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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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rshow55 - 08:43am Jul 8, 2003 EST (# 12889 of 12904)
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.

Mazza: http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.P4FmbJabna1.12890@.f28e622/14558

Meaningless posts?

12863 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.P4FmbJabna1.12890@.f28e622/14539 discusses a big ticket issue - A Final Push for the Bedeviled, Beloved Osprey By LESLIE WAYNE http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/business/06CHOP.html - - - and I'm not sure I see what is "meaningless" thereafter.

12876 http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.P4FmbJabna1.12890@.f28e622/14552 deals with a meaninful issue:

Bush Claim on Iraq Had Flawed Origin, White House Says By DAVID E. SANGER http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/08/international/worldspecial/08PREX.html

lchic - 10:24am Jul 8, 2003 EST (# 12890 of 12904)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Poor countries get poorer http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3052918.stmMost of the countries that were poorer in 2000 than in 1990 are in sub-Saharan Africa.

The UNDP says landlocked countries generally do worse than coastal ones, as do those which are tied to a single export commodity.

Its report includes its annual human development index, measuring countries' progress on key social and economic indicators.

Ranked according to their national levels of poverty, illiteracy, unemployment and life expectancy, Sweden tops the list of rich countries, with the US at the bottom.

nb : Sweden, with a lower per capita income than the US, has on average more functionally literate adults and fewer people living in poverty.

lchic - 10:25am Jul 8, 2003 EST (# 12891 of 12904)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3052918.stm

rshow55 - 10:28am Jul 8, 2003 EST (# 12892 of 12904)
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.

World poverty fight 'in danger' By Alex Kirby BBC News Online environment correspondent

The rich world is running dangerously short of time to redeem its promises on helping the poor, the United Nations says. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3052918.stm

lchic - 03:22pm Jul 8, 2003 EST (# 12893 of 12904)
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Brain division http://www.guardian.co.uk/flash/0,5860,993397,00.html

lchic - 03:30pm Jul 8, 2003 EST (# 12894 of 12904)
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GAGged - African Wimmin are dying!

"" African health leaders, lawyers, women's advocates call for action to save women's lives from unsafe abortion

Participants in Africa's first regional consultation on unsafe abortion speak out against the Global Gag Rule, saying it impedes efforts to reduce unwanted pregnancy and unsafe abortion.

http://www.africaaction.org/docs03/gag0303.htm

lchic - 03:37pm Jul 8, 2003 EST (# 12895 of 12904)
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It's said that the USA is 'acting out' the policies of it's own right-right-wing-'religious' in the 3rd World .... implementing policies against the world's poorest-neediest women that would NOT be acceptable to the broadsweep of wimmin within the USA.

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