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Matthew B. Stannard, Henry K. Lee and Suzanne Herel, Chronicle Staff Writers He was a molecular biologist who had run a prestigious genome center in China. She was a successful geneticist, the co-inventor of a patented technique to screen genes in a search for cures to AIDS and cancer. Police are baffled as to why Guyang Matthew Huang killed Tanya Holzmayer on Wednesday night during a bizarre ambush timed to the delivery of a pizza to her home in a quiet Mountain View neighborhood. He later took his own life. One possible clue, however, came from a close associate of ...

STUDENT FILM TURNS CAMERA ON GORE & CHINAGATE! by Hank Willow, staff reporter A new student film targets corrupt politics -- but amazingly! -- its focus is on Al Gore and the Democrats! That's the shocking tale told by San Pedro, a half hour USC student film written & directed by Jason A. Apuzzo, Ph.D., available for online viewing at iFilm.com. San Pedro tells the tale of a hard-boiled bounty hunter (actor John Barrett) who seeks a cursed Chinese statue that threatens to expose Gore's Chinagate connections during the 2000 presidential election. But an immigrant maid (actress Govindini Murty) stumbles ...

MYSTERY RASH HIT UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII A YEAR AND A HALF AGO. COULD IT BE RELATED TO MYSTERY SCHOOL RASH CURRENTLY IN PA, WA, NY, ORE... Monday, October 2, 2000 UH finds an itch, a rash, a mystery By Dan Nakaso Advertiser Staff Writer The itching was incredible. It kept them up at night and even made them skip classes during the day. The little red bumps sometimes spread over the rest of their bodies, oozed with puss and turned into scabs and scars. UH-Manoa student Helene Lizama was one of at least 67 people afflicted by last month's mysterious ...

Bomb Is Suspected In Outage Federal agents are investigating the possibility that an electrical outage at a Utah Power relay station on the final day of the Winter Games was caused by an explosive device. State and federal authorities are looking at whether explosives wrapped in railroad spikes hurled shrapnel upward, shattering a circuit breaker. Railroad spikes were found at the substation near Salt Lake City International Airport, but officials have not settled the question of whether the explosion was a result of faulty equipment, vandalism or terrorism, The Salt Lake Tribune has learned. Material taken from the scene ...

A triple gold medallist who was kicked out of the Winter Olympics for failing a drugs test claims he is being told what to do by aliens. Cross-country skier Johann Muehlegg said the mysterious beings have had a profound effect on his life. "I have seen them," he declared, before insisting he had not taken any drugs. German-born Muehlegg, 31, defected to Spain in 1999 - apparently on the instructions of the aliens. He said: "I was contacted and told what to do by people from the other side. "You might think it's funny but it has paid off. I'm ...

Flesh, robots and God Are they becoming us or are we becoming them? One of the world's leading roboticists discusses the machines in our future -- their ability to think, feel, reproduce and achieve personhood. - - - - - - - - - - - - Salon Magazine - By John Glassie Feb. 25, 2002 | Rodney Brooks built his first artificially intelligent machine when he was just 12 years old, in his boyhood home in South Australia. He recalls in his new book, "Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us," that this homemade computer of his "could ...

Tuesday, February 26, 2002 School marks Mexican Flag Day Consul general presents pupils with banner By Elia Gonzalez The Californian For the first time in Salinas, the Mexican consul general from San Jose, Marco Antonio Alcázar, celebrated Mexican Flag Day at Bardin Elementary School on Monday. "This is exciting because there are many children in this city, who were born in United States, whose parents are Mexicans," Alcázar said. "And these children have the opportunity now to enjoy two different nationalities and be proudly American and proudly Mexican." Thanks to a law enacted in March 1998, all U.S.-born children of ...

FUTURE SOLDIERS Concept design teams were composed of futurists, systems engineers, biologists, military experts, human factors specialists, writers and others of diverse backgrounds. The teams met late last year and submitted a proposed plan of attack to the Army in December. Innovative technologies would allow a soldier to engage and destroy the enemy at longer ranges with greater precision and with devastating results, Fisher said. Technologies that would make that possible include better communications devices, advanced situational awareness software, chem-bio detection and protection, advanced weapons, and protective equipment. Fatigues and the flak jacket of the past, for example, would be ...

WHO OWNS YOUR DNA? Why are all Mormons ready to share their DNA for testing according to this WIRED MAGAZINE article: A doctor in Utah believes women have been ignored in health care and intends to use the DNA of the Mormon population to develop therapies for women. Dr. Kenneth Ward hopes to use Mormon DNA, medical records and genealogy to address complications associated with pregnancy, as well as problems such as infertility, birth defects and gynecological cancers. His effort to use genetic information from a specific community might sound familiar. Decode Genetics of Reykjavik, Iceland, launched a similar effort ...

