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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 - 10:44am Jul 11, 2003 EST (# 12948 of 12954)
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Key words into 'search' here

http://www.johnkay.com/ give pertinent results.

Note his 'suprise' regarding the impressive roles he's held :)

http://www.johnkay.com/about/bio.html

lchic - 10:45am Jul 11, 2003 EST (# 12949 of 12954)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Key words into 'search' here

http://www.johnkay.com/ give pertinent results.

Note his 'surprise' regarding the impressive roles he's held :)

http://www.johnkay.com/about/bio.html

lchic - 10:48am Jul 11, 2003 EST (# 12950 of 12954)
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Showalter on Energy

http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.pbEDb8Tao8T.627628@.f28e622/14613

http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.pbEDb8Tao8T.627628@.f28e622/14615

http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?7@13.pbEDb8Tao8T.627628@.f28e622/14616

http://forums.nytimes.com/webin/WebX?8@13.pbEDb8Tao8T.627628@.f28e622/14617

lchic - 11:08am Jul 11, 2003 EST (# 12951 of 12954)
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Richard POSNER (author) "Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy”

"" ... argues strongly in this book for the notion that democracy has little to do with rational deliberation or citizen involvement, but is instead merely a matter of competition between self-interested elites for the temporary favour of an apathetic and ignorant electorate.

As a description of how America's democracy actually works, this is certainly plausible, but Mr Posner goes beyond this description to argue that this is the best that can be expected from the system and those who use it. That is a disconcertingly scornful view for a judge to take of the American public.

More troubling still is Mr Posner's view that judges should impose their own policy choices on a case whenever ambiguity in the law gives them the discretion to do so. Many judges do this, though nearly all deny it, justifying their decisions instead by reference to laws and court precedents. Mr Posner thinks this is usually legal flim-flammery, and that frank judicial activism would be better. Few people, on the right or the left, would swallow this.

lchic - 11:12am Jul 11, 2003 EST (# 12952 of 12954)
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Howard DEAN - 'any senior official who mislead or withheld information (from writer of) State of the Union January Address ' should resign.

? special prosecutor's investigation

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