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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 - 01:28am May 19, 2003 EST (# 11788 of 11803)
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Managing risk will become an increasingly important challenge for society in the years ahead.

http://www.oecdobserver.org/news/fullstory.php/aid/891/Risky_future.html

Prediction 1978

“By the end of the century, infectious diseases will no longer pose a significant threat to human beings, even in the poorest countries”. Sounds fantastical? Yet, this was a prediction that underlay an accord called “Health For All 2000” signed by UN members in 1978. Around 13 million people die every year from infectious diseases

lchic - 06:22am May 19, 2003 EST (# 11789 of 11803)
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"" "What's happened is we broke the beehive, but we didn't kill the bees and we certainly haven't killed the queen bee," jk said.

lchic - 06:26am May 19, 2003 EST (# 11790 of 11803)
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"" "The unemployed people here, the ones with no money and nothing to eat, will do anything."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/story/0,12469,958777,00.html

rshow55 - 06:33am May 19, 2003 EST (# 11791 of 11803)
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.

Same kind of problems are going wrong, again and again.

Decided to do some thinking after 11759-63 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.0Oo3a2r1amv.0@.f28e622/13371

Problems in the early 1950's are problems still - except some wrong conclusions have been drawn since.

Good postings on the board since 11763 - some distinguished - and some entertaining - almost as funny as

All the President's Girls By NORA EPHRON http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/18/opinion/18EPHR.html

but not quite.

Thirteen Days was an interesting movie, related to the same period Ephron speaks of, and a little less funny.

lchic - 07:18am May 19, 2003 EST (# 11792 of 11803)
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http://www.newline.com/sites/13days/

lchic - 07:26am May 19, 2003 EST (# 11793 of 11803)
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Three BIGGYs of the Muslim Religion have spoken out .... these explosive happenings are against the teachings of the Koran ..... at last they've found a voice.

lchic - 07:48am May 19, 2003 EST (# 11794 of 11803)
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Today has an air of Déjà Vu re Komodo .... didn't George go through that routine once before ...

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