Parole Hearing For Manson Follower
Wednesday June 5, 2002 2:10 PM
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) - A judge ordered a new parole hearing for former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten, saying her good behavior behind bars should be considered.
Superior Court Judge Bob N. Krug also suggested Monday that the state Board of Prison Terms provide further [...]

Date:   06-11-02 00:54
The Moon Society, a nonprofit organization of astronomers, computer programmers and other scientists, advocate ‘large-scale industrialization and private enterprise’ on the moon.
Should the moon be developed?
Lunar golf courses, largescale industrialization under debate
By Jim Carlton
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
May 24 — A dispute over prohibiting development on the moon is causing rising tides of controversy on [...]

Title: [2025] Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning the Weather in 2025
Subject: Military applications of weather modification in 2025.
Author(s): Ronald J. Celentano; Tamzy J. House (Faculty Advisor); David Mark Husband; Ann E. Mercer; James B. Near (Faculty Advisor); James E. Pugh; William B. Shields
DTIC Keywords: ANTIFOGGING AGENTS, ANTIFOGGING DEVICES, ATMOSPHERES, CLEAR WEATHER, CLOUDS, CONTROLLED ATMOSPHERES, [...]

WEATHER WARS
BY JIM WILSON
It is 2025. An enemy unknown to 20th-century Americans has massed its army at the border of a friendly country in a remote part of the world. High above them flies a single, unmanned stealth aircraft. A faint wisp of black dust sprays from its tail, spurring the creation of the only [...]

US plan to strike enemy with Valium
Pentagon scientists aim for future battlefield victories with the aid of tranquillising drugs and GM bugs
Antony Barnett, public affairs editor
Sunday May 26, 2002
The Observer
American military chiefs are developing plans to use Valium as a potential weapon against enemy forces and to control hostile populations, according to official documents seen [...]

Neuroscience
The future of mind control
May 23rd 2002
From The Economist print edition
People already worry about genetics. They should worry about brain science too
IN AN attempt to treat depression, neuroscientists once carried out a simple experiment. Using electrodes, they stimulated the brains of women in ways that caused pleasurable feelings. The subjects came to no harm—indeed their [...]

High school testing eyed for schizophrenia signs
By Ellen Barry, Globe Staff, 5/25/2002
PHILADELPHIA - Hoping to head off the most debilitating of mental illnesses before it strikes, Yale University researchers are laying plans to search for a secret hidden in the brains of ninth-graders: In every group of 100 students, one will go on to develop [...]