I left the theatre ranting and raving. Nothing new if you've read my posts here before but quite embarassing if you're married to me and we're in the supermarket. One year, the left-wing radicals give a movie about pedophilia called "American Beauty" and it walks away with all the gold. Now, we're told a little thorazine and you too can become a Nobel Prize winning successful professor, respected by your fellow ivy league professors. A few shock treatments? I thought they said spa treatments. Why not, if it worked for John Nash, it can work for me. .. How cool ...

"60 Minutes," which is readying its probe of Enron, will unveil another investigation Sunday, "The Selling of the Olympics." As it happened in Nagano, so has it happened in Salt Lake City, "under the table," says Don Hewitt.

DO leave shoes outside mosques! DON'T wear shorts in mosques! DON'T swear in public! DON'T be too familiar with women! These are the key charms our military forces are training in at the Philipines, to avoid the risk of offending locals. The region in which the soldiers are operating is mainly Muslim, though the Philippines as a whole is mainly Christian. The lessons are intended to avoid friction with the public. The soldiers have been told to be especially sensitive towards women - to refrain from bad language and flirting. Public displays of affection are definitely out. "This may offend ...

LA Times 2/20/02 : Study Finds Utah Residents Use Twice As Many Antidepressant drugs as any other state. Antidepressant drugs are prescribed in Utah more often than in any other state, at a rate nearly twice the national average. Utah's high usage was cited by one of the study's authors as the most surprising finding to emerge from the data. The study was released last summer and updated in January. Other states with high antidepressant use were Maine and Oregon. Utah's rate of antidepressant use was twice the rate of California and nearly three times the rates in New York ...

Being A Mom! To Mothers, Daughters, Aunts, Grandmothers, Girlfriends... We are sitting at lunch when my daughter casually mentions that she and her husband are thinking of "starting a family." "We're taking a survey," she says, half-joking. "Do you think I should have a baby?" "It will change your life," I say, carefully keeping my tone neutral. "I know," she says, "no more sleeping in on weekends, no more spontaneous vacations...." But that is not what I meant at all. I look at my daughter, trying to decide what to tell her. I want her to know what she will ...

Subject: Politically correct-speak HOW TO SPEAK ABOUT WOMEN AND BE POLITICALLY CORRECT: 1. She is not a BABE or a CHICK - She is a BREASTED AMERICAN. 2. She is not a SCREAMER or MOANER - She is VOCALLY APPRECIATIVE. 3. She is not EASY - She is HORIZONTALLY ACCESSIBLE. 4. She is not DUMB - She is a DETOUR OFF THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY. 5. She has not BEEN AROUND - She is a PREVIOUSLY ENJOYED COMPANION. 6. She is not an AIRHEAD - She is REALITY IMPAIRED. 7. She does not get DRUNK or TIPSY - She gets CHEMICALLY ...

Help! I'm researching terrorism and fear for a thesis and have been most disillusioned with existing search engine searches. What resources do you recommend other than the usual: Yahoo, Google, Lexis-Nexus cliches?

Was the Homeland Security Office created to eliminate the FBI? Could it be someone in the executive office, doesn't trust the good ole Muldars and Sculleys and decided instead to replace the whole gang with a new bunch? Read the executive order yourself and decide. Under Secretary Tom Ridge, the new Office of Homeland Security was created by President Bush shortly after the devastating Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. According to the presidential Executive Order creating it, the mission of the Office of Homeland Security is "to develop and coordinate the implementation of a comprehensive national strategy to secure the ...

Dateline: 12/01/00 Tom Green has appeared on the Dateline NBC, Judge Judy and Jerry Springer shows as a poster child for his cause. No, not the comedian Tom Green that is actress Drew Barrymore's near-husband, but the Utah husband to five wives and father of 28 children who has made himself the poster child of polygamy. Mr. Green now faces trial in January on four counts of bigamy (having more than one wife at the same time) and one count of criminal nonsupport, plus one count of child rape for having sex with one of his current wives when she ...

Thousands of hotel beds unsold as Olympic countdown begins Winter Olympics organisers say thousands of hotel beds and hundreds of tickets remain unsold. More than 120,000 hotel beds are still available in Salt Lake City where the games are taking place while tickets are still available for many of the events. But winter sports fans have been warned that the £220 million security effort will mean they can expect to shiver for hours in sub-zero temperatures as they queue to be searched and will only be able to take in two events in any one day. Organisers estimate it will ...

Speaking of tracking down the source of anthrax, did anyone else wonder what will happen to those nose swabs from our congressmen/women and Supreme Court justices? A year ago I read about a company in Texas who offered to save your family's DNA in a cryogenic locker for posterity. You submitted your DNA sample with a simple nasal or inner cheek swab..... Hillary and Bill collected the FBI written records about our legislators, could G.W. be taking the intelligence gathering one step further? If those DNA sample swabs will be kept. What will they be kept for? Will we now ...