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I have never once found a lost slide. But according to this site:

Every year, untold numbers of slides are dumped on the street. Some are thrown away by uncaring stock houses, some are discarded after a new digital camera is bought, some are just lost in the shuffle during cleaning. Only with your help can they be reunited with their rightful owners. So please, if you know of someone who has lost a slide, we hope that you will tell them about us and our cause. You can make a difference.

From Yahoo! News:

TOKYO – After decades of evading the public eye and U.S. justice officials, former world champion Bobby Fischer — possibly the best and certainly the most eccentric chess player ever — has been taken into custody by Japanese immigration after allegedly trying to leave the country with an invalid passport.

Fischer, 61, was detained at Narita Airport outside Tokyo while trying to board a Japan Airlines flight for the Philippines on Tuesday, according to friends and airport officials. The U.S. Embassy confirmed Fischer was detained.

UPDATE:
Here is a very interesting article from The Atlantic about Bobby Fischer including some excerpts from a radio broadcast from the Phillipines where he stated:

• The United States government is a “brutal, evil dictatorship” that has falsely accused Bobby Fischer of a crime and forced him to live in exile.
• The Jews are a “filthy, lying bastard people” bent on world domination through such insidious schemes as the Holocaust (“a money-making invention”), the mass murder of Christian children (“their blood is used for black-magic ceremonies”), and junk food (William Rosenberg, the founder of Dunkin’ Donuts, is singled out as a culprit).
• Chess is nothing more than “mental masturbation.” Not only is the game dead, it’s fixed. Gary Kasparov, the world’s top-rated player, is a “crook” and a former KGB spy who hasn’t played a match in his life in which the outcome wasn’t prearranged.

Yikes.

This instructional guide is for American families preparing for imminent nuclear attack, with widespread radioactive fallout, from atomic bomb(s), not just a small localized ‘dirty bomb’ incident. (IF NOT imminent, there might be time for even more that you can and should do, linked near the end, in addition to the following!)

This kind of reminded me of the book Lucifer’s Hammer where people were preparing for a comet to hit instead of an atom bomb. The problem was the people who were prepared were just looted by roving gangs of people who weren’t prepared. I suggest adding a shotgun to the list.

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They watch FOX so you don’t have to.

This reminds me of an old Vonnegut short story where the population had grown out of control so the government would encourage people to try suicide machines.

VHEMT (pronounced vehement) is a movement not an organization. It’s a movement advanced by people who care about life on planet Earth. We’re not just a bunch of misanthropes and anti-social, Malthusian misfits, taking morbid delight whenever disaster strikes humans. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Voluntary human extinction is the humanitarian alternative to human disasters.

When every human chooses to stop breeding, Earth’s biosphere will be allowed to return to its former glory, and all remaining creatures will be free to live, die, evolve (if they believe in evolution), and will perhaps pass away, as so many of Mother Nature’s “experiments” have done throughout the eons. Good health will be restored to the Earth’s ecology… to the “life form” known by many as Gaia.