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[bcoley at VNET.IBM.COM]

Hello All,

I am new to the list, and I hope this item (from News of the Weird)
is new to you (I'm only up to '93 in the archives):

 * In 1992, an advisor to Russian President Boris Yeltsen
 proposed that emergency relief food and supplies could be placed
 in the nuclear warhead housing of an SS-18 intercontinental
 ballistic missile and fired into remote areas of the world as
 humanitarian aid.  That suggestion was not accepted, but the
 ITAR-Tass news agency reported in June that an SS-18 launched
 from a nuclear submarine near Murmansk, across nine time
 zones, delivered 1,270 pieces of mail to Kamchatka. [Chicago
 Sun-Times, Jun95]

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Brett Coley                                         bcoley at vnet.ibm.com
Raleigh NC
This bowling ball isn't human. It doesn't feel pain. It can't be reasoned with.