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Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a nation's war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a "Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed considerably enough to make the latest Missile Defense initiatives more successful? Can such an application of science be successful? Is a militarized space inevitable, necessary or impossible?

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gisterme - 05:07pm May 15, 2003 EST (# 11701 of 11713)

manjumicha2 - 12:35pm May 10, 2003 EST (# 11561 of ...) http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.o3LeaD1s9bU.723010@.f28e622/13165

"...NK nut cases have clearly told US officials that if attacked, they will strike back with whatever they have got at wherever they find their targets, including ichick's down-underwear and mazza's NRA defended back country..."

Manju...that sounds vaguely familiar. Isn't that exactly the same threat that Saddam Hussein made before he ran away? Yep. That's where I remember that threat from; and you're right about Kim Jong Il being a nut case. That man definately needs to be institutionalized.

rshow55 - 05:12pm May 15, 2003 EST (# 11702 of 11713)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

Crazy, desperate, scared - and dangerous enough. If the United States had really good relations with S. Korea, China, and Russia - getting a good resolution would not be nearly as difficult as it is now.

lchic - 04:37am May 16, 2003 EST (# 11703 of 11713)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Why aren't 'the men who ran away' being discussed in Muslim culture as just that - rich cowards - of negativity who destroy people!

Heaps of Holiday Accommodation available - plenty of airseats too ... all world destinations. Thanks to Negativity!

Just what contribution to the world economy have those SADBINS made?

lchic - 04:49am May 16, 2003 EST (# 11704 of 11713)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Ethiopia - Fistula Hospital in Addis Ababa

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ss/stories/s286560.htm

"" .. fistula. It's tragic and unpleasant and not widely recognised, but it affects millions of women and girls worldwide, thousands in Ethiopia alone. It's caused during childbirth when delivery goes wrong, and the baby gets stuck inside the mother. The pressure of the baby wears a hole between the mother's vagina and bladder so her urine constantly leaks out and her clothes are soaked day and night. The baby is stillborn and the mother often dies too. Dr Catherine Hamlin is the Director of the first and still the world's biggest fistula hospital.

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"" Take Mahabouba Mohammed, whom I met here in Addis Ababa. She had been sold into virtual slavery at the age of 8, raped by her master at 12 and then sent out into the bush at 13 to deliver the baby on her own. After a long labor, she delivered the dead baby herself but suffered crippling internal injuries, including a fistula.

Ms. Mohammed crawled back to the village, but the baby's father was horrified by her smell. He confined her in a faraway hut and removed the door — so that hyenas, attracted by the odor, would tear her apart at night.

This girl fought off the hyenas and crawled for a day to reach an American missionary, who eventually brought her to the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital that Dr. Hamlin heads. Dr. Hamlin was able to repair her fistula, and now Ms. Mohammed is a confident young nurse's aide at the hospital here.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/16/opinion/16KRIS.html

Donations to Hamlin Fistula Relief and Aid Fund, PO Box 965 Wahroonga NSW 2076. Ph (02) 9875 1241 Australia

lchic - 05:58am May 16, 2003 EST (# 11705 of 11713)
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Oil diamonds | diamondoids, could have practical uses. Artificial versions are already used in drugs to treat Parkinson's disease and viral infections. The tiny diamonds could also provide molecular-scale girders for nanotechnology.

http://www.nature.com/nsu/030512/030512-13.html

lchic - 06:16am May 16, 2003 EST (# 11706 of 11713)
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Iraq - GU - One hundred lives - memorial

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/memorial/0,13313,952862,00.html

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