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My mother has been advised to have a bone scan performed? What is this procedure for, and is it painful? She's been having leg and back pain which her GP said was sciatica. Her oncologist listened to her symptoms and said that it didn't sound like sciatica, and she should get a bone scan.
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hi all, Ive applied for the class of 93 at quite a number of schools (20) and have gotten 13 rejects, 4 interviews and 3 no responses. Any one know when the heck these people send out their acceptance letters? According to the med school admissions book theyre supposed to send out the number of their class in acceptanc...
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Has anyone ported RIPEM to the Amiga yet or is anyone working on it? Emailed responses are fine.
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Hi everybody! Does anyone know of companies that are currently manufacturing encryption chips for sale to the general public? Get them while you can! Some pointers would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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The SEI. Software Engineering Institute, a DoD funded part of Carnegie Mellon University. You can read about part of it in Ed Yourdon's The Decline and Fall of the American Programmer (Yourdon Press). Just passing thru.....
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Does anyone know of any studies done on the long-term health effects of a man's vasectomy on his female partner? I've seen plenty of study results about vasectomy's effects on men's health, but what about women? For example, might the wife of a vasectomized man become more at risk for, say, cervical cancer? Adverse...
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I can't see the need for a single (big? expensive? heavy?) "mothership" except for Voyager style flyby missions. A few years ago, I did some calculations on a "Grand Tour" space probe launched by a Saturn V in 1975-76. At the time,I felt that the idea of a big "mother ship" had some merit - the Voyagers had to be ra...
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I am looking for some clarification on a subject that I am trying to find some information on. How is HSV-2 (Herpes) transmitted? I currently know that it can be transmitted during inflammation but, what I am looking for is if it can be transmitted during in other periods. Also, I want to know if you can be accurat...
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Yeah, but who wants to start a pool on the first person arrested mistakenly and has their life turned upside-down because some law enforcement agency *does* make a chip::person association? I wonder if there are any plans to keep these records (e.g. encode the serial number into the UPC scanned at K-Mart along with t...
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Jonathan, interesting questions. Some wonder whether or not the moon could have ever supported an atmosphere. I'd be interested in knowing what our geology/environmental sciences friends think. As for human tolerances, the best example of human endurance in terms of altitude (i.e. low atmospheric pressure and lower...
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You would be arrested as an international arms trafficker.
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The principle underlying these devices is a well establish principle in psychology called 'entrainment,' whereby external sensory stimuli influence gross electrical patterns of brain function. They are 'experimental' in that people experiment with them and they are _not_ widely (if at all) used in medicine for therap...
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: In article <1993Apr29.121501@is.morgan.com>, jlieb@is.morgan.com (Jerry Liebelson) writes... : > I want to know what weightlessness actually FEELS like. For example, is : >there a constant sensation of falling? Ron Baalke (baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov) replied: : Yes, weightlessness does feel like falling. It may fe...
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Steve> Hmmm... given the error corrections in modern audio CDs, is Steve> it sufficient to simply instruct your agent to decrypt using Steve> the bit stream from the second cut of the latest Garth Brooks Steve> CD, or are the usual number of bit errors found acceptable in Steve> commercial CDs because of that error ...
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Hello! I need a technique for separation of polymorphonuclear neutrophils (PMN) from the peripheral blood of mice. Because of the low PMN:Lymphocyte ratio (approx. 20:80) it«s not just as easy as the corresponding technique used with human blood. Yours, ...
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Tom Clancy omitted these key steps to try to prevent groups of people from building a nuclear bomb. However, he asserts that you can find these key steps in any university library. The main point of _Five Minutes To Midnight_ is that it is impossible to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons, since it has becom...
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It was implied in the first technical posting by Dorothy Denning that the FBI would do the decryption *for* the law enforcement agencies. It wasn't clear to me from the post whether this would be done in realtime or not, or whether the FBI would just decrypt the session keys for the locals, or would do the whole ...
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I remember as a kid visiting my relatives on Kauai, and one of the things that really frightened me was centipedes. I'd been told they were poisonous and infrequently one would pop up and scare the heck out of me. Once one came out of the vacuum cleaner and it seemed like it was at least a foot long and moving at 35 ...
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: : BUT, to say you're an atheist is to suggest you have PROOF there is NO GOD. : To be a politically-correct skeptic, better to go with agnostic, like me! :) : As a self-proclaimed atheist my position is that I _believe_ that there is no god. I don't claim to have any proof. I interpret the agnostic position as h...
