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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 - 03:18pm Jun 28, 2003 EST (# 12728 of 12746)
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The mystic who developed 'the statistic' so relied upon by Demming - would look to a measure, a table, a scale, a bench, a system .... against which progress could be measured.

http://www.yahoodi.com/peace/frogtale.html How apt the 'frog carrying scorpion across the river --- bitten mid-stream' fable seems to be in the ME.

Growing better futures : So many idle hands : guns (too many lose canons)

--- is the 'pick and shovel' a garden, and a day's work for a small wage - so out of season in the MEast?

lchic - 03:29pm Jun 28, 2003 EST (# 12729 of 12746)
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Incompetence costs http://www.guardian.co.uk/transport/Story/0,2763,986884,00.html

"If they can't manage their own pocketbook, how are they going to get to grips with action to improve their performance?"

gisterme - 10:45pm Jun 28, 2003 EST (# 12730 of 12746)

"...Growing better futures : So many idle hands : guns (too many lose canons)..."

Lchic, I could imagine losing a handgun...but a cannon? :-)

lchic - 02:02am Jun 29, 2003 EST (# 12731 of 12746)
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... has to be from a Comical Ali ad.,

" ... lose that CANON .... get an HP ....."

gisterme - 03:13am Jun 29, 2003 EST (# 12732 of 12746)

"...Retail makes the world go around ... the world go around ... :) ...:

How did our anscestors ever survive, lchic? The days and nights must have been much longer then. :-)

lchic - 05:03am Jun 29, 2003 EST (# 12733 of 12746)
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There are different sorts of time

Old Father had his --- held a cycle and sythe

When the day sands ran out ---- he said time to jive

home time, zone time, local time, and universal ----

splicing date line with it's forward and reversal

Of course today there's internet --- a web and weave without regret

Yesterday-Man, Today, Tomorrow ... when former wrongs are met with sorrow

Yet detour back to caves and apes ---- delousing parties in their breaks!

lchic - 05:28am Jun 29, 2003 EST (# 12734 of 12746)
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The Humanities camp says the interpersonal skills are the ones that enable imagination .... that's ideas ... to propagate ... and looking forwards - looking back ... it's ideas that differenciate humans from the herd.

Neglect and devaluation of the liberal arts lead to demoralisation and distress .... human interactions are the oil that smooths the wheels of progress .... helping folks ultimately to get ahead faster.

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Looking back where did 'ancestors' parallel modern-man ... what steps and stages are similar ... which different?

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Holding hands around the globe --- what experiences and learning should be common to all as they backpack and travel in 'gap' year?

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Not wishing to 'rain on his parade' so to speak .... one wonders what 'Alex of Boston', or indeed Sholwater for that matter, would regard as common curricula imperatives for the upcoming Global-Next-Generations.

In the educational sense what constitutes ' 'rites of passage' for a good life ' in the years to come?

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