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| ISSUE # 124, March 22nd 1993 . . (c)1993 EPC, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED * |
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| Little Known Facts...........Page 4 Dimensions In The Dark (10)..Page 27 |
| HeadLine BITS!...............Page 5 Poetry -*- Drawer............Page 33 |
| Quotes N Notes...............Page 6 I MYTHed That One!...........Page 36 |
| Behind The HeadLines.........Page 7 Mind Games...................Page 37 |
| Phrase Craze.................Page 8 Never Ask Your Guy...!.......Page 38 |
| Historical Facts.............Page 12 Team Eeeek!..................Page 45 |
| Laws Beyond Murphy...........Page 13 Not Common...................Page 51 |
| Boardwatch Top 100...........Page 14 Great 1 Liners!..............Page 52 |
| Reader survey - PLEASE HELP!.Page 22 Strrrrrrrange BITS!..........Page 56 |
| I Just HATE It When...!......Page 25 The W-Eeeek-ly News..........Page 59 |
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| Little Known Facts! |
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| * The word Monday comes from Moon's Day, from the Latin Dies Lunae |
| * Sunday comes from the Saxon's Sun's Day, Latin Dies Solis |
| * Tuesday from Tiw's Day, Tiw meaning Mars, Latin Dies Martis |
| * Wednesday comes from Woden's Day, related to the Roman god Mercury, Latin|
| Dies Mercurii |
| * Thursday comes from Thor's Day, Thor is the Saxon equivalent of Jupiter, |
| Dies Jovis in Latin |
| * Friday comes from Frigg's Day, Frigg is the Saxon counterpart of the |
| Roman goddess Venus, in Latin Dies Veneris |
| * Saturday in Latin is Dies Saturni, comes from Seterne's Day. |
| * January was named after a two faced Roman god named Janus, the phrase |
| means to look at both the past and future simultaneously. |
| * February is named after a Roman feat of purification called Februa. |
| * March is named after Mars, the god of war, marking the opening of spring.|
| * April comes from the Latin word aperire which refers to open, persum- |
| ably referencing buds in spring. |
| * May comes from the goddess Maia who was the goddess of growth of plants. |
| * June from the goddess Juno which is Latin for youth. |
| * July is named for Julius Caesar, the month he was born. |
| * August so named for the first Roman emperor Augustus. |
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| HeadLine BITS! |
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| * Old one: Miniskirts To Go Higher; End Not Yet In Sight |
| * Pants Coming Down Again |
| * Broadcasters To Look Into Plunging Gowns |
| * More Nylon Underwear Being Seen Nowadays |
| * Rubber Situation Has Hit Bottom, Woman Complains |
| * Four In One Gown Rock Resort |
| * Women Will Wear Same Old Things In Bras This Year |
| * Bare Feet And Tinted Tonsils Latest With Sandals |
| * Used Girls To Pass Worthless Checks |
| * Brunettes Bouncing Cheeks In North Dade Area |
| * Brave Thief "Cops" Policeman's Trousers While He Walks Beat |
| * Two Banks Robbed And One Killed By Nashville Bandits |
| * Store Owner Shoots Prowler Before Breakfast |
| * Dead Robber Brings $5,000 To His Slayer |
| * Robber Cracks Victims Skull Gets No Loot |
| * Car Listed As Stolen By Atlanta Police Department |
| * 2 Housewives Turn In Arms |
| * Death Calls Real Estate Man Here |
| * Michigan Man Dies; Baked For Queen |
| * Unidentified Torso May Attend Rites For Julia Marlowe |
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| | "Success isn't permanent & failure isn't fatal." MIKE DITKA |# |
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| | "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar..." SIGMUND FREUD |# |
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| | "In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular." KATHLEEN NORRIS|# |
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| | "Do TV evangelists do more than Lay People?" STANLEY RALPH ROSS |# |
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| | "Humankind cannot bear very much reality." T.S.ELIOT |# |
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| Behind The HeadLines! |
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| HeadLine: A Grape In The Mouth |
| Story: A man, after 70 tries, finally caught a grape in his mouth. The |
| grape was thrown from a sixty story building. After falling 788 |
| feet at a speed of 110 miles an hour the man caught the grape and |
| broke the old record of 660 feet set in Tokyo in 1986. |
| |
| HeadLine: Flushing Money Down The Drain |
| Story: School administrators were shocked when they received their water |
| bill for the month. It was nearly $8,000. The school decided the |
| cause of such a bill was due to a malfunctioning toilet that flush-|
| ed nonstop for more than three weeks. |
| |
| HeadLine: Gym Teacher Arrested |
| Story: Once chosen Teacher-of-the-Year, the gym teacher was arrested when |
| he encouraged teenage girls to dance topless. The male teacher |
| instructed five 17 year old girls to take off their tops and dance |
| around for him. He walked around the room watching and judging |
| their performance. One girl took exception to the activity and |
| reported it. The teacher was then arrested. He stated he found |
| nothing wrong with his performance. |
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| Phrase Craze! |
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| * Clip joint: any place where the customer is taken advantage of through |
| overcharges. In the old days the coins were made of gold, silver and |
| other soft metals. A shrewd person would collect the soft metal coins and|
| clip them down so he could turn them in for newly minted coins. There |
| were actual places of business that did just that to make their income. |
| Those places were called clip joints. When the advent of milled edges |
| on coins came about as well as printed bills, the clip joints were out |
| of business. But many of them merely changed their tactics and began |
| clipping their customers instead. |
| * Diddly-squat: to not care or not know anything about a subject. The |
| term actually comes to us from the carnival business. Diddle-e-squat |
| was the term given money by the carnival people, who had developed their |
| language so they could attract customers. The term came to mean a very |
| little amount of money and today it is applied to many things, especially|
