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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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commondata - 09:31pm Sep 24, 2002 EST (# 4512 of 4536)

The Great and the Go[o]d, Signatories to the Appeal of October 2, 2000

Maya Angelou, Poet, Author Kenneth J. Arrow, Nobel Laureate, Economics

Marc Benioff, Chairman, Salesforce.com

Hans Bethe, Nobel Peace Laureate; Physicist, Manhattan Project

Eli Broad, Chairman and CEO, Sun America, Inc.

Pierce Brosnan, Actor, Producer

Betty Bumpers, Founder and President, Peace Links

President Jimmy Carter

Liz Claiborne, Co-Founder, Liz Claiborne, Inc.

Joe Costello, Chairman & CEO, think3

Senator Alan Cranston, President, Global Security Institute

Walter Cronkite

James Crowe, CEO, Level 3 Communications, Inc.

Admiral William J. Crowe Jr., U.S.N. (Ret.), Director, BioPort Corp.; Former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

Lester Crown, Chairman, Executive Committee, General Dynamics Corporation

Rob DeSantis, Co-Founder, Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer, Ariba, Inc.

Alan M. Dershowitz, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

John Doerr, Partner, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers

Michael Douglas, Actor, Producer, UN Messenger of Peace

Richard Dreyfuss, Actor

Peter Drucker, Writer; Professor of Social Science and Management, Claremont Graduate School

Gloria Duffy, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense

Freeman J. Dyson, Professor Emeritus Mathematical Physics and Astrophysics, Institute for Advanced Study

Marian Wright Edelman, President, Children’s Defense Fund

Mia Farrow, Mother, Actress

Joe Firmage, CEO, Project Voyager; Former CEO, US Web

Harrison Ford, Actor

Seth Glickenhaus, Sr. Partner, Glickenhaus & Co.

General Andrew Goodpaster, U.S.A. (Ret.), Former Supreme Allied Commander, Europe

Robert Haas, Chairman of the Board, Levi-Strauss & Co.

William Hambrecht, Chairman and CEO, W.R. Hambrecht & Co.

David Hamburg, President Emeritus, Carnegie Corporation of New York

Alan Hassenfeld, Chairman and CEO, Hasbro, Inc.

Francis Hatch

Peter deCourcy Hero, President, Community Foundation Silicon Valley

Father Theodore Hesburgh, Former President, University of Notre Dame

Arnold Hiatt, Former CEO, Stride Rite

Dee Hock, Founder and CEO Emeritus, VISA

General Charles Horner, U.S.A.F. (Ret.), Commander, Coalition Air Forces, Desert Storm; Former Commander in Chief, USSPACECOM

Bill Joy, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Sun Microsystems

Jerry Kaplan, Co-Chair, Egghead.com

Henry Kaufman, President, Henry Kaufman Company

Coretta Scott King, Founding President, Martin Luther King Jr. Center

Michael King, Former CEO, King World

Steven Kirsch, Founder, Infoseek; Chairman and Founder, Propel

Ann Landers, Columnist

Gary and Laura Lauder, General Partners, Lauder Partners

William Laughlin, Former Chair, Saga Corporation

Elisabeth Leach, Chairman, Peace Links

Ambassador James Leonard, Director, Washington Council on Nonproliferation; Former Assistant Director, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

Kathy Levinson, Former President and COO, E*Trade

Robert McNamara, Former Secretary of Defense

Mike Medavoy, Chairman, Phoenix Pictures

Harry Motro, Chairman, CEO and Founder, Motroventures.com

Ambassador Paul Nitze

Admiral William A. Owens, U.S.N. (Ret.), Co-CEO, Teledesic; Former Vice-Chair, Joint Chiefs of Staff

Kim Polese, Chairman, Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder, Marimba, Inc.

Sally Ride, Astronaut; President, Space.com

Anita Roddick, Chairman, The Body Shop

Tom Rubin, President, Focus Media, Inc.

George F. Russell Jr., Chairman of the Board, Frank Russell Company

Vincent Ryan, CEO, Schooner Capital Corporation

Robert Saldich, Former CEO, Raychem

Marion Sandler, Chairman and CEO, World Savings and Loan Association

Jared Schutz Polis, President, JPS International

Sarah Sewall, Former Deputy Assistant Se

lchic - 10:00pm Sep 24, 2002 EST (# 4513 of 4536)

Good God! Some people do care ....

lchic - 10:05pm Sep 24, 2002 EST (# 4514 of 4536)

Showalter posted the full list here rshow55 9/23/02 8:11pm - carefully and caringly.

lchic - 10:06pm Sep 24, 2002 EST (# 4515 of 4536)

It's the economy, stupid

As one dealer in London said: "There's a continual drip, drip of bad news every day, and no sign of much good news anywhere on the horizon."

pushed oil prices to over $30 a barrel on fears that war could disrupt oil supplies

latest downward revision, the bank (of England) earlier this month downgraded its US forecast to 2.3% from 2.8% in August

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,798092,00.html

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