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LY D © oF VEN? USA TO GET DUAL CURRENCY? transform life as we know it. One by-product of such a tech- nology could be virtual tourism, as portrayed in the Arnold Schwarzenegger film, Total Recall. Brain-to-computer interfacing via infrared signals is just around the Is this an answer to economic woes or a money-laundering deterrent? On 31st January 1995, Mr Leahy introduced the following Bill to the US Senate. Senate Bill 20 (S20) was read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: "A BILL "To require the Secretary of the Treasury to design and issue new counterfeit-resistant $100 curren- comer. The possibilities are endless. (Source: Scotland on Sunday, 2 April 1995) NYPD BLEW [FI America’s biggest police force was in disgrace recently, after it emerged that dozens of New York police officers let off fire-extin- guishers, cavorted naked and fired their guns during a drunken ram- page through several Washington, D.C. hotels. Hundreds of guests were evacuat- ed from the Hyatt Hotel in the capital after the officers set off fire alarms early in the morning. Earlier, several officers had stripped naked and taken turns sliding down an escalator in the hotel lobby. It is also alleged that several officers harassed and intimidated female guests in their cy. "Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, "Section 1. Short Title: “This Act may be cited as the Counterfeiting and Money Laundering Deterrence Act of 1995. "Section 5123. Counterfeit-resistant $100 currency "(a) In General: Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this section, the Secretary of the Treasury, in consulta- tion with the Attorney General of the United States and the Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, shall design and designate a domestic-use $100- denomination bill and a nondomestic-use $100-denomination bill in accordance with the requirements of this section." (Source: Newsgroup alt.conspiracy, via Pegasus computer networks, Australia) IMPLANTS TO HOOK HUMANS INTO COMPUTER NETWORKS An intriguing article from Scotland on Sunday reveals that scientists in the US and Sweden have pioneered a method for graft- ing neurons to a computer chip. Research at Stanford University in California has already developed the tech- nology to enable war veterans and other amputees to feel sensation from an artifi- cial limb, by connecting the nerve endings from the lost limb to sensors in the artifi- cial replacement via a computer chip in the back of the neck. Virtual reality guru Michael Deering, of Sun Microsystems in California, says the ability to ‘hot-wire’ a human is about to rooms. The officers, about 200 of whom were involved in the rampage, were in Washington for a memorial service for dead comrades. The weekend binge caused more than US$30,000 damage. (Source: The Guardian Weekly, 28 May 1995) EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION CONTROVERSY The earthquake of magnitude 6.1 in south-western Greece during mid-June, which demolished two buildings and killed 20 people, has added fuel to a fierce scien- tific debate regarding a controversial method that claims to predict earthquakes by measuring increased electrical activity in the ground. Panayotis Varotsos of the University of Athens, who developed the technique— known as VAN—accuses Greek seismolo- gists of “playing with people's lives" by denying the scientific validity of his method. Varotsos says that, using the VAN method, he has correctly predicted the magnitude, timing and location of the three most recent earthquakes in Greece. He has been faxing information on the predicted Vy POT T GUT IITA. BE TOE TRUCK Cm ARR RSA SHH 6 © NEXUS AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 1995