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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 - 11:53pm May 18, 2003 EST (# 11776 of 11791)
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Same as yours George ?

lchic - 11:55pm May 18, 2003 EST (# 11777 of 11791)
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Liberia leader 'should step down'

The head of the United Nations refugee agency, Ruud Lubbers, has ended a tour of West Africa by appealing for the Liberian leader, Charles Taylor, to step down.

In what correspondents describe as unusually blunt remarks, Mr Lubbers said

the Liberian president was the source and very embodiment of the region's problems.

The UN has already applied sanctions to Charles Taylor's administration for

human rights abuses, gun running and other trafficking with militias in Guinea, Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone.

United States had a particular responsibility towards Liberia since the country was founded by freed North American slaves who had returned to Africa.

lchic - 12:03am May 19, 2003 EST (# 11778 of 11791)
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"" In Africa, ploughmen have for decades been turning up the kind of mass graves that lately caused such outrage in Iraq. The Democratic Republic of Congo, in particular, is that kind of place. Yesterday, things were only looking marginally calmer in the east of the country, after an inter-ethnic killing spree. Last month's ceasefire agreement between President Joseph Kabila and rebel groups is shaky at best.

British ministers have been trying to bring the continent back into the world's gaze. In relation to eastern Congo, Tony Blair told parliament on April 9:

"Even with public attention naturally focused on Iraq, we continue to be as active as we possibly can on this issue."

Yet is the activity enough? And is it the right activity? .... http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,958738,00.html

lchic - 12:08am May 19, 2003 EST (# 11779 of 11791)
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The idea behind Xxxxx's treatment at the hands of the townspeople was that if you present yourself to others as a gift, then that is dangerous.

"The power that this gives people over the individual corrupts them," he said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3038663.stm

bbbuck - 12:12am May 19, 2003 EST (# 11780 of 11791)

The komodo does not live in the Congo. It travelled there once, and was thrown out.

There wasn't enough activity for it.

The komodo was heard saying "I do not like those congoese".

That's a powerful stance to take, Mr. Komodo.

lchic - 12:44am May 19, 2003 EST (# 11781 of 11791)
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bet you've never been out of 'Texas' - in your mind's eye, buckie

bbbuck - 12:49am May 19, 2003 EST (# 11782 of 11791)

I once biked from Princeville to Wyoming.

No komodos were seen.

Apparently there is no komodo season in this area.

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