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To: JPR who wrote (10437)	1/4/2000 7:06:00 PM
From: JPR	Respond to of 12475

Are You A Neanderthal? Author: Unknown As you know, Neanderthal man may have interbred with modern man. His descendants are with us even today, passing for full-blooded Homo Sapiens. If you suspect a "touch of the old hand ax" in your ancestry, score yourself on this test: 1. Do your eyebrows meet in the middle? If so, give yourself five points. 2. Can you lock your knees in an upright position? If not, take five points. 3. Got a chin? If the answer is no, add three points. 4. How about a forehead? If not, add another three points. 5. Is it easy for you to balance a book on your head? Then give yourself five points. 6. Do you ever open Coke bottles with your teeth? If you do, add ten points. 7. Are you frequently more comfortable squatting on your heels than sitting in a chair? Take five points. 8. Is your head attached vertically to your neck? If not, add one point for every five degrees of slope. 9. Less than five feet tall? Add one point for every inch under. 10. If your lower arm is shorter than your upper arm, add one point for every inch of difference. 11. Ditto for your lower and upper legs. 12. Pigeon-toed? Five points. 13. Have you ever felt like bashing a **** *** with a club? You're normal--no points. 14. Is the space between your big toe and your other toes big enough to hold an apple? Add five points. 15. Do you regularly eat apples in this way? Add fifteen points. 16. Do people think you're wearing your hair in a bun when you're not? Give yourself ten points. 17. Can you count your vertebrae while wearing two sweaters and an overcoat? Take five more points. 18. Is your nickname "Duke", "Butch", or "Animal"? Three points. Scoring 0-20 points: You are a virtually pure Homo sapiens. Feel free to build bridges, compose symphonies, and overrun the world. 20-40 points: A slight Neanderthal strain means that you will occasionally have spells of primitive behavior, crawling around on all fours and whooping wildly. If you live in California, no one will notice. 40-60 points: You can still function quite well in the modern world, but avoid eating in fancy restaurants lest your table manners give you away. 60-80 points: Your Pleistocene heritage is predominant. You should consider a career in pro. contact sports. 80-100 points: Unfortunately, your genetic makeup is Grunt City; there is no place for you in human society. Try running for public office instead.

To: JPR who wrote (10437)	1/4/2000 8:51:00 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 12475

Indian Airlines' dubious distinction : NEW DELHI, JANUARY 4: Indian Airlines may soon be required to carry a statutory warning on its tickets -- "The airline with the most hijackings in the world". The latest incident which ended at Kandahar was the 15th since IA's inception. IA's dubious distinction came to light recently when the Secretary, Civil Aviation, Ravindra Gupta, being part of the Crisis Management Group (CMG), asked IA to compile a comparative list of international hijackings. This exercise brought to light the fact that IA flights had been hijacked the maximum number of times. International airlines, such as Lufthansa, have had one or two hijacks till date. Despite this dubious track record, IA has never taken any action against any of its personnel. There has been no dearth of inquiries though. Even in the case of IC 814, the Kathmandu-Delhi flight that was hijacked, the IA employees who issued boarding passes to the five hijackers despite the obvious discrepancies in the flight manifest are yet to be questioned. According tosources, the staff on duty on December 24 -- the day of the hijack -- has not been recalled to Delhi. While the official IA spokesman refused to comment, a senior IA official passed the buck: "We may be number one in terms of hijackings but that's hardly our fault. The problem lies with the terrible security provisions made by the Government on the ground." The airlines officials say that nowhere in the world is any airline responsible for ground security. They say they have already told the Ministry for Civil Aviation that even in the previous cases the hijackings had occurred due to security lapses on the ground for which the state police was responsible.