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Whitley Strieber will be a Featured Author at the 2000 Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas. He will speak from 3:15 to 4:00PM in the Senate Chamber of the Texas State Capitol at Austin. He will be signing books from 4:15 until 5:00PM in the Texas Book Fair Signing Tent.

Some of the other Featured Authors are Ted Koppel, Larry Dossey, Kinky Friedman and Liz Smith.

Strieber will speak on the subject of “Being an Advocate for Rejected Knowledge” and will read a short story entitled “10 Minutes.”

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In a letter publicized Friday Hopi cultural affairs preservation officers asked John Kimmey of Taos, NM, to cease calling himself a “carrier of Hopi prophecy” and to no longer reveal Hopi secret teachings.

The letter said, “The Hopi people have suffered immensely due to the insensitive nature by which so-called experts exploit our knowledge.”

Kimmey, a non-Indian member of the Native American Church, asserts that ancient Hopi prophecies are meant to be shared with the public. He claims that Hopi elder David Monongye taught him the prophecies and gave him permission to reveal them to the public. Monongye has since died.
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AP – Crop Circle hoaxer Matthew Williams was found guilty of damage to property in Magistrates Court in the town of Devises in England today. He was fined 100 pounds and 40 pounds costs.

His defense was that Crop Circle researcher Michael Glickman had challenged him on Whitley Strieber’s Dreamland radio program to make a seven-starred circle. BBC World Service said that he had been goaded to action by an American radio program, whose host refused to believe that the best crop circles were hoaxed, and that the radio program turned him in to police.
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Gregory Robert Smith is frank about his brilliance. “I am proud of who I am” says the 11 year old Robert Macon College Sophomore. Gregory started college when he was ten. Child prodigies like Greg are rare enough, but he is truly one of a kind.

It’s because of his mission. It is brilliant, beautiful and terribly, terribly important. Greg believes that violence is the world’s core problem, and that violence toward children is a crisis that needs immediate attention. He challenges us: “what are you going to do right now?” He has assumed for himself a leadership position, and he seems well able to lead us forward on behalf of children everywhere.
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