| knowledge. |
| * Loophole: to find a way out of a contract or agreement. Back in the |
| Middle Ages when castles were built, designed into them was a room called|
| a loophole. It was in this room that the crossbow was housed. The room |
| was built with a narrow window then got wider to the back wall. It was |
| so designed so the crossbow operator would miss being hit by the longbow.|
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| * Frank Harrington, a solider who was involved in the Cheyenne Indian |
| attack where 50 calvary men and 500 Indians fought was shot in the |
| forehead with an arrow. The arrow did not kill him. But Mr. Harrington |
| was not able to pull the arrow out so he continued his battle. A shot |
| from a rifle graced his forehead, knocking the arrow out, and Mr. Harr- |
| ington survived. |
| * George Armstrong Custer finished last in his graduating class at West |
| Point. Perhaps this explains the Little Big Horn. |
| * Another Liberty Bell, called the Columbia Liberty Bell, in 1893 dis- |
| appeared completely. The bell weighed 13,000 pounds, stood 7 feet tall |
| and was placed on exhibition by the Daughters of the American Revolu- |
| tion for the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. No trace of the bell has |
| ever surfaced. |
| * The 25th Infantry was a rare and unusual group of men who managed to |
| bring order to Cuba after the Spanish-American war in 1898. This infan- |
| try was sent to Cuba due to an outbreak of riots, the men already there |
| were all suffering from either malaria or yellow fever. The infantry |
| went into to Cuba, never used their weapons once but brought order to the|
| cities. The 25th Infantry were bicycle riding soldiers, all were black |
| and were made up of 100 men only. |
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| Laws Beyond Murphy! |
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| * Commercials will always lie to you, after all, they are trying to sell |
| you their product. |
| * There is always a reason for everything. There may never be an explana- |
| tion, but always a reason. |
| * We don't know the whole plan. If we did, we would never be surprised. |
| * If you work hard enough, any event can be made to appear mysterious. |
| * God doesn't let us know the whole plan probably because He hears enough |
| complaints already. |
| * One's word should be as good as a piece of paper. |
| * If someone flakes out on you, chances are they will lie to you as to why |
| they flaked out in the first place. |
| * Everything, no matter what, has a defense. |
| * Stupidity is not a good defense. |
| * Nothing is a sure thing. |
| * Winning in court is a matter of law, luck and a good judge. |
| * I say a lot of things but how much they are worth depends on who is |
| listening. |
| * Most keyboards never learn to spell. |
| * Typing by looking for each key is called the seek and you shall find |
| method of typing. |
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| Boardwatch 100 Reader's Choice Bulletin Board Contest |
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| B O A R D W A T C H M A G A Z I N E Announces: |
| The Boardwatch 100 Reader's Choice Bulletin Board Contest for 1993 |
| |
| WIN A FREE HIGH SPEED MODEM |
| Boardwatch Magazine is sponsoring a contest to find the 100 most popular |
| bulletin board systems in North America - and the ONE BBS most popular |
| among callers. The contest will run from January 1, 1993 through July 1, |
| 1993. Winners will be announced at the Online Networking Exposition and |
| BBS Convention (ONE BBSCON) held at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado |
| Springs Colorado, August 25-29, 1993. The Boardwatch 100 list will be |
| published in subsequent issues of Boardwatch Magazine and distributed in |
| electronic form world-wide. |
| |
| PRIZES FOR BULLETIN BOARD OPERATORS |
| 1ST PRIZE: Air fare, hotel accommodations and registration at ONE BBSCON |
| for one is awarded to the system receiving the most votes. Additionally, |
| the system will receive a free full-page black and white advertisement in |
| Boardwatch Magazine for a period of three months. An award trophy will |
| be presented at the ONE BBSCON and a feature story on their BBS will |
| appear in a subsequent issue of the magazine.. |
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| Boardwatch 100 Reader's Choice Bulletin Board Contest |
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| TOP 10: The 10 most popular BBSes selected by the voters will each receive |
| an award trophy during a special presentation at the Online Networking |
| Exposition & BBS Convention (ONE BBSCON) August 25-29, 1993. Additionally, |
| a story describing their system will appear in Boardwatch Magazine, they |
| will be included in a special TOP TEN BBS listing in the magazine, & will |
| receive a free 1/4 page black & white advertisement in 3 successive issues.|
| Finally, they'll be listed in the Boardwatch 100 BBS list. |
| |
| TOP ONE HUNDRED: The 100 bulletin boards receiving the most votes will |
| each be listed in the Boardwatch 100 readers choice BBS list. This list |
| will be published in Boardwatch Magazine and freely distributed |
| electronically on thousands of bulletin boards world-wide. |
| |
| PRIZES FOR VOTERS: All valid ballots submitted by voters will be entered |
| in a random sweepstakes drawing. As of the opening date of this contest, |
| prizes include TWO U.S. ROBOTICS COURIER DUAL STANDARD 16.8K MODEMS, two |
| HAYES OPTIMA 14400 + FAX 144 modems, & two ZyXEL U-1496 14,400 bps modems |
| - & more are on the way. A minimum of six valid ballots will be selected |
| from all entries & each will receive a free modem - from the most popular |
| modem manufacturers in the world. |
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| RULES FOR CALLERS: Each voter can vote once, for a single bulletin board |
| system. Each ballot must be fully completed, & individually mailed by each |
| voter. One vote per address, & we will verify ballots as necessary. There |
| are three ways to vote: |
| |
| 1. Printout and complete this ballot and mail to: |
| BOARDWATCH MAGAZINE |
| READERS CHOICE BBS CONTEST |
| 5970 South Vivian Street |
| Littleton, CO 80127 |
| |
| 2. Print out, complete this ballot and FAX to (303)973-3731. |
| |