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Habital planets are also dependent on what kind of plant life can be grown.. and such.. Length of growing season (that is if you want something more than VAT food, argh, Id ratehr eat an MRE for along period of time). I know in Fairbanks (Furbanks to some) the winter can get to -60 or so F, but in the summer can get ...
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For some reasons we humans think that it is our place to control everything. I doubt that space advertising is any worse than any other kind advertising, but it will be a lot harder to escape, and is probably the most blatant example yet of our disregard for the fact that we are not in fact creaters of the universe. ...
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The Space Calendar is updated monthly and the latest copy is available at ames.arc.nasa.gov in the /pub/SPACE/FAQ. Please send any updates or corrections to Ron Baalke (baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov). Note that launch dates are subject to change. The following person made contributions to this month's calendar: ...
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[some deleted] One thing that seems ambiguous is whether a signal being echoed down from geosynchronous orbit is "...from outside the United States." Also, being able to assess whether NSA is playing by the rules requires knowing what the rules are. We only know a subset. For those even more suspicious, there could b...
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That was probably me. I meant only that nobody has overreacted yet. It seemed to me that Jerry was suggesting that people are currently overreacting, and I vehemently disagree. I see a lot of talk, but not much action. I see now that I misunderstood Jerry's position. Not this bunch. They'll just bitch on the Net...
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(Book Review): "THE UNIVERSE OF MOTION", by Dewey B. Larson, 1984, North Pacific Publishers, Portland, Oregon, 456 pages, indexed, hardcover. "THE UNIVERSE OF MOTION" contains FINAL SOLUTIONS to most ALL astrophysical mysteries...
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: WOULD WIRETAP CHIP BE COST-EFFECTIVE? : SUMMARY: Compared to an average monthly phone bill of sixty dollars, : wiretaps are only worth two cents a month to police. So the : proposed wiretap chip must raise phone costs by less than one part : in three thousand to be cost-effective. Robin's c...
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-*---- The millipede's around here (Austin) have no sting. Some of the centipedes do. The question Rebecca Snyder asks is much like asking "How venomous are snakes?" One either wants to ask "which snake?" or point to some reference on the many different species of snake. Similarly, there are many different species...
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I'm not sure if this will help you, but the (local) interstellar radiation field has been measured and modeled by various groups. If I remember things correctly, the models involved contributions from three different BB sources, so there's no obvious "temperature" of background radiation in our local area. However, t...
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Any rocky mountain spotted fever experts out there ? The doctor thinks a friend might have this. The question is, doesn't the tick have to bite you ? You frequently find a tick crawling on you after a walk in the woods around here, but you tend to notice it before it bites you; pulling one out of your skin is somethi...
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> Second question: Why!?!? Why is such a strange procedure used, and >not a real RNG ? This turns those S1,S2 in a kind of bottleneck for >system- security. >> The only theory that makes any sense is that S1 and S2 are >> either the same for all chips, or vary among very few >> possibilities, so that anyone try...
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Steve Bellovin writes a well-thought-out and nearly persuasive article about why the Clipper (are we still calling it Clipper today, or have they figured out a non-infringing word yet?) protocol is almost as good as one can do given their marching ordes. I'll accept the second assumption only for the sake of argument...
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Nonsense! I wasn't asked if Larry O'Brien should trust Nixon with his keys, but whether I would. David
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Well, I seem to have struck an interesting discussion off. Given that I am not an astrophysicist or nuclear physicist, i'll have to boil it down a bit. 1) ALl the data on bursts to date, shows a smooth random distribution. 2) that means they aren't concentrated in galactic cores, our or someone elses. 3) If ...
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I heard a short blurb on the news yesterday about an herb called feverfew (?) that some say is good for preventing migraines. I think the news said there were two double-blind studies that found this effective. Does anyone know about these studies? Or have experience with feverfew? I'm skeptical, but open to trying it...
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. . . David gives good explaination of the deductions from the isotropic, 'edged' distribution, to whit, they are either part of the Universe or part of the Oort cloud. Why couldn't they be Earth centred, with the edge occuring at the edge of the gravisphere? I know there isn't any mechanism for them, but there isn't ...
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Doing this in anything like reasonable time would require more propulsion capability than we can manage. You would have to boost to Pluto and then slow back down. You could do something like a Hohman orbit, but I think that would take ridiculous amounts of time (my Rubber Bible is at home). -- "Insisting on per...
