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Russian military leaders have expressed concern about US plans for a national missile defense system. Will defense technology be limited by possibilities for a strategic imbalance? Is this just SDI all over again?

lunarchick - 05:16pm Sep 4, 2001 EST (#8454 of 8469)
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rshowalter - 05:19pm Sep 4, 2001 EST (#8455 of 8469)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Another thing people like, besides celebrity. They like fights.

I'm all for gentility, myself, but maybe some of these questions of fact would be worth fighting for. And even fun to fight for.

Sounds like fun to me.

lunarchick - 05:21pm Sep 4, 2001 EST (#8456 of 8469)
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China: We have reformed civil rights

Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji acknowledged China's human rights record was not perfect - but said there have been many reforms. "My point is not that we are perfect in our political and social reforms and in our human rights situation," he said during a business breakfast in Ireland, organized as part of an official visit. But Zhu said foreign nations, and in particular foreign journalists, had only a limited understanding of China, and spent too much time focusing on the Falun Gong sect, Tibet and human rights - ignoring the reforms.
(The Times London)

ledzeppelin - 05:21pm Sep 4, 2001 EST (#8457 of 8469)

Re: rshowalter - 05:16pm Sep 4, 2001 EST (#8453 of 8454

The question is, should nations that pollute this global village pay for the damage and deaths arising from such pollution? Yes or No.

lunarchick - 05:23pm Sep 4, 2001 EST (#8458 of 8469)
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'People like fights ... like them to be fun'
Is this why boxing and wrestling are choreographed?

rshowalter - 05:24pm Sep 4, 2001 EST (#8459 of 8469)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

From where the Chinese sit, prosperity comes first. A lot of people agree with that.

But if they do things carefully, they may find that they can do well on human rights, and gain productivity while they're at it. It takes a good deal of freedom, as well as work and discipline, to get to "win-win" situations - which is what the Chinese and Russians need, and are working for.

rshowalter - 05:25pm Sep 4, 2001 EST (#8460 of 8469)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

Choreographed to go on longer, and be more dramatic, than real fights really are. When competant guys (soldiers, for example) go at it for real, somebody gets hurt plenty quickly.

lunarchick - 05:26pm Sep 4, 2001 EST (#8461 of 8469)
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Re pollution ... perhaps a leaf should be taken out of the book of pedophilia here ... and people abroad in a lesser developed country be made to abide to their home countries stricter regulations.

lunarchick - 05:26pm Sep 4, 2001 EST (#8462 of 8469)
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So real war ain't that entertaining? Why bother!

lunarchick - 05:32pm Sep 4, 2001 EST (#8463 of 8469)
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Ted's for sport in the Sunshine State

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