| 3. Or, dial the Boardwatch BBS at (303)973-4222 and complete the online |
| ballot provided on the main menu. |
| |
| Balloting closes at 23:59:59, June 30, 1993. |
| |
| This contest is not limited to Boardwatch Magazine subscribers, and no |
| purchase of any kind is required to participate in this contest. |
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| Boardwatch 100 Reader's Choice Bulletin Board Contest |
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| NOTE: We held this contest during 1992 and it generated 11,152 votes by |
| the close of balloting for some 1250 different BBSes. The TOP system |
| received about 450 votes. Your individual vote can have a tremendous |
| impact on the outcome of this contest. Further, the odds of winning a |
| modem in last years contest, were 1 in 1394 (8 modems awarded). |
| |
| RULES FOR BBS OPERATORS: Bulletin Board Operators may encourage callers |
| to vote for their system by offering whatever inducements/encouragements |
| they like. There is one rule to this contest for BBS operators. YOU MAY |
| NOT HANDLE ANY VOTE AFTER THE CALLER HAS COMPLETED THE BALLOT. YOU MAY NOT|
| HANDLE IT IN ANY WAY. |
| |
| You may provide callers with anything you like, including postage paid |
| envelopes, printed matter, solicitations, etc. But once they've completed |
| a ballot, if you touch, handle, or otherwise deal with the ballot in any |
| way, your BBS will be disqualified from the contest without appeal or |
| recourse. |
| |
| If you wish to post an electronic ballot on your BBS, you may post this |
| file IN ITS ENTIRETY. You may post any additional information you feel |
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| is appropriate, but this entire rules file must be available to all |
| callers. |
| |
| Despite the fact that this contest has a minimum of rules, this one rule |
| does cause problems each year. You cannot post online surveys or doors to |
| allow voters to vote online. This is vote handling. You cannot accept |
| ballots & mail or fax them in for callers. The rule of thumb is pretty |
| clear: You can provide anything you like TO callers to induce them to vote.|
| There is NOTHING you can accept FROM callers in any way pertaining to this |
| ballot at all. THEY must complete the ballot & forward it to us themselves.|
| |
| We actually received FEDEX packages on the final day of the contest last |
| year from BBS operators who claimed to have collected a hundred or so |
| votes. Infractions are dealt with quite economically - the BBS is |
| summarily disqualified without recourse or appeal. |
| |
| One new element introduced in the 1993 contest is date scoring. All |
| ballots received from 1 January 1993 through 30 June 1993 will receive a |
| date score based on the date of receipt. Date scores will range from 180 |
| for votes received 1 January down to 1 for votes received on June 30. |
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| Boardwatch 100 Reader's Choice Bulletin Board Contest |
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| These date stamp values are cummulative for each BBS and will be used to |
| eliminate ALL ties in the TOP 100. Since ties are quite common in this |
| contest, it pays to get your votes in early. |
| |
| This contest is open to all BBSes worldwide with the sole exception of the |
| Boardwatch Magazine BBS - which is ineligible. Commercial services such as |
| Prodigy, America Online, CompuServe, are considered to be networks and not |
| bulletin boards for the purposes of this contest. HOWEVER, individual |
| forums, roundtables, or special interest areas moderated by a specific |
| human SYSOP on those services & allowing callers to post messages in that |
| specific area ARE considered to be bulletin boards for the purposes of this|
| contest and may participate. |
| |
| BOARDWATCH MAGAZINE |
| 5970 South Vivian Street |
| Littleton, CO 80127 |
| FAX: (303)973-3731. |
| BBS: (303)973-4222 |
| |
| Balloting closes at 23:59:59, June 30, 1993. |
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| BOARDWATCH 100 READERS CHOICE BBS CONTEST 1993 BALLOT FORM|
| Because Eeeeks is 24 lines per page, ballot form continues next page... |
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| Mail to: BOARDWATCH MAGAZINE READERS, CHOICE BBS CONTEST |
| 5970 S Vivian St Littleton, CO 80127 |
| BBS INFORMATION: |
| TITLE OF BBS YOU NOMINATE AS BEST BBS:____________________________________ |
| PRIMARY BBS ACCESS TELEPHONE NUMBER: ____________________________________ |
| |
| VOTER VERIFICATION INFORMATION: Voter information will be used to verify a |
| selected sampling of caller ballots. Responses to certain questions will be|
| used to produce aggregate statistical information on BBS callers to be |
| published in Boardwatch Magazine in future issues. All information required|
| Incomplete ballots will be discarded |
| |
| VOTER NAME: ______________________________________________________________ |
| STREET ADDRESS: __________________________________________________________ |
| CITY: _________________________________ STATE/PROVINCE: __________________ |
| ZIP OR POSTAL CODE: ___________________ COUNTRY: _________________________ |
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| DONTCHA JUST HATE IT WHEN...Submitted By: Da Vinci 190, Beyond Eternity |
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| Don't you just hate it when your wife makes you go into JC penneys |
| with her & you end up in the bra department while she goes into the |
| fitting room to try to fit a bra on & you're left alone in the bra |
| section & all the women look at you like you're a molester & you're |
| trying to look like you know how to act in the bra section & the sales |
| lady asks you if she can help you & you start to wonder if you look like |
| you NEED a bra so you buy a lifetime membership to a health club & try to |
| firm up those biceps triceps & such but you end up pulling a muscle in |
| your wrist trying to lift the same weight a petite woman set down in |
| front of you so you have to hold your wrist up to keep from passing out |
| in pain & that night your wife needs to return her bra because the |
| torpedo ballast straps were installed backwards & were recalled to |
| prevent injury at high speeds & you're left alone in the bra section |
| again but this time other women have left their husbands there too & by |
| the time you realize the way you 're holding your wrist is bothering |
