What’s a flash mob? It starts with a message sent to a list of people telling them all to show up at the same place at the same time and to be prepared to do something crazy, then vanish into thin air. Now it’s gone global.

Michelle Delio writes in wired.com that “this Saturday, at 2 pm local time, people in 76 cities in 32 countries will participate in a global flash to celebrate the first anniversary of what is now a worldwide phenomenon.” The first mob gathered on June 19, 2003.
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Scientists trying to reduce the number of mice in Australia ended up creating a bioweapon instead?so why couldn’t terrorists do the same thing?

Ean Higgins writes in The Australian that immunologists Ron Jackson and Ian Ramshaw injected 10 mice with a mousepox virus that had been modified to trick the mice’s immune systems into making their eggs infertile. The plan was for the mice to stay healthy, so they could pass their altered genes along to others. But instead the mice all ended up dead. The researchers created a terrorist weapon by accident.
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In our series of new Communion Letters, we heard from Mick, who writes: Yes, I too have had an abduction/dream experience in the early nineties. It happened after seeing the Band “Psychic TV” at The Ritz (Studio 54) in New York City. They were using a lot of strobe lights flashing in time (sort of) to the music. I didn’t drink a lotmaybe 2 beersand yes, I might have smoked a couple of puffs of grass somebody handed me, but by the end of the show when we went home, I was sober.
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In our series of new Communion Letters, we heard from Mick, who writes: “Yes, I too have had an abduction/dream experience in the early nineties. It happened after seeing the Band “Psychic TV” at The Ritz (Studio 54) in New York City. They were using a lot of strobe lights flashing in time (sort of) to the music. I didn’t drink a lot?maybe 2 beers?and yes, I might have smoked a couple of puffs of grass somebody handed me, but by the end of the show when we went home, I was sober.” That didn’t stop him from seeing the aliens who broke into his house!

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