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Only if he doesn't spend more than a billion dollars doing it, since the prize is not going to be scaled up to match the level of effort. You can spend a billion pretty quickly buying Titan launches. What's more, if you buy Titans, the prize money is your entire return on investment. If you develop a new launch sys...
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About two years ago I posted the following: I am planning to write a new book called "Great Canadian Scientists." Please forward your nominations to me: shell@cs.sfu.ca The rules are that the person must be a Canadian citizen. They don't have to be born in Canada or even live in Canada, but they must have (or have ...
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-| In article <1993Apr28.200843.83413@embl-heidelberg.de>, tuparev@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE (Georg Tuparev) writes... -| > -| > -| >ANNOUNCEMENT: The "HyperKnowledge" PROJECT for NeXTSTEP -| -| I know this is kinda off the subject of sci.space, but not really, I want to -| answer this for their, as well as everyone else's...
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Okay, the earth has a magnetic field (unless someone missed something?) Okay if you put a object in the earth magnetic field, it produces electricty.. Now the question. Can you use electricity to power a space/low earth orbit vehicle? and i fyou can, can you use the magnetic field of the earth to power it?? Can the i...
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Gentlefolk, It seems to me that the "Step 1" of taking a warrant to the telco to get a wiretap is so much stinky red herring (don't you love animal metaphors). With each phone broadcasting the serial number of its chip ("E(N;F)" is not syntactically different than "N"), all the...
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I did. You're mistaken. NSA's communications intelligence mission is strictly against foreign governments. Here's an excerpt from the enabling charter (24 Oct 52, Truman) that should clarify this. The charter was declassified in about Feb 1990 when an FOIA request made it public. Mind you, I don't know that they ...
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From: "Phil G. Fraering" <pgf@srl03.cacs.usl.edu> >> Finally: this isn't the Bronze Age, [..] >> please try to remember that there are more human activities than >> those practiced by the Warrior Caste, the Farming Caste, and the >> Priesthood. F Baube responds; Right, the Profiting Caste is blessed by God,...
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Nonsense. Mike, in Heinlein's "Moon is a Harsh Mistress" decides that a weapon is some mechanism which allows you to deliver energy at a distance. (I don't have the book handy or I'd find the exact quote). Guns do that. Cryptosystems do not.
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Harvested to order?
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The following program is a very quick hack I created a few months ago to determine whether a Sun Sparcstation IPC could perform real-time, full-duplex encrypted audio with resulting data rates sustainable by today's modems. This test program reads linearly-encoded audio from the audio device, compresses it with GSM ...
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Is HST really _that_ much heavier than a Spacelab ??? bd
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A while ago there was a reference to a paper on a crypto file system (CFS) given by someone at at AT&T (?). How can I get a copy? Is it available on the net? Was it published? Who was the author? Thanks
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Recently I've come upon a body of literature which promotes colon cleansing as a vital aid to preventive medicine through nutrition. In particular, Dr. Bernard Jenssen in his book "Colon Cleansing for Health and Longevity" -- the title actually escapes me, but it is very similar to that -- claims that regular self-adm...
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I may be misreading you here. Are you saying the American Revolution wasn't a good idea because it was bad odds? I kind of doubt that any revolution, armed or otherwise, was ever started without vast amounts of failed "working within a system". A good sign of a system being not worth preserving would probably be...
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The bacteria in your gut are important. But colonic flushes are not the way to improve gut function. Each person has almost a unique mix of bacteria in his/her gut. Diet affects this mix as does the use of antibiotics. A diet change is a much better way to alter the players in your gut than is colonic flushes....
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Need Diet for Diverticular Disease and ideas for gastrointestinal distress
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On the contrary, the entire Clipper proposal is an example of the government servicing the people (in the sense of the term found in the sentence, "The farmer paid $100 to rent a bull to service his cows.")
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Perhaps I should quit eating mushrooms, soya beans, and brie cheese which all have MSG in them. It occurs naturally. I'm not going to quit eating something that I like just because it *might* cause me trouble later or causes problems in *some* people. I would much rather avoid stress by not worrying over what goes ...
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True.. but what about showing the missing part of a leaf? Is this "corona discharge"?
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My wife had hives during the first two months of her pregnancy. My son (3 months old), breast-fed, now has the same symptoms. She has been to a skin-specialist, but he has merely prescribed various medicines (one each visit as though by trial and error :-)) Anti-histamines worked on both of them, but looks like beco...
