer it before the LORD,
and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue
of her blood. This is the law for her that hath born a male or a female.
And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtles, or
two young pigeons; the one for the burnt offering, and the other for a sin
offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be
clean.

The act of childbirth itself renders the woman impure for a stated number
of days until reconciliation is afforded through the offerings. The Roman
Catholic Mary could not have physically given birth to Jesus or she
would've become unclean and would have been in need of atonement.

2. Roman Catholic Mary
She didn't physically give birth to Jesus (or she would've lost her "sinless"
state).

2. Mary of the Bible
Through her the Word was made flesh. She was just like any other
woman otherwise Jesus would've been born of two sinless "parents" and
there's no way we can relate to that. One part of the male/female equation
had to be just like us for Jesus to qualify as a substitute for the rest of us.
If both Jesus' parents had been sinless, he could've only come to save the
sinless (which doesn't seem to make sense does it?).

There even seems to be a dispute within the Roman Catholic Church
regarding Mary's identity (unless they have 2 Marys). On one hand they
have the sinless Mary and then they state that this same Mary is the
woman in Revelation 12:

1,2 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with
the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of
twelve stars: And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained
to be delivered.

The woman in Revelation 12 is in pain so she can't be the original sinless
Mary. The reason for pain during childbirth is because of Eve's eating
from the forbidden tree:

Gen 3:16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and
thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire
shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

I don't know how to reconcile the two; either there's pain because of sin
or there isn't.

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Subject: [BPR] - Clues to Mysterious Meteor Sounds Sought in Iridium Satellite Suicides
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 20:06:04 -0500

Clues to Mysterious Meteor Sounds Sought In Iridium
Satellite Suicides

By Robery Roy Britt, Senior Science Writer and Mary Motta,
Senior Business Correspondent posted: 12:56 pm ET 28 March
2000

While playing stickball one evening in the early 1970s in
Dover, Delaware, Chuck Bonner and his playmates heard a
loud, abnormal whistling noise accompanied by a buzz. The
teenagers ran around the house, expecting to find an
airplane plunging earthward.

Instead they spotted a green fireball as large as a full
moon streaking across the sky.

Ever since, Bonner (now a software designer who runs a
website called Lunar Colony) has wondered how he could have
heard the apparent meteor before he saw it, since sound
travels much slower than light.

Scientists have been wondering the same thing -- for a lot
longer. And now they have the opportunity to study this
phenomenon in a giant lab experiment in the sky.

At Bonner's suggestion, researchers will keep their eyes
and ears open to monitor what happens when 66 Volkswagen-
sized Iridium spacecraft will be deorbited into a fiery
suicide dive to Earth. Scientists hope the artificial
meteors will simulate real space rocks burning up in the
atmosphere, yielding clues to what causes this mysterious
cacophony of sounds.

Mystery meteor sound

There are only a handful of "earwitness" accounts of these
melodious symphonies in the sky. One account from China in
817 AD tells of a noise "like a flock of cranes in flight."

A common and curious thread in these tales is that the
sound seems to travel at the speed of light -- even faster
in some cases, arriving before there was anything to see.

The accounts have confounded scientists for centuries.
Assuming a meteor is many miles away as it burns up --most
begin vaporizing around at 60 miles (97 kilometers) high --
light would arrive several seconds before sound.

In the early 1700s Sir Edmund Halley, who has a comet
named after him, attributed the reports to the observer´s
imagination. More recently, one scientist spent decades
developing an obscure theory suggesting that these
electrophonic sounds, as they are now called, are the
results of magnetic spaghetti.

Magnetic spaghetti

Australian researcher Colin Keay uses the term to describe
a theory he developed in the early 1980s.

As the theory goes, when a space rock plunges earthward,
friction caused by the atmosphere creates a trail of
electrically charged particles, or plasma, in which Earth's
invisible but potent magnetic field lines become trapped,
tangled and twisted like strings of cooked spaghetti.

This magnetic spaghetti is thought to generate very low
frequency radio waves, says Keay, a researcher at the
University of Newcastle who, though not famous like Halley,
does have an asteroid named after him.

The waves are thought to travel at the speed of light and
are converted into sound when they interact near the ground
with what are called "dielectric media" or "transducers,"
which can be massive ordinary objects or electrical
activity in the lower atmosphere.

Sound crazy?

"It's coming out of the realm of myth and into the realm
of possibility," said Donald Yeomans, a respected and
typically moderate voice on matters of meteors and
asteroids. "But there are some serious doubters."

Yet evidence favoring Keay's idea is mounting, and Yeomans
said he senses a consensus building among serious
scientists that electrophonic sounds from fireballs are
something that should be looked into.

That´s where Dejan Vinkovic, head of the Global Electronic
Fireball Survey at the University of Kentucky, enters the
arena. Vinkovic says there are some 700 known reports of
electrophonic fireballs. His survey has collected five
since the beginning of this year, and he's tracking down
another 20 he's heard about.

Because the odds of witnessing the phenomenon are about as
likely as hitting it big in the lottery, Vinkovic is going
to use Iridium´s necklace of satellites to simulate the
experience.

Based on Chuck Bonner's suggestion via a scholarly
newsletter known as CCNet, Vinkovic will suggest to his
colleagues around the world that they point their video
cameras and radio receivers at the falling satellites, most
of which Iridium plans to bring down over the Pacific.

Motorola, which operates the Iridium satellites, is
hatching a plan with the input of NASA to bring the giant
birds back toward Earth sometime this year.

The satellites, primarily made up of graphite epoxy,
fiberglass and aluminum, will be yanked from orbit one by
one.

The satellites´ on-board propulsion system, which helped
it place it in low Earth orbit, will be used to bring it
back down. By slowing its orbit, the satellite is pulled
closer to Earth. Once it gets to a couple thousand feet
above the surface, aerodynamic forces cause a drag, putting
stress on the spacecraft and causing it to break up and burn.

While much of the spacecraft will vaporize, there is a
chance some pieces will survive and fall to the planet.

"You can never be sure how a satellite is going to break
up," said George Levin, director of the Aeronautics and
Space Engineering Board at the National Research Council.
"You can only make an educated guess because these
satellites were not built as reentry vehicles."

But Vinkovic points out the positive side of deorbiting
Iridium´s satellites.

"One of the problems with meteors is that we don't know
what exactly they are," Vinkovic explained. "So, with the
Iridium satellites we already know the properties, and we
can reduce the number of unknown parameters in our modeling."

By monitoring reentries from around the world, researchers
will be able to study whether the local environment or
ground configuration affects any possible sounds, Vinkovic
told SPACE.com.

How's that sound?

Chuck Bonner would love it if Vinkovic and the other
scientists could solve the mystery that has dogged him
since the early 70s. Though he struggles to remember his
exact age when he saw and heard the apparent meteor, he is
clear about details of the streaking green object.

Bonner tells of ridges and depressions on the object, from
which green dust or smoke emanated.

"This dust remained as a glowing green trail across the
sky that rapidly faded to black or gray, then dissipated,"
Bonner recalled the other day. "The sound continued long
after the fireball was out of sight. I would guess that
from the time I first heard it until it faded to
inaudibility was about 30 seconds."

http://www.space.com/science/iridium_sound_000328.html

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