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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 - 05:35pm Mar 16, 2003 EST (# 10082 of 10104)

rshow55 - 02:25pm Mar 16, 2003 EST (# 10072 of ...) http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@28.15gDaYzQ5YO.2273277@40679d@.f28e622/11617

"...A solid UN that works is needed..."

"Works" being the keyword there. That's absolutely right. Otherwise, something else needs to be done.

"...The phrase that the UN must mean what it says expresses an important ideal..."

By Jove, I think you finally "get it", Robert! Whew! Getting you to understand that was harder than being dragged through a knothole.

"...Sometimes, once the point of decision has really arrived - people stop bluffing and jiving and settle for things in their interest - and mutual interest..."

Let's hope that's true for the sake of the UN as a "workable" organization.

lchic - 06:45pm Mar 16, 2003 EST (# 10083 of 10104)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Why didn't the three musketters .. whoops is that a forbidden french term ... whey didn't 'they' invite the Prime Minister of Baghdad-Iraq out to the Azores .... discussion would have been more purposeful ... and there would have been something/Iraq to talk about!

lchic - 06:48pm Mar 16, 2003 EST (# 10084 of 10104)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Johnno didn't make the party

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/cartoon/

lchic - 06:53pm Mar 16, 2003 EST (# 10085 of 10104)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Fire power used to be 'the power'

Then there was intelligent usages of information

Took a LONG LONG time ... and they're still working on it for folks to appreciate the need to cleanly wash hands

What about the epidemolgical need for information flows today?

"" cases of what the World Health Organization now calls "severe acute respiratory syndrome" continued to rise through the weekend and spread

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/16/international/16SHELL-INFE.html

lchic - 07:02pm Mar 16, 2003 EST (# 10086 of 10104)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

0011 - SARS - precautions to stop spread

One jumbo of passengers going into Germany have been quarentined already

Raises the question of the quality of air, and precautions, within airplane cabins

Didn't we hear that most airplanes recirculate 'the same air' ... for reasons of cost - not health

Then shouldn't the BEST airlines be setting a standard by both issuing face masks to travellers, and, improving and upgrading the quality of cabin air

There's a cost --- yet --- there's a possibility that airlines will be 'held to account' if they don't do their very best to LIMIT death

So who's speaking out?

Where's truth?

Not heard anything sensible so far !

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If this virus was tied to the death in the overcroweded LA prison system recently ... then ... shouldn't there be a SERIOUS attempt by the US to put back into the community many prisoners who've they've held for years, and who, should by now, be 'reformed for re-entry' ....

In http://www.epidem.com/ this sense --- do prisons do more harm than good?

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