| their macho imagery they've already locked phasers on you as the new |
| member of the health club & they make jokes about dropping soap & snap |
| you with towels & chase you out of town & you have to live in a cardboard |
| box in an alley for the rest of your life? I do. |
| [ed: Thanks DV! And yeah - I just HATE it when that happens!!!! ;>] |
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| TN: Mother Of The Year Award goes to the woman who stopped at a rest area |
| in Newport TN so her kids could go to the bathroom. She took her |
| daughters to the ladies room and her 5 year old son went to the men's |
| room alone. Afterwards she piled the kids back in the car and headed |
| on. 70 miles later she stopped to get something to eat, only then |
| did she notice she'd left her son behind. [ed: SHEEEEEEESH!!] |
| |
| ??: New Virus...this one is called "The Barry Manilow Virus" It seems |
| this little bug infiltrates the computer and forces the machine to |
| endlessly play Manilow hits such as "Looks Like We Made It" and "I |
| Write The Songs." [ed: There are some SICK people out there...!] |
| |
| ??: A Stanford University Psychologist has written a book, "Men Are Not |
| Cost Effective." In the book she points out that most of the nation's|
| prisons (94% of the CA prisons) are filled with men. Her idea? She |
| thinks men should be taxed extra for tying up so much money in the |
| criminal justice system. [ed: Dang, PMS can be such a bitch...] |
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| KS: A couple was arrested for felony murder after the body of their 4 yr |
| old retarded son was found encased in cement on their back porch. |
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| |
| against, getting away from here by dawn. |
| |
| "It does not give us much time, does it?" |
| |
| "No," I said as I slouched down next to him. "I don't know what to try |
| next. I only tried this because of a hunch and something I remembered |
| seeing on television one time." |
| |
| Thomas laughed openly. "You saw this on television? You've got to be |
| kidding." |
| |
| "Well your here aren't you. So it did work, or at least for you it |
| did." |
| |
| "Yes, I guess your right," he said with a big smile on his face. Then |
| he glanced over at the body which lie on the floor next to him. His |
| smile faded from his lips, "It didn't work for him." |
| |
| "No, I know it didn't. It's my fault isn't it?" |
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| "No. No of course not. We asked them to wait. We asked them to let |
| me test it first. He just didn't listen. Pull the rope back through |
| the dimensional door, we don't want anyone else trying this." I did as |
| he instructed. |
| "Thomas," I said somewhat hesitantly. |
| |
| "Yes," he responded, looking into my eyes. |
| |
| "Thomas, you did not react at all when I told you about Anna visiting |
| me. Do you think I'm crazy or what?" |
| |
| "No, I don't think you crazy. I've had things like that happen to me." |
| |
| "Is this something you think is normal?" |
| |
| "Sure it's normal. People have these experiences every day. Some |
| people live their whole lives talking with spirits of people who have |
| passed over. Just because others don't have these experiences doesn't |
| mean they don't happen. Science denies these things happen because |
| they can not prove them. But it's sort of like the old philosophy |
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| test, 'prove you exist'. This task is almost impossible. Especially |
| when part of the test denies you the right to use any type of document. |
| Even then you can not prove your existence." |
| |
| "Have you had these experiences frequently?" |
| |
| "Frequently? Well, I would say often enough. Each time I go home to |
| visit my parents, I have to deal with my grandfather's spirit. He died |
| eleven years ago. The home my parents live in was my Granddad's, and |
| still is as far as he is concerned. I see him about the estate all the |
| time. He is always approaching my Dad and telling him about something |
| that isn't being done on the estate. Or something that is being done |
| but not properly. He confronted me the last time I visited because he |
| felt I had not properly cared for a horse I had taken out for brisk |
| ride. Granddad was and is, even after life, giving his opinion on |
| anything and everything. Especially if it regards the estate. I've |
| never minded. He was a good ole' boy and I rather liked him. Well, I |
| guess I loved him, still do for that matter. " |
| |
| We sat quietly for a few minutes. I could see his pain had eased. He |
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| was starting relax a little. |
| |
| "Tell me again what your friend told you about the dimensional realm." |
| Thomas said, breaking our agreed silence. |
| |
| "She said there are many planes of reality. And each plane of reality |
| is a dimensional existence. We transfer from one plane to another |
| without being fully aware of this activity. Somehow this |
| transformation took place with all of you through some power of the |
| being within the house on the hill." I did not tell Thomas who I |
| believed the power to be. This concept sounded outlandish enough |
| without introducing the thought of this entity being Hitler. |
| |
| "Okay. What else did she say. There must be something that will give |
| us a clue on how to confront this problem," Thomas said. His manner |
| was one of an analytical nature. Approaching the entire circumstance |
| from a more scientific attitude rather than an emotional attitude, |
| which I had approached it. He did not show any difficulty in accepting |
| the events I had told him with regards to Anna and the house. Quite |
| the contrary, he acted as if this were a common everyday occurrence. I |
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| did not question his acceptance any further. |
| |
| "One more thing she did say Thomas," I continued. "She said that one |
| person, who has enough power, whether it be positive or negative can |
| change or control the variable world of dimensional existence by |
| thoughts." |
| |
| "I see," he responded as if an idea just popped into his head. "Then |
| we should be able to effectively change the conceptualistic dimension |
| where the others are trapped." |
