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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 - 09:49am May 25, 2003 EST (# 11973 of 11992)
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Wow jorian-alias bbbuck alias fredmoore alias The Poster - alias George

Let's put all your posts together --- like a kite they'd fly .... so full of AIR

almarst2002 - 09:49am May 25, 2003 EST (# 11974 of 11992)

"Ms. Hathy likens negativity to a plague. "It makes us sick and keeps us sick," she said."

So did Mussoliny, Stalin and Hitler.

And, just like then, America is on a road to "universal happiness" no matter how many dead bodies it will have to take over.

lchic - 09:59am May 25, 2003 EST (# 11975 of 11992)
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Stress expert calls for special 'grumpiness banned' day

A stress management expert wants the US to have a special day when people are banned from being grumpy.

Janice Hathy from Kalamazoo, Michigan is calling it the Great American Grump Out.

She wants people to be fined for frowning and to wear special hats when they're caught being unhappy.

She's named May 22 as the special day.

This will be the first Grump Out day. Ms Hathy is hoping it will become an annual event.

NCBuy.com quotes her as saying grumpiness has become a "national epidemic" in the US.

She says some of the biggest culprits are .... http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_567545.html?menu=news.quirkies

lchic - 10:05am May 25, 2003 EST (# 11976 of 11992)
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talking point - live - How should the world respond to this new wave of suicide bombing? If intelligence gathering is our only protection against terrorist attacks how useful has it been?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/3050743.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/default.stm

jorian319 - 10:13am May 25, 2003 EST (# 11977 of 11992)

Gee, lchick alias Rshow, alias alarmist -

flying is something to aspire to.

Of course then you'd have to miss an hour of posting... no chance of that!

lchic - 10:14am May 25, 2003 EST (# 11978 of 11992)
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Letter from America - looting - Iraq

""Today the post-war burden of the United States, having come through the scourge of a war, is not, as was first imagined, to reorganise a civil society and put in place what they call a transitional government, the immediate, urgent task is to prevent Iraq's descending from chaos into anarchy.

I must say that whatever was allowed for in the very careful planning of the liberation of Iraq I don't believe even Secretary Rumsfeld had any conception of how huge and wildly ungovernable the looting would be.

The sheer wickedness of robbing a hospital, not only of its beds and blankets but of medical equipment, including life-saving devices for which the witless looters had no imaginable use.

I think the tolerable limit was reached last Monday when American marines responding to fire from an asylum broke the outer wall and plunged in, along with an army of looters, while at least 500 of the 800 incarcerated psychotics, rapists, murderers, dangerous schizophrenics and so on, tumbled out and are now at large in the city.

Why was all this allowed to happen? Because all the American forces had been ordered from the start not to shoot anyone but an obvious combatant.

Here's a definition: "looting - the pillage of valuables in time of war, according to the rules of war a crime punishable by instant execution but not universally followed" . . . . . .

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/letter_from_america/3039665.stm

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