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Sure there are quacks. There are quacks who don't treat and quacks who treat. One's that refuse to diagnose and ones that diagnose improperly. There are lucky quacks and unlucky quacks. Smart quacks and dumb ones. There are people ahead of their time, with unprobable or unproven theories and rationals. There are ...
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This one is easy, they 'tape' the conversation, call the FBI or Secret Service. You see "activities against the Satan Clinton" could be construed as a threat against the President of the United States. I am sure they(NSA,FBI,SS,...,...) have enough judges in their collective pockets to have a warrent before t...
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Bear in mind that a lot of the Vandenberg launch traffic is military and at least semi-secret. They aren't interested in publicizing it beforehand.
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Mark, this is the most reasonable post that I've seen in Sci. Med. on the topic of Colonic Flushing. I'm in a profession that uses manipulation(a very refined form of massage) to treat various human diseases. Proving that manipulation works has been extremely difficult(as the MD's delight in pointing out). The ...
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Have the feds shut down the people making Sound Blaster? What about Apple and NeXT? Apple, NeXT, Sun, and others make systems that can handle CD-quality audio in and out, and can perform arbitrary transformation on it in the process of transmitting it across a network or modem. Perhaps there's a market for a portab...
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I haven't seen any mention of this in a while, so here goes... When the Hubble Telescope was first deployed, one of its high gain antennas was not able to be moved across its full range of motion. It was suspected that it had been snagged on a cable or something. Operational procedures were modified to work around t...
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Nowadays, usually with a computer. No theory predicted the numeric discoveries listed above. No one can yet write an algorithm that will predict the precise behavior of any of these at any precise level of their evolution. So it remains for experimenters to gather data on their behavior. Gary
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I didn't want to quote all the stuff that's been said recently, I just wanted to add a point. The whole question of "a right to a dark sky" revolves around the definition of a right. Moral rights and natural rights are all well and good, but as far as I can see, a right is whatever you or someone representing you ...
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Back in January and February there were several articles (Wash Post, Time...) saying that NASA was "considering" the option just as it is now "considering" a followup mission 6-12 months after the servicing mission. However, the down time was estimated to be a year+ (servicing, checkout, sceheduling and training anot...
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You need to use your shoulder muscles to push the mower. If you haven't been doing much exercise, as I suppose you haven't, then a constant 20 minute long effort can cause stiffness and cramps.
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I tried Prozac a few months ago, and had some insomnia from it, but no anxiety or jitters. I probably could have lived with the insomnia if the Prozac had done any good, but it only provided a tiny benefit. Maybe because the person who prescribed it didn't know much and gave up after a 20mg dose didn't work. Now I...
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: : : : Hello, : : Just one quick question: : : My father has had a back problem for a long time and doctors : : have diagnosed an operation is needed. Since he lives down in : : Mexico, he wants to know if there is a hospital anywhere in : : the United States particu...
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No, if you put a conductor in a changing magnetic field, it produces a voltage. The two ways you can do that with a permanent magnet is to move the magnet or move the conductor. The slow shifting of the Earth's magnetic field isn't really significant, especially when you consider how weak the Earth's magnetic field i...
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Oh? What about the precedent in which nuclear weapons information was published in "The Progressive"? I was under the impression that the court held that prior restraint could NOT be used. Any lawyers out there? -- Perry Metzger pmetzger@shearson.com
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As Herny pointed out, you have to develop the thruster. Also, while much lighter, you still have to lift the mass of the thruster to orbit, and then the thruster lifts its own weight into a higher orbit. And you take up room in the payload bay.
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nobody@alumni.cco.caltech.edu correctly states Jerry Berman's 1985 view on privacy, but he mistakenly assumes that this represents Berman's 1993 view as EFF Executive Director. As one of the people who convinced Jerry that legal protections for privacy are insufficient, and that technical measures, especially public k...
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Not useful unless you've got some truly wonderful propulsion system for the mother ship that can't be applied to the probes. Otherwise it's better to simply launch the probes independently. The outer planets are scattered widely across a two-dimensional solar system, and going to one is seldom helpful in going to th...
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I speculate, from the MykoTronx data sheet on the MYK-78, that the algorithm is a classified cryptosystem, similar in application to DES but cleared by the NSA for classified traffic, that has been in use for a number of years. Myktotronx refers to it as "Government Type II encryption", which matches the designat...
