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To: Ken Benes who wrote (49644)	2/25/2000 10:38:00 PM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116786

<<Because of the lack of elasticity in the gold market, it was a given that prices above 300.00 would meet resistance>> While some of the walking numb around may view today's gold down move as a sign of resistance, or preference for paper assets, or some other factor, I think the shorts, or other big player in the gold market working in concert with them,(read as - an evil government lackey), leased smaller amounts of gold across the ENTIRE CURVE so as to sell back into spot! kitco.com And I had to see it? kitco.com

To: Ken Benes who wrote (49644)	2/26/2000 12:07:00 AM
From: Enigma	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116786

"Because of the lack of elasticity in the gold market, it was a given that prices above 300.00 would meet resistance. For this reason , it is untimely to announce any increase in production" Increases in production are coming from Nevada, South America, Africa - as part of comprehensive ongoing exploration programmes in specific areas of interest. Most of the increase in reserves comes from the areas where it is already mining. Are you suggesting that all of this work come to a halt - or are you suggesting that the company somehow suppresses this material fact? You claim to be an ex mining executive - on another occasion to have roamed the gold mines of the world - surely with all of this vast experience you must have some intuition into how vast mining enterprises work? George Cole who surely has no knowledge of Barrick or its personnel tars them as 'bad guys' On what basis? Because they are successful? - the deadly sin of the envious! Make no mistake about it - some mining companies will fail in this environment. Messrs. Cole and Benes will no doubt blame these failures on Barrick - forgetting that incompetence is the real deadly sin in business.

To: Ken Benes who wrote (49644)	2/26/2000 8:42:00 AM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116786

slow the tech rally?: Week of Feb. 12, 2000; Vol. 157, No. 7 Researchers Probe Cell-Phone Effects By J. Raloff Scientists are investigating perplexing biological effects of cell-phone use. Cell phones are hot. Some 85 million U.S. residents?30 percent of the population?have joined the mobile-phone revolution. Still, Americans have been relatively slow to go wireless. Even a decade ago, when U.S. cell-phone use was a rarity, 10 percent of Swedes had taken the wireless plunge, says Maria Feychting of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. Today, Nordic countries remain Western leaders, with 40 percent of Danes, half of Norwegians and Swedes, and almost 60 percent of Finns using cell phones. Many of these people are also reporting side effects, observes Monica Sandstr”m of the Swedish National Institute for Working Life in Ume†. Last week at a Bioelectromagnetics Society symposium in Washington, D.C., she unveiled data from her agency's new survey of cell-phone users?5,000 in Norway and another 12,000 in Sweden. One-quarter of the Norwegian users, she noted, feel warmth on or behind the ear when they use their phones. More troubling, she said, 20 percent also linked frequent headaches and recurring fatigue to cell-phone use. Her agency saw the same trends in Sweden, though the overall rates were somewhat lower, Sandstr”m notes. At least one of the symptoms noted, which include dizziness, concentration difficulties, memory loss, and a burning sensation, showed up in 47 percent of people who reported using these wireless devices an hour or more daily. Cellular phones, which send and receive radiofrequency (RF) signals via their attached antennas, come in digital and analog varieties. The newer, digital phones broadcast their communications in discrete bursts of energy, whereas analog devices employ continuous signals. Being energy hogs, analog phones also beam eight times as much energy into the user's head as digital phones do. Overall, "people using analog phones reported more symptoms and more sensations of all kinds," Sandstr”m says. However, she's quick to add, "we didn't measure RF emissions." Any headaches or other complaints might therefore trace to factors such as occupational stress, ergonomic issues, and even the warmth given off by a phone's battery. Yet cell phones' RF emissions clearly can affect the brain, (cont) sciencenews.org