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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 - 01:16pm May 16, 2003 EST (# 11717 of 11722)
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How long before Saudi bulldozes mecca?

lchic - 01:31pm May 16, 2003 EST (# 11718 of 11722)
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Zimbabwe de-industrialisation

Jowa, the Chamber of Commerce economist, says Zimbabwe, which once had one of the strongest economies in Africa, is actually undergoing a process of de-industrialisation.

http://www.africaonline.com/site/Articles/1,3,52991.jsp

lchic - 01:40pm May 16, 2003 EST (# 11719 of 11722)
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Saudi | value systems

Any thought given to placing a value on the expats lost to Saudi indifference?

There's the value of a deceased's lost

education, job and work experience and skills ...

working with Saudis to develop their training and thinking

lchic - 02:44pm May 16, 2003 EST (# 11720 of 11722)
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If the USA is said to be more interested in the short-term, rather than longer-term, aspects of war.

Why so much objection to the UN moving in and putting Iraq

back

together again?

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