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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 - 07:53am Sep 13, 2002 EST (# 4289 of 4307)

Enroning

Senator Tom Daschle is the Democrat Majority Leader in the United States Senate. Daschle has recently made a contribution to the English language by turning a noun into a verb. This has been happening in English for hundreds of years (even Shakespeare did it). Tom Daschle has coined the verb to Enron - from the name of the failed energy corporation (America's second largest bankruptcy, after WorldCom). The good senator said: "I don't want to Enron the American people. I don't want to see them holding the bag at the end of the day just like Enron employees have held the bag." He is treating the verb to Enron as if it means, "to undermine a person's future". So, if someone does something that will adversely affect your future, you could respond with, "Hey, you're Enroning me there." Or, I guess, we could Australianise and say, "Hey, you're Onetelling me there."
http://abc.net.au/newsradio/wordwatch.htm
http://abc.net.au/newsradio/

lchic - 08:18am Sep 13, 2002 EST (# 4290 of 4307)

9/11 disaster planning
http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/filters/specialreport/0,14622,6023411,00.html
http://www.arabicnews.com/science/science.html
http://www.arabicnews.com/

16 acres of disaster

How would business cope were the attack nuclear ?

lchic - 04:28pm Sep 13, 2002 EST (# 4291 of 4307)

Is Bush Brilliant or just getting there by Accident - GU Talk - http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?50@@.3ba7456d/0

lchic - 05:00pm Sep 13, 2002 EST (# 4292 of 4307)

op-ed

OIL - hyperinflation - RECESSION http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/13/opinion/13KRUG.html

""Just one problem: He cited no evidence of any immediate threat, no reason that invading Iraq is any more urgent today than it was in, say, 2000 ...

How would J.F.K. have handled Iraq?

"As a believer in the U.N., he would have done everything he could, with U.S. muscle, to get U.N. inspectors in there," Mr. Sorensen believes. Such a Kennedyesque approach, built around robust international inspections backed by the threat of force as a last resort, would also reduce the political fallout of war if it eventually erupted.

Unfortunately, what we still have not heard from Mr. Bush is a compelling case for the one course of action on which he seems fixated — immediate war.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/13/opinion/13KRIS.html

"" makes little sense now to focus the world's attention and our own military, intelligence, diplomatic and financial resources on a plan to invade Iraq instead of on Al Qaeda's ongoing plans to murder

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/13/opinion/13ALBR.html

http://www.iiss.org/

lchic - 05:06pm Sep 13, 2002 EST (# 4293 of 4307)

Author of newly published monograph says Colin POWELL (right winger) is viewed as 'moderate' only because the rest of the crew are so far right. Says the only opposition voice heard re GWB is GB-senior .... implies the Democrats are not perceptibly 'strong'

Need for a Demo-Gym to tone them up ?!

lchic - 05:14pm Sep 13, 2002 EST (# 4294 of 4307)

Different book - The closing of the American Mind - a best seller NYT reviewed

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