| |
| "You mean through our own thought powers. Perhaps the combining effort |
| of us all." |
| |
| "Right. Are you game to give it a go?", Thomas questioned. |
| |
| "Sure, it couldn't hurt. It just might work." |
| |
| "Good. It just might work, this from a lady that tested out a theory |
| of a television show," he laughed. I'll tell them what we are going to |
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| |
| attempt. I'll lay out the thought effort I want each of them to apply |
| their concentration to." He moved toward the invisible wall and called |
| down to Dr. Bentley and began explain- ing our theories of the events |
| and activities of the evening. He went on to tell them what he wanted |
| them to concentrate on was coming back to the dimension of their |
| current time. We heard some conversation from beyond the wall and then |
| silence. We did not know if this was an indication of acceptance and |
| an attempt to begin the joint concentration effort or not. |
| |
| "Most everyone here finds this unbelievable Thomas.", Dr. Bentley's |
| words finally cut through the silence. "They do not think this will |
| work." |
| |
| "Thomas", I prodded, "it won't work unless they believe. That is one |
| thing Anna said." |
| |
| At first he said nothing. He sighed, looked about the floor, almost as |
| if looking for something, though I knew he was contemplating the |
| dilemma before us. to be continued.... |
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| |
| A stabbing inside me so constant and sharp, |
| 'Tis mine own knife that wounds me you see, |
| For each time I hurt you I near kill myself, |
| You are such an immense part of me. |
| |
| Dry tears are the worst that a mere mortal weeps, |
| For nobody sees they are there, |
| When you don't see me crying you know pain is deep, |
| Though you may not believe that I care. |
| |
| I wish I were stronger or better somehow, |
| I would live to be all that you need, |
| But I barely get by every day that I wake, |
| I'm sorry I've caused you to bleed. |
| |
| This stabbing inside me is killing my soul, |
| 'Tis mine own knife that wounds me you see, |
| For each time I hurt you I should kill myself, |
| You're the only alive part of me. |
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| MYTH: How many times have we heard this phrase from our mom, "don't eat |
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| There are 5 things that women should never, ever ask a guy. |
| |
| 1 - "What are you thinking?" |
| 2 - "Do you love me?" |
| 3 - "Do I look fat?" |
| 4 - "Do you think she is prettier than me?" |
| 5 - "What would you do if I died?" |
| |
| What makes these questions so bad is that every one is guaranteed to |
| explode into a major argument and/or divorce if the man does not answer |
| properly, which is to say dishonestly. |
| |
| 1 - "What are you thinking?" |
| |
| The proper answer to this question, of course is, "I'm sorry if I've been |
| pensive, dear. I was just reflecting on what a warm, wonderful, caring, |
| thoughtful, intelligent, beautiful woman you are and what a lucky guy I |
| am to have met you." Obviously, this statement bears no resemblance |
| whatsoever to what the guy was really thinking at the time, which was |
| most likely one of five things: |
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| a - Baseball |
| b - Football |
| c - How fat you are |
| d - How much prettier she is than you |
| e - How he would spend the insurance money if you died |
| |
| 2 - "Do you love me?" |
| The correct answer to this question is, "Yes." For those guys who feel the |
| need to be elaborate, you may answer, "Yes, dear." Wrong answers include: |
| |
| a - I suppose so. |
| b - Would it make you feel better if I said yes? |
| c - That depends on what you mean by "love". |
| d - Does it matter? |
| e - Who, me? |
| |
| 3 - "Do I look fat?" |
| The correct male response to this question is to confidently and |
| emphatically state, "No, of course not" and then quickly leave the room. |
| Wrong answers include: |
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| a - I wouldn't call you fat, but I wouldn't call |
| you thin either. |
| b - Compared to what? |
| c - A little extra weight looks good on you. |
| d - I've seen fatter. |
| e - Could you repeat the question? I was thinking |
| about your insurance policy. |
| |
| 4 - "Do you think she's prettier than me?" |
| |
| The "she" in the question could be an ex-girlfriend, a passer-by you were |
| staring at or an actress in a movie you just saw. In any case, the correct |
| response is, "No, you are much prettier." Wrong answers include: |
| |
| a - Not prettier, just pretty in a different way. |
| b - I don't know how one goes about rating such things. |
| c - Yes, but I bet you have a better personality. |
| d - Only in the sense that she's younger and thinner. |
| e - Could you repeat the question? I was thinking about |
| your insurance policy. |
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| 5 - "What would you do if I died?" |
| Correct answer: "Dearest love, in the event of your untimely demise, life |
| would cease to have meaning for me and I would hurl myself under the front |
| tres of the first Domino's Pizza truck that came my way." This might be the|
| stupidest question of the lot, as is illustrated by the following exchange:|
| |
| WIFE: "What would you do if I died?" HUSBAND: "I'd be extremely upset." |
| WIFE: "Would you remarry?" HUSBAND: "Of course not dear" |
| WIFE: "Don't you like being married?" HUSBAND: "Of course I do" |
| WIFE: "Then why wouldn't you remarry?" HUSBAND: "OK I'd remarry." |
| WIFE: "You would?" looking hurt. HUSBAND: "Yes" |
| WIFE: "Would you sleep in our bed?" HUSBAND: "Well I suppose we would." |
| WIFE: "I see & would you let her wear my old clothes?" |
| HUSBAND: "I suppose, if she wanted to" |
| WIFE: "Really, and would you take down the pictures of me and replace |
| them with pictures of her?" |
| HUSBAND: "Yes. I think that would be the correct thing to do." |
| WIFE: "Is that so? I suppose you'd let her play with my golf clubs too." |
| HUSBAND: "Of course not, dear, She's left-handed..." |
| KABOOM. |
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| Team Eeeek serial: The Dawning of an Age "Little Black Box" |
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| Halfway up the face he found an outcropping and knew he was to step out |