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And from whence does this right stem, that it overrides the 'rights' of the rest of us? And if you want to view that television station, you have to watch the commercials. You can't turn them off and still be viewing the television station. In other words, if you don't like what you see, don't look. There is no ...
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Apologies... Your mail is probably in the pile that arrived just before I got sick about a month ago... A reply will appear eventually... So far, there have been none (unless you count an interview in The Amateur Computerist about the history of netnews, which may be disqualified because TAC's budget doesn't run t...
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It just received FDA approval a few months ago. I have a prescription which I haven't had to use yet. I believe the company [Glaxol] is developing an oral form. At this stage, one must inject the drug into one's muscle. The doctor said that within 30 minutes, the migraine is gone for good!
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Ha! Watch me. It flies. It lands. It gets rebuilt. That's not what they told us back in the '70's. 1. It isn't a logical follow-on. A logical follow-on would have been either a Russian "snowfox" type thingey (for the lifting bodies) or something like MMI's Space Van (or Boeing's TSTO, or the airbreathing TSTO ...
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I'd hardly call the current Pluto Fast Flyby proposal "too large" (if the new technology insertion currently taking place succeeds, the S/C mass will drop to 110-120 kg) or "too expensive" ($400 million [FY92 $] for two S/C), especially when compared to other NASA planetary missions. This proposal would work only if...
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Organization: Temple University X-Newsreader: NNR/VM S_1.3.2 Last week I went to see a gastroenterologist. I had never met this doctor before, and she did not know what I was there for. As soon as I arrived, somebody showed me to an examining room and handed me a gown. They told me to undress (from the waist down, to ...
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I'll tell you all that I know about chromium. But before I do, I want to get a few things off my chest. I just got blasted in e-mail for my kidney stone posts. Kidney stones are primarily caused by diet, as is heart disease and cancer. When I give dietary advise, it is not intended to encourage people reading ...
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I originally posted this to alt.suicide.holiday but it was recommended that I try you guys instead: My friend insists that Ny-Quil can be deadly if enough is taken -- he suggested something like 20-30 of the Night-time gelcaps would do someone in. Being a NORMAL user of Ny-Quil :), I checked the 'ingredients' and hav...
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There is an office on the middle left US coast on Middlefield Road in Menlo Park, CA (415) 329-4390
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Next GPS launch is scheduled for June 24th.
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Gasp! I've just spent 3 hours catching up on sci.crypt here (slow reader I guess) and I really have to put out a few comments too. First, let me flame the famous Dave S. : He's obviously only 10 years old. Cut him some slack. :^} The joke about Clinton/crypto/drugs slammed me thr...
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- [...] [...] As far as I can see, no matter how the session keys are generated (be it Diffie-Hellman or whatever), any Cripple conversation which travels in whole or in part over a land-line is vulnerable to this scheme. Law- enforcement agencies can do it legally at the telco, o...
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Do I assume correctly from the above aricle that your mother has a historyy of cancer? I was just wondeing, since you mentioned thhat she has an oncologist. A bone scan is a nuclear scan. Thperson receivving the scan is gven a dose of a radioactive tracer, and an imaging device is used to track the distribution of ...
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I cured mine with Bag Balm which I bought at the local farm supply store. It is relatively cheap and works in a few days. The product was developed to treat sore udders.
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a yes, but the improvement in boost orbit to the HST is Significant, and that means you can then carry EDO packs and enough consumables so the SHuttle mission can go on long enough to also fix the array tilt motors, and god knows what else is going to wear out on the HST in the next 9 months.
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As I read the current wiretap law, it would not be legal now. On the other hand, assuming a legislative change, recording but not decrypting Clipper conversations would probably be found constitutional by the Supreme Court, using the same reasoning (or the lack thereof...) by which they permit random roadblocks to ch...
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: What if clipper is fairly secure but leaves a distinct clipper signature... : that is, what if it's not too difficult to tell that a msg. was clipper : encrypted, even if you can't tell the contents? In that case, anyone : who is trying to hide behind anther encryption scheme will stand out : from all of the other ...
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I found the personal attacks on Prof. Denning pretty disgusting. I don't agree with all her positions; but I think scholars can disagree without the argument getting into the gutter. If these personal attacks are what stopped Prof. Denning from replying on issues of substance, they have cause real harm to the serious...
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Hello, All! I apologize, I haven't published my astro FTP list since March. Now I haven't tested all the sites included into the list. I would notified all the people, you have stored some older issues of my, there are now lots of changes. Many sites have gone away: They either do not exist any more or all...
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