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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 - 11:29am May 19, 2003 EST (# 11802 of 11812)
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2914969.stm

Hawks and doves

The intellectual battles being fought in Washington are not merely idle chatter.

Foreign policy experts on all sides of the debate are convinced that the shape of a new world order is being sketched out at the moment in Washington.

And those who win the intellectual debate often find themselves serving in the government.

So whatever new paradigm becomes dominant, it will influence the conduct of US foreign policy for years to come, not just in the Middle East, but across the world.

robkettenburg03 - 11:34am May 19, 2003 EST (# 11803 of 11812)

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lchic - 05:46pm May 19, 2003 EST (# 11804 of 11812)
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[SARS] "" Speaking at the World Health Assembly in Geneva today, he said that international law needed to be strong enough to ensure that when the WHO demanded action all countries would have to respond, to protect the global community.

"The emergence of Sars in developing and developed countries, in the northern and southern hemispheres, has confronted all nations with a new public health challenge," he said.

http://society.guardian.co.uk/publichealth/story/0,11098,959231,00.html

lchic - 05:52pm May 19, 2003 EST (# 11805 of 11812)
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1935 - GU archive OBIT - Lawrence | Arabia

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,959165,00.html

After recalling that they were closely associated in the campaign which opened in 1917-18 in Palestine and Syria, Lord Allenby said: "His co-operation was marked by the utmost loyalty and I never had anything but praise for his work, which, indeed, was invaluable throughout the campaign.

He was the mainspring of the Arab movement and knew their language, their manners and their mentality.

He shared with the Arabs their hardships and dangers. Among these desert raiders there was none who would not have willingly died for his chief. In fact not a few lost their lives in devotion to him and in defence of his person.

"He was a shy and retiring scholar, archaeologist, and philosopher swept by the tide of war in to a position undreamt of.

He had a genius for leadership.

Above all men he had no regard for ambition, but did his duty as he saw it."

lchic - 06:01pm May 19, 2003 EST (# 11806 of 11812)
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Property Prices - UK - out of reach - TABLE

Property prices are rising beyond the reach of the average worker ... offer mortgages of up to five times an individual's income.

The report is one of the first to look at the gap between average incomes and house prices.