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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 - 07:09pm Mar 16, 2003 EST (# 10087 of 10104)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

:) A truth that Springers to mind --- this guy WAS CHECKING ...

"" .... the real Jerry Springer was sitting among them. An icon of popular American culture, in fact, the icon of popular American culture, had flown in to see the opera that takes his name in vain and that, ultimately, casts him into the fires of hell.

As word went round the auditorium, Springer was forced to stand and take a sheepish bow. At the interval, he stood up again to protest playfully 'It's not true', but, beyond this, the daytime TV star reserved judgment until the final curtain, when he pronounced the opera 'great', 'wonderful' and 'many layered',

in spite of its unflattering portrayal of him. 'Everyone is always telling me I am going to hell. Now I've seen it. Not many people get to see their own future,' he said, as minders shepherded him past crowds all chanting 'Jerry, Jerry, Jerry'.

http://www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,914826,00.html

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International Journalists have bags packed to leave baghdad --- no one will be checking --- their hotel is on the HIT LIST!!

rshow55 - 07:31pm Mar 16, 2003 EST (# 10088 of 10104)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

Cases of Illness Increase Over the Weekend By KEITH BRADSHER http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/16/international/16SHELL-INFE.html

HONG KONG, March 16 -- The number of cases of what the World Health Organization now calls "severe acute respiratory syndrome" continued to rise through the weekend and spread to additional countries, especially in Southeast Asia.

This could kill many millions - even billions - unless competent, disciplined people work together. Just such an illness could end the world as we know it. It doesn't take too many things going wrong - end for end - and that could happen.

Epidemiologists blow it sometimes - and they know it - but they face threats so dire that people are rational, usually - and so life goes on. If the knowledge of public health people were somehow wiped out - human life might be, too.

If the same clear-headed discipline, organization, and good sense were applied to solving political problems - dealing with the scourge of war - we'd be many, many miles ahead of where we are. The UN has made a start - but has a long way to go. A key thing in other human affairs, as in medicine - is getting facts straight. People can have their ideas gruesomely wrong - and the history of medicine has many examples.

Kipling's Our Fathers of Old http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?13@@.ee79f4e/241 paints a vivid, and historically perceptive picture, of mistakes in the history of medicine that are lauged at today - that blighted and shortened many, many millions of lives for many centuries.

Maybe the compromises we've carried over from the Treaty of Westphalia will be regarded, later, in a similar sense.

lchic - 07:49pm Mar 16, 2003 EST (# 10089 of 10104)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Showalter i'm sure 'you've' never been 'compromised' !

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rshow55 - 08:15pm Mar 16, 2003 EST (# 10090 of 10104)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

I've compromised. Been compromised! Been down and out. Been hopeful, too. http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee79f4e/224

http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee79f4e/228

The NICE: by PETER GOLDSWORTHY http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@@.ee79f4e/231

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