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 [F] New York Times on the Web Forums  / Science  /

    Missile Defense

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 - 09:41pm May 24, 2003 EST (# 11920 of 11966)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

This problem of "everybody's business being nobody's business" was a key problem - maybe the key problem | Showalter

Meaning ?

There are things that NEED to be done, that SHOULD be done, that HAVE to be done ..... yet those who should be doing them, those with the means ... are failing to recognise the problem - thus failing to work towards the solutions necessary to .. say 'upgrade' existance.

Begs the question - what needs to be done, what needs to be worked towards, what are the basics that will upgrade humanity ...

... Energy, food, clothing, shelter, and security ?

lchic - 09:59pm May 24, 2003 EST (# 11921 of 11966)
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Love on the Dole (1941) Drama 1 hrs. 29 min.

Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, Mary Merrall

Filmed in the North Country of England, this is a film noir set in the 1930s as a family struggles with poverty and unemployment. Depressing and realistic, it portrays the lengths to which a family can go in order to survive., though there is some humor interlaced to keep the bleakness under control. The beautiful, sepia-tinted photography enhances the portrayals, which are excellent. ~ Tana Hobart

http://entertainment.msn.com/movies/movie.aspx?m=118929

The Grapes of Wrath

John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath is arguably the director's greatest movie, and the rare Hollywood film superior to its literary source (a view shared by the novel's author, John Steinbeck). Indeed, it is the movie that sums up the impact of the Great Depression, at least on rural America, better than any other film of its time (and there were hundreds that tried, by everyone from Frank Capra to Preston Sturges). From the opening shot of Tom Joad's return to the ruined land where he grew up, the movie is a study of people whose dreams and hopes wither away like the drought-stricken crops. Yet Ford managed to make a movie that wasn't utterly pessimistic, despite its story and setting: the performers and script availed him of indomitable characters, convincingly portrayed, with the result that even the most cynical viewers were persuaded of Ford's artistic vision. Henry Fonda, who'd been an up-and-coming leading man, solidified his image as an upright hero with an almost mystical bent in his portrayal of Tom Joad; Jane Darwell became the archetypal rural matriarch; and even the bit players, such as Ward Bond and Grant Mitchell, got relatively rare opportunities to play against their usual types as beneficent characters. The movie became a strange case of fiction transcending fact, as Ford's images (photographed by the great cinematographer Gregg Toland) became more representative of the period than most documentary photography. Countless filmmakers have quoted from The Grapes of Wrath (there's a very funny audio-visual reference in Close Encounters of the Third Kind), and Ford himself never made a more compelling social statement despite several attempts (The Sun Shines Bright, Sergeant Rutledge, and others) over the next 20 years. ~ Bruce Eder

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Both reviews refer to photograph - a document, a record of the GREAT DEPRESSION ... markets were down, people were down, nations were down -- but why?

lchic - 10:04pm May 24, 2003 EST (# 11922 of 11966)
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Quagmire - Krugman

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/24/opinion/24KRUG.html?n=Top%2fOpinion%2fEditorials%20and%20Op%2dEd

"" Though talk of deflation fills the air, most of that talk is subtly but significantly off point. The immediate danger isn't deflation per se; it's the risk that the world's major economies will find themselves trapped in an economic quagmire. Deflation can be both a symptom of an economy sinking into the muck, and a reason why it sinks even deeper, but it's usually a lagging indicator. The crucial question is whether we'll stumble into the swamp in the first place — and the risks look uncomfortably high.

lchic - 10:11pm May 24, 2003 EST (# 11923 of 11966)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Every new generation of people (in advanced economies), like to distinguish themselves from former generations by re-inventing the wheels of fashion .... slighty altering the spin of a skirt, opting for dots or stripes after years of 'plain' ....

Catering to the perceived needs of the tweenies, teenies, twenties ... is a production push button for an economy ... creating employment.

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Unfortunately many areas of the world are still into trying to achieve the basics --- but not succeeding.

Why so?

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