I accidentally posted an unfinished journal entry called “Let’s Do It” in this space last night. It was posted out of sequence and will be reposted shortly.

What I intended to do, as 2008 gets rolling, is to post the first couple of paragraphs from my first journal entry, originally posted in February of 1998, 10 years ago. The entry was entitled “What I Believe”, and I find that I would not change a word of it, even now. Here is what I believe:
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We throw trash in it?no wonder it’s not doing that well. Only about 4% of the world’s oceans are not damaged by human activities such as fishing and pollution. Human-caused global warming has also taken a toll on coral reefs?but it turns out that they may get some NATURAL protection from the ocean.
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The US Department of Agriculture told US farmers to keep their cloned animals off the market at the same time that the Food and Drug Administration officials announced that food from cloned livestock is safe to eat. And huge amounts of beef have been recalled in California. What’s going on?
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If you’re planning on seeing a film today, you’ll be glad to know that someday soon, we’ll be able to watch 3D films WITHOUT those pesky cardboard glasses because they’ll be holograms.

BBC News reports that researchers have developed a material in which holographs can be created in minutes. Of course, the images in animation need to change every few SECONDS, so this would create very slow movements, meaning the holograms aren?t ready for movie theaters yet.

Meanwhile, quantum physics has reached our movie theaters. Do parallel universes?of the kind Whitley wrote about in his latest novel 2012? really exist? What about time travel and teleportation?
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