| to the edge. The small area was carpeted in the same lush green grass |
| that covered the valley below. Carpenter dropped to his knees, brought |
| his left leg up and sat Indian fashion with one leg tucked underneath. |
| |
| Then he waited. |
| * |
| |
| During the long silent moments Carpenter watched the flow of nature as it |
| unfolded below. Game crossed the valley floor; eagles rode the air |
| currents above. A friendly breeze played with the tops of the tall grass |
| and the warm sun hung breathlessly in the sky. |
| |
| Yet something evil approached from the south and Carp realized he would |
| have to confront it. |
| |
| To prepare himself, he rose, stretched his arms to the heavens and prayed |
| aloud. The words that left his mouth were foreign to his ears but his |
| mind understood them; they were the opening lines of an ancient Indian |
| death song. |
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| Caught up in the rhythm of the chant, Carp began to stamp his feet; then |
| the melody came to him and he sung it with conviction for he believed he |
| was soon to die. |
| |
| The evil presence that he feared had entered the valley. Though he could |
| not see it, Carpenter knew exactly where it stood. He located the spot |
| with his eyes - there it was, just below him on the valley floor. |
| |
| He stretched his arms out to his sides, turned his face to the sun and |
| prayed for the last time. |
| |
| "Life was good; God was just Let me taste of this place, this time But a |
| moment longer. Let me take the memory of it Into the great circle of |
| eternity." |
| |
| A tear crawled out from under his eyelid, dropped to nourish the grass. |
| And Carpenter flung himself over the edge. |
| |
| It was an easy six hundred feet to the spot occupied by evil. |
| *** |
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| Carpenter opened his eyes and found himself in the middle of the Team |
| Eeeek offices, a bit distracted, but otherwise in contact with his |
| faculties. Strange visions washed away behind his eyes and he realized |
| that he had been on one of his "journeys," the kind of trance he had |
| experienced during the last few weeks. He glanced at his watch and found, |
| to no surprise, that hardly a minute or two had elapsed since he had |
| "left." He couldn't remember much about the dream or whatever it was - a |
| few fleeting images scurried into the darkened corners of his memory. |
| |
| The oddest part about these excursions was that he always returned from |
| them refreshed. It was as though he began with a great problem, went into |
| trance where somebody met him and instructed him on how to live his life. |
| Then he came out of trance feeling healthy and happy - not remembering |
| where he had been or what he had done but somehow holding the solution to |
| his original problem. |
| |
| He felt that way now - as though he had an answer to something. But what |
| was the question? |
| |
| Oh, yes. It came back to him now. |
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| The computer system; something was wrong with the computer system. |
| |
| Carpenter peered about the office, assuring himself that he was alone. He |
| felt watched, observed - but decided that it may have been the effect of |
| a guilty conscience. And yet he knew that someone was onto him; someone |
| must have discovered that he had been altering the company records. |
| |
| That was the reason the computer felt so funny. |
| |
| "Must be a bug on the line," he mumbled. |
| |
| Feeling the need for secrecy, Carpenter tiptoed through the office |
| inspecting each station on the loop. Nothing on Charity's unit; |
| Crunchie's was clean. |
| |
| Who could have gotten on to him? How did they find out? He had tripped no |
| security mechanism - he would have known if he had, having designed and |
| installed the hardware himself. But SOMETHING was amiss. |
| |
| Stella's station checked out; Bombay's was clear. |
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| Carpenter slipped around the computer banks and into the next aisle where |
| his eyes automatically began to scan the rows of computer stations. |
| |
| But a little voice told him to stop - turn around - and peer through the |
| glass into the boss' private office. |
| |
| "Oh, no..." |
| |
| The "evil" was close; he could actually feel it vibrating in the little |
| muscles on the back of his arm. |
| |
| He forced his body over to the window, dropped his forehead onto the cold |
| glass and practically collapsed his weight onto the barrier. |
| |
| All he could see was the boss' computer, looming menacingly in the semi- |
| darkness. |
| |
| And he knew. |
| He knew without inspecting the unit what he would find if he chose to |
| violate her sanctuary. |
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| "Oh, no, no, no..." |
| |
| He was thinking of the years that stretched out behind him, of the |
| loyalty he owed to a woman who had scraped him out of one problem after |
| another. |
| |
| He was thinking of tomorrow, the next day, and life without the team. |
| |
| "Oh, no... Oh, no, no, no, no, no..." |
| |
| There was an evil in Carpenter's world - just as in shadows of his |
| strange dreams. There was an evil that had come for him and called for |
| him to account. |
| |
| It was an evil strong enough to destroy him, his friends and more. |
| |
| He knew where it was, essentially what it was, and he knew he could do |
| nothing to stop it. |
| |
| To be continued Next Month... |
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| Not Common! |
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| * W.C. Fields was not a common person anyway, but when he claimed, as a |
| tax deduction, donations to a church in the Solomon Islands and he claim-|
| ed depreciation on his lawnmower. |
| * In Dacca, India a group of beggars held a convention. At this convention|
| they decided to form a union. The first rule of the union was that no |
| one would take anything less than 15 paisa per day when begging. |
| * A not common man was one Charles Wells. Mr. Wells holds the distinction |
| of having broken the bank at Monte Carlo fifteen times in the year 1890. |
| In 1891 he returned and broke the bank five more times. |
| * Peter Biggs of England had an unusual cure for baldness. He said he had |
