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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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kalter.rauch - 06:21am Aug 21, 2002 EST (# 3862 of 3888)
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lchic 8/21/02 2:29am

Why does ONE WOMAN become a WORLD HEADLINE ?

Because Civilized Countries have a soft spot for women, as opposed to the barbaric and draconian moslems???

This isn't the first case, as you well know, of a woman symbolizing the abject horror of life in places like Burma (aka Myanmar), or the Woman hidden behind the burqaa veil, or the woman in Pakistan raped because she walked down the street with the "wrong man", etc......

Short of napalming the local dictators, the only solution I can think of is one which these 3rd, 4th...nth-world pits are vulnerable to...and that is SHAME. Rotten countries like to present a facade of reasonableness in diplomatic circles. In any official contacts, these places must be treated with contempt and covered intensely by the media.

lchic - 07:48am Aug 21, 2002 EST (# 3863 of 3888)

Monica found it tough when the Repubs insisted she be made a world headline!

lchic - 08:01am Aug 21, 2002 EST (# 3864 of 3888)

Showalter - this will interest you - NOW

http://www2b.abc.net.au/alienunderworld/

lay a thousand nanobes next to each other and that's equiv to the thickness of a human hair

improved microscopes enable insights to smaller 'life' forms

PaulDavis asks is this the bridge between life and non-life

Nanobes in blood - Finish Guy - