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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 - 11:44pm Apr 20, 2003 EST (# 11377 of 11500)
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Would there be a 'record' of this ?

http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?50@@.4a91190b/0

Would there be a 'record' of this ?

lchic - 06:31am Apr 21, 2003 EST (# 11378 of 11500)
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North - South - Korea - talk April 27-9

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=399033

lchic - 06:33am Apr 21, 2003 EST (# 11379 of 11500)
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Hollywood revives McCarthyist climate by silencing and sacking war critics By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles 21 April 2003

Hollywood is often depicted in the US media as a hotbed of anti-government dissent and left-wing politics but that is not how it feels to Ed Gernon.

Mr Gernon was, until recently, a television producer at CBS responsible for a four-part miniseries on Hitler's rise to power, which will be shown next month. He thought the timing was apt, and said so in an interview with TV Guide magazine. "It basically boils down to an entire nation gripped by fear, who ultimately chose to give up their civil rights and plunged the whole nation into war," he said. "I can't think of a better time to examine this history than now."

That was far too strong for Leslie Moonves, CBS's chief executive, who promptly fired him. No reasons were given, although politics and a strong desire not to fall foul of the Bush administration apparently had plenty to do with it.

Another person who does not find Hollywood particularly liberal these days is http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=399024

lchic - 06:40pm Apr 21, 2003 EST (# 11380 of 11500)
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SARS - Showalter everyone's beginning to get your point about telling 'truth' ... seems to be important wrt developing strategies that enable the survival of the Human Race. Puts nuclear toys in the waste bin.

the 'correct' number of SARS cases in Beijing was 339, not 37

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sars/story/0,13036,940372,00.html

lchic - 06:42pm Apr 21, 2003 EST (# 11381 of 11500)
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Were non-affected areas to impose a quarentine of 10 days for the incoming - it might keep them SARS free .... especially if they were Islands .... Australia has a chance to get on the SARS survival map.

lchic - 09:49pm Apr 21, 2003 EST (# 11382 of 11500)
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Sugar industry threatens to scupper WHO World:

The sugar industry in the US is threatening to bring the World Health Organisation to its knees by demanding that Congress end its funding unless the WHO scraps guidelines on healthy eating.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,940287,00.html

bbbuck - 10:47pm Apr 21, 2003 EST (# 11383 of 11500)

Thanks rubeburg, without U it would be nothing but lchickie.

Good job partner.

I know as a member of the science forum I am proud to call you friend and fellow forumite. How's the chip doing?

fredmoore - 11:04pm Apr 21, 2003 EST (# 11384 of 11500)

Buck ....

As Jackie Gleason would say "How sweeet it is!"

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