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To: hennie pennie

22 men aged 18-52 have vanished<<<

That is planned murder and it is not easy to kill a young man, unless you were to drug his drink.


189 posted on 03/05/2010 2:31:48 AM PST by nw_arizona_granny ( garden/survival/cooking/storage- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2299939/posts?page=5555)
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To: nw_arizona_granny; fanfan; Fred Nerks
This article has a VERY sensationalist title, I have NO idea how something this outrageous got by an editor.

There is NOTHING *new* in this entire article and nothing "dark" about Dr. Lachlan Michael David Cranswick is mentioned, much less, "revealed."

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REVEALED: Dark Side of Nuclear Physicist
http://www.smh.com.au/world/revealed-dark-side-of-missing-nuclear-scientist-20100305-pov2.html

DEEP RIVER was a utopia built to house scientists working on the first atomic bomb, and one of their heirs, Lachlan Cranswick, an Australian scientist missing in the harsh Canadian winter, chose to include this mordant 1958 poem by a local physicist on his webpage. The town has a reputation for a kind of tiresome near-perfection made for parody.

Not for nothing did the film director David Lynch have Naomi Watts's character in Mulholland Drive explain her difficulties coping with Hollywood.

''I just came here from Deep River, Ontario, and now I'm in this 'dream place,''' she says. ''You can imagine how I feel.''

Deep River was also the name of the apartment block in another Lynch film, Blue Velvet.

Mr Cranswick's disappearance has an almost Lynch-like sense of absurdity.

Not only does it hint at a dark side of utopia, but his work as a crystallographer - the field of science determining the arrangement of atoms in solids - prompted old Cold War paranoia of stolen nuclear secrets.

But his family in Melbourne says he is a ''stereotypical geek''. Townsfolk paint a picture of a well-liked man, telling the Herald Mr Cranswick was ''enthusiastic, hard-working and dependable'', known locally as the Australian who loved sailing on the wide Ottawa River in summer and, come winter, for his adoption of that Canadian obsession, the sport of curling.

But Mr Cranswick seemed to have an.....

http://www.smh.com.au/world/revealed-dark-side-of-missing-nuclear-scientist-20100305-pov2.html

190 posted on 03/05/2010 7:14:35 AM PST by hennie pennie
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