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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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lchic - 09:21pm Sep 12, 2002 EST (# 4281 of 4290)

Key concepts for moving forward may include:

Benchmarking - defining the present

Incremental Change - moving on (carefully) - improving

Alliances - working with others

Longer Term Goals - having a sense of direction

Vision - aiming to get 'somewhere' (a known visualised destination)

lchic - 05:21am Sep 13, 2002 EST (# 4282 of 4290)

Pan Handle

Smiling
with dimples
beguiling
a whiling
'The Fixer'
awaiting
studiously
contemplating
averting eyes
deliberating
how to swing
right

right?
right!

lchic - 05:45am Sep 13, 2002 EST (# 4283 of 4290)

"" He pointed his silver-tongued gun with some delicacy and a certain noblesse oblige, but there was no doubt he was holding it to ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,791294,00.html ... From Kyoto and Johannesburg, to the ICC, steel tariffs, NMD and nuclear testing, too much has happened (or not happened) since last year's speech to take this one at face value.

lchic - 07:07am Sep 13, 2002 EST (# 4284 of 4290)

JEB http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=332781

http://www.independent.co.uk/

GEORGE http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=332907

lchic - 07:14am Sep 13, 2002 EST (# 4285 of 4290)

"" Aronsfeld hated myths and romanticising, and challenged those in the Jewish community who built a golden glow around the "haim" – life in the Old Country in Eastern Europe – or who only saw Israel through rose-tinted glasses. With angry candour, he challenged the myths of Jewish life which tried to obscure the many flaws and prejudices evident in the course of Jewish history. His descriptions of Jesus and of Spinoza as "outsiders" were thought-provoking and based on solid research. http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=331150

lchic - 07:19am Sep 13, 2002 EST (# 4286 of 4290)

"If you can learn by watching somebody else's mistakes, that can make life easier for you.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_medical/story.jsp?story=332469

lchic - 07:32am Sep 13, 2002 EST (# 4287 of 4290)

Miss Madeleine
http://abc.net.au/news/justin/nat/newsnat-13sep2002-102.htm

lchic - 07:43am Sep 13, 2002 EST (# 4288 of 4290)

RU space agency http://www.rosaviakosmos.ru/english/eindex.htm

http://abc.net.au/newsradio/

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