| good results by rubbing horse manure on his head. |
| * In 1964 the U.S. patent office had on record an unusual zipper. The |
| zipper was called the "Forget Me Not" zipper. It was attached to a small|
| boy's zipper and would ring an alarm when the child failed to zip up his |
| pants or the fly came open during play. |
| * The Winchester house has been called the most unusual house of all. But |
| it couldn't hold a candle to the house in Africa were several tribes |
| hollowed out a baobab tree and set up housekeeping there. The trunk of |
| of the tree was 30 feet thick and offered some very spacious living |
| accommodations. The tree itself is unusual for the branches grow down. |
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| Archaeologists take sedimental journeys. |
| Middle Age: Halfway between adolescence and obsolescence! |
| You can never get rid of a bad temper by losing it. |
| Editing is a rewording activity. |
| Equal bytes for women. |
| Get off your ASCII. |
| Your Zip file is open. |
| Remember, even if you win the rat race - you're still a rat. |
| Condense soup, not books. |
| Eliminate government waste no matter how much it costs. |
| Give me librium or give me meth. |
| Graffiti has changed deface of the nation. |
| Life is like a diaper - short and loaded. |
| Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. |
| SDRAWKCAB spelled backwards is backwards. |
| Courage is fear that has said its prayers. |
| Go Hawaiian: Give your gal a lei. |
| Last sperm in is a rotten egg. |
| Support peace or I'll kill you. |
| Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings. |
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| Every time the young woman walked by the house she got a cold chill. Not |
| because the house looked strange or anything but because of something the |
| house had been used for. The young woman had experienced, in her short |
| life, many psychic events and had learned not to take any of them lightly. |
| She finally reported her feelings to a friend of hers who was a profession-|
| al parapsychologist. He then approached the people of the house and asked |
| if they had experienced anything strange. This opened the door to one of |
| the most bizarre investigations of the parapsychologists career. |
| The woman of the house told the parapsychologist of several experiences. |
| The most frightening of which occurred right after she had her baby. Her |
| sister came to New York to visit her because of the new born and reported |
| seeing a woman in black standing over the baby's crib while the baby slept.|
| It made her very concerned for her child and the child's welfare. She |
| would get up and check on the child numerous times during the night as well|
| move the child's crib into her bedroom so she could keep an eye on him. |
| Further, during the day, the child was rarely out of her sight. But after |
| several months of taking these precautions and not seeing the woman in |
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| lady in black was. This put an overpowering fear into her. She quickly |
| rushed into the room and grabbed her baby and went back to the living |
| room to join her parents. She refused to let the child out of her sight. |
| Late one night, with the child sleeping quietly in the crib next to her |
| bed, she fell asleep. Suddenly she was startled awake by the feel of an |
| icy hand grasping her arm. |
| On another occasion, her niece was there visiting. She came in during the |
| night to wake her aunt because she didn't feel well. She found a woman in |
| black there, pulling the covers off her aunt, but when she tried to wake |
| her, she would not wake up. She shook her hard and still she did not |
| wake. She told her aunt of the incident the next morning. |
| The woman convinced a friend of her's to move in with her. The friend, a |
| music teacher, had on her first day there her violin destroyed by unseen |
| hands. On another occasion the friend was standing at the kitchen sink |
| washing her hands when something came up behind her, grabbed her by the |
| back of the neck and pounded her head on the kitchen sink. |
| The friend would have left right then and there, but feared for her friend |
| and didn't want to leave her there alone. She stayed, regardless of her |
| desires to run, not walk, from the house. |
| Even the car the woman used was effected. One time she was driving the |
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| down the street towards home when suddenly it began to speed up. She tried|
| to pull her foot off the gas pedal but could not. She looked down at the |
| pedal to see if something had slid down under it, but what she saw instead |
| was the outline of a large black shoe over the top of her foot. The car |
| reached the speed of nearly 70 miles an hour before it began slowing down. |
| Finally a seance was held. During the seance all present heard clearly the|
| cry out for help of a child. 'Help me,' was all that was heard, but it |
| was said over and over again. Footsteps could also be heard, mostly in |
| attic and noises from the basement were heard. What the seance did yield, |
| according to the psychic involved, was that the house had, at one time, |
| been used as a meeting place for a group of people who practiced the |
| religious activities of Satanism. Black magic was commonly used in the |
| house as well as children for sacrifices. |
| That was enough to convince both women living there to get out, and get |
| out quickly. |
| The house still stands. Those living in it may or may not be having the |
| same experiences. It is not certain. But the psychic stated there was |
| enough evil, negative energy in the house it would not be possible to make |
| it clean. |
| The owners did not wish to be identified. |
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| GEMI Announces Workshops For Its March Conference |
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| DC/US Newswire: The Global Environmental Management Initiative announced as|
| part of its annual conference, it will offer 2 workshops: 1 on improving |
| environmental communications & a 2nd on refining technical expertise in |
| Total Quality Environmental Management. On 3-22, & 3-23, communications |
| & environmental managers will gain first-hand experience in how the media |
| covers & reports on an environmental "incident." Also on March 23, an |
| introductory workshop on TQEM principles will be held. The conference, |
| "Corporate Quality/Environmental Management III: Leadership - Vision to |
| Reality," will follow on March 24-25. Current GEMI Members: |
| Allied Signal, Inc. Duke Power Company |
| Amoco Corporation Eastman Kodak Company |
| Apple Computer, Inc. E.I. duPont De Nemours & Co. |
| AT&T Florida Power & Light |
| The Boeing Company Merck & Company, Inc. |
| Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Occidental Petroleum Corp. |
| Browning-Ferris Industries Olin Corporation |
| Colgate-Palmolive Company The Procter & Gamble Co. |
| Consolidated Rail Corporation The Southern Company |
| Digital Equipment Corporation Union Carbide Corporation |
| The Dow Chemical Company Weyerhaeuser Company |
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| Federal Employees' "Bus Tour" Takes Message To Washington |
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|.--------------. DC/US Newswire: Hundreds of federal workers belonging to |
||( TOP CITY | the nation's two largest independent government unions will|
||(( BBS | take a "bus tour" of Wash, DC on March 2, ending with a |
||((( --------- | 12:30 pm rally at Lafayette Park across from the White |
||(((( | House to bring to Congress & the Clinton administration |
||((((( | their message of the need to "thaw" Clinton's proposed |
||(((( SysOp: | federal pay freeze & improve benefits & working conditions,|
||((( RamSoft 1 | according to the presidents of National Treasury Employees |
||(( | Union & the NFFE. Tobias, NTEU president & Robert Keener, |
||( 612-225-1003| president of NFFE said the demonstration was in keeping |
|`--------------' with Clinton's desire for change. Union leaders called for |
| the president to include them in reinventing the way government works. "We |
| have been seeking a new partnership in public service for 12 yrs only to be|
| ignored," they said. "We make America work & we have the skills & expertise|
| to make it work better. We're asking the President to consult us, include |
| us & help free us to participate fully in government decision-making." The |
| bus tour is part of week-long lobbying efforts by the unions to press for |
| the issues which include preventing the pay freeze, passage of Hatch Act |
| reform & funding for locality pay, fair treatment of temporary employees, |
| reform of fed. employee health care & of the way EEO cases are handled. |
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| Bianca Jagger Testifies at Helsinki Commission Hearing |
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| The Commission on Security & Cooperation in Europe, the Helsinki Commission|
| convened a hearing on rape & other war crimes in the former Yugoslavia |
| on Feb. 25. Appearing at the hearing, chaired by Sen. Dennis DeConcini & |
| Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, was: * Bianca Jagger, a human rights activist who |
| returned recently from an 11-day trip to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia & |
| Serbian-occupied territory w/UN High Commissioner for Refugees personnel. |
| During the trip Jagger interviewed refugees recently interned in Serbian |
| concentration camps, both men and women, that have been the victims of |
| atrocities, including rape & torture; * Feryal Gharahi, a Muslim-American |
| attorney & vice chair of the board of directors of Equality NOW, which |
| sponsored Jagger's trip. Gharahi traveled with Jagger to Croatia and |
| Bosnia-Herzegovina. Her testimony focused on the stories of two Muslim |
| rape victims now in the U.S., who did in a closed session with some |
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| DC/US Newswire: The Natural Resources Defense Council applauded the |
| Supreme Court's decision denying a pesticide industry appeal of a lower |
| court's decision requiring EPA to enforce the Delaney Clause, prohibiting |
| cancer-causing pesticides in processed foods. "Legal food should be safe |
| food," stated Al Meyerhoff, NRDC's attorney in the case. "The Supreme |
| Court's decision is one more step in that direction." While the case |
| involved specific pesticides, the precendent set will apply to dozens |
| of other pesticides EPA has identified as carcinogenic that concentrate |
| when raw commodities are processed. "We are confident the Clinton |
| .--------------. administration will follow the rule of law," added |
| |**************| Meyerhoff. The Natural Resources Defense Council, a |
| | CHAT BBS! | national, non-profit, environmental advocacy organization,|
| |**************| & the AFL-CIO & Public Citizen brought the original |
| | "A Friendly | lawsuit against EPA demanding that the agency enforce |
| | Place In | the Delaney Clause that bans the use of pesticides "that |
| | Cyberspace" | induce cancer" in foods ultimately processed. In July of |
| |--------------| 1992, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco |
| |(612)-560-1770| unanmiously ruled in NRDC's favor. The court said that |
| |Minneapolis,MN| the 1958 law was clear in prohibiting cancer-causing |
|3`--------------' pesticides if they concentrate in processed foods. |
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| HHS Fact Sheet on Childhood Immunization |
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| Childhood Immunization Key Facts |
| |
| -- Too few of America's children are receiving the immunizations |
| they need at the time they need them: |
| * Only about half or less of 2-year-olds are fully vaccinated. |
| * In some inner-city areas, the rate is as low as 10%. |
| * The resurgence of measles in 1989-1991 was a danger signal indicating|
| that our immunization system is not working as it should. |
| -- The price of vaccine has soared: |
| * In 1982, the cost to private providers of vaccine alone for a full |
| series of immunizations was $23. By 1992, the cost was $244. |
| -- Proper immunization saves money: |
| * Every $1 spent on vaccinations for measles, mumps & rubella saves |
| $10 to $14 in long term costs. |
| * The measles outbreak of '89-'91 caused 44,000+ days of hospital- |
| ization. |
| -- In addition to cost, the major immunization problem is ease of access |
| in the medical system: |
| * Parents need a more "user-friendly" and integrated system, |
| where vaccinations are easily obtained. |
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