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... GLOBAL NEWS ... NEWS British taxpayers alone paid £57 million valid and pre-programmed for driving that ALIEN ABDUCTIONS DOCTOR (AUD$120 million) towards the cost of car. This check is performed twice, once SURVIVES CLOSE ENCOUNTER! destroying fruit and vegetables of almost when you go to open the car door, and once Harvard University psychiatrist Dr John every type grown in Europe. when you put the card into the computer to E. Mack, Pulitzer Prizewinner and author All were fit for human consumption. start the car. The car will not start if the of the best-selling book, Abduction: Here you have a scheme whereby computer rejects the card. Human Encounters with Aliens, has sur- European taxpayers are funding a scheme According to the developers, you can _ vived a gruelling year-long academic panel which keeps the price of fruit and vegeta- even stipulate that the car won't start until investigation into his research methods. bles artificially high by destroying perfect- the driver has passed an alcohol or drug The peer-review committee was set up to ly good produce. test—with a test unit about the size of an establish whether Dr Mack had tried to The fruit is destroyed by being buried in _ electric shaver installed in the glove box of treat rather than merely study individuals the ground and allowed to rot. the cars of convicted offenders. claiming to have been abducted by and (Source: The Daily Telegraph [UK], 7 The licence will also store personal med- even sexually experimented upon by alien August 1995) ical details so as to provide information to beings. Considering that psychiatrists are police or ambulance officers in case of an trained to counsel patients in therapeutic SMART CARDS TO STOP CAR accident or when ‘needed’. Settings, the need for this sort of review is THEFT, AND THE REST (Source: Sunday Telegraph, 20 August 1995) rather odd. Under a new driver licensing system Could it be that the issue at stake is more being developed in Sweden, police will be _ CLEAN WATER—THE 'GOLD' OF academic control versus freedom, rather able to shut down your car's engine by THE FUTURE? than the welfare of people who genuinely temote control instead of chasing you all According to the World Bank, water will believe in the reality of their abduction over the highways and back streets. be the most sought-after natural resource experiences? The new smart card licence does every- and the most likely cause of wars in the The Mack attack was unfounded, and the thing from starting your car to ensuring you 21st century. Harvard Medical School has upheld his pass an alcohol breath-test each time you Chronic water shortages already affect freedom "to study what he wishes and to drive. 40% of the world’s population in 80 coun- _ state his conclusions without impediment". Computer-linked to police stations, the tries, and the situation will become far Dr Mack has issued no comment on the new licence will make use of onboard com- worse with an expanding population and a __ ruling, and the panel has made no state- puters to allow police to shut down the growing demand for water. ment about the validity or otherwise of the ignition systems of stolen cars, cars with The main constraint on food production abductees’ experiences. outstanding fines or warrants and cars out in the developing world has been a short- Mainstream psychiatry still might not of registration. age of land, but it would be a scarcity of take the abduction phenomenon seriously, The system operates through a computer _ water in the future, as a World Bank study but at least Dr Mack can look forward to installed in the car and run by the electron- has found. continuing his work without too much ic driver's licence (EDL) encoded with the Global demand for water is increasing by Earthly harassment. driver's specific details. 2.3% a year, doubling every 21 years. (Sources: Nature, vol. 374, 4 May 1995, vol. Car keys, steering locks and ignitions It is estimated that a billion people in the 376, 10 August 1995; The Sydney Morning will all be replaced by a card-reader about world today do not have access to clean Herald, 5 August 1995) the cama cive ac a ear ctaran dArinbinae watar and almact ac manu aaain SMART CARDS TO STOP CAR THEFT, AND THE REST Under a new driver licensing system being developed in Sweden, police will be able to shut down your car's engine by temote control instead of chasing you all over the highways and back streets. The new smart card licence does every- thing from starting your car to ensuring you pass an alcohol breath-test each time you drive. Computer-linked to police stations, the new licence will make use of onboard com- puters to allow police to shut down the ignition systems of stolen cars, cars with outstanding fines or warrants and cars out of registration. The system operates through a computer installed in the car and run by the electron- ic driver's licence (EDL) encoded with the driver's specific details. Car keys, steering locks and ignitions will all be replaced by a card-reader about the same size as a car stereo. In the future, when you go to get into your car, the computer will first check that the driver's licence details on the card are vee omer eee ne me v7 ng developed in Sweden, police will be CLEAN WATER—THE 'GOLD' OF le to shut down your car's engine by THE FUTURE? note control instead of chasing you all According to the World Bank, water will or the highways and back streets. be the most sought-after natural resource [he new smart card licence does every- and the most likely cause of wars in the ag from starting your car to ensuring you 21st century. 3s an alcohol breath-test each time you Chronic water shortages already affect ve. 40% of the world's population in 80 coun- Domputer-linked to police stations, the tries, and the situation will become far w licence will make use of onboard com- worse with an expanding population and a ters to allow police to shut down the growing demand for water. tition systems of stolen cars, cars with The main constraint on food production ‘standing fines or warrants and cars out in the developing world has been a short- registration. age of land, but it would be a scarcity of [he system operates through a computer _ water in the future, as a World Bank study talled in the car and run by the electron- _ has found. driver's licence (EDL) encoded with the Global demand for water is increasing by ver's specific details. 2.3% a year, doubling every 21 years. car keys, steering locks and ignitions It is estimated that a billion people in the 1 all be replaced by a card-reader about world today do not have access to clean same size as a car stereo. drinking water, and almost as many again n the future, when you go to get into lack adequate sanitation. ir car, the computer will first check that (Sources: The Sydney Morning Herald, The driver's licence details on the card are Australian, 8 August 1995) ON~DARKNESS FACILITAIOR: PHEUMATICALLY Bs CHALLENGED =f. a NIEVE IC EUROPEAN UNION BANS BOVINE GROWTH HORMONE UNTIL THE YEAR 2000 On 14th December 1994, the European Council of Ministers imposed a ban through the year 2000 on the commercial use of the controversial, genetically engi- neered, bovine growth hormone. In the USA, on 3rd February 1994 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the injection of the hormone into dairy cows in the United States. Over the objections of consumers and farmers, the FDA also severely restricted dairy producers’ ability to label products produced by this hormone. Friederich-Wilhelm Graefe zu Baringdorf, Vice President of the EU Agriculture Committee, wrote in a letter to FDA Commissioner, David Kessler, that, “Consumers in the European Union...are apparently much more concerned about the 8 « NEXUS OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 1995