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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (9308)	11/3/1999 8:24:00 PM
From: JPR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

1:Troops airdrop 2:Egypt air's perpendicular dive: Suspicions hinduonline.com deccanchronicleonline.com Troops get to remote Orissa areas Bhubaneswar: Nearly a week after the killer cyclone hit Orissa, rescue and relief teams on Wednesday accessed for the first time interior areas of worst-hit districts even as Cuttack sought immediate redeployment of armed forces following outbreak of epidemic in several of its pockets. cbsnews.com Egypt air: All of this just adds to the mystery. Aviation sources say it's hard to come up with an airplane failure scenario that fits the facts. The original descent of the plane looks to be controlled as if the pilots deliberately began the dive, and at this point, investigators can't rule that out. But why would that happen? The pilots may have started descending in response to a problem, like smoke, and then lost control. But there were no distress calls. So, now investigators are forced to consider even the most extreme scenarios -- the chance the plane may have forced down by a terrorist, or perhaps the unthinkable possibility that the jet was taken down by the pilots themselves.

To: Mohan Marette who wrote (9308)	11/3/1999 9:00:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Respond to of 12475

ComicRelief:A night in Bombay with Nicholas (Negroponte,MIT) & the Sloshed Priya Ganapati (Rediff) Futurologist and MIT Media Labs Director Nicholas Negroponte is in Bombay. It is evening. A cocktail and networking party is in progress... A very senior and very much sloshed executive to Nicholas: I don't think the Internet will impact the future in a big way. The Internet, like radio and television before it, will be used by the government for propaganda. People say that the Internet is the fourth revolution. But I don't think so. It has not made a big impact so far... A very tired but hugely patient Nicholas: I don't agree with you. The Internet has changed a lot of things. It is still young. Give it time and it is going to make a lot of difference. Very much sloshed: People say the Internet is the fourth revolution. But I don't know about that. Nicholas: So what were the other three (revolutions) before that? Beer Happy: The first was language... script, you know. The second was wheels. The fourth is the Internet! Flummoxed Nicholas: So what was the third? And where does the printing press fit in all here? Cheers: Printinnnggg press? I don't know! People have always manipulated it for their own needs.................<continued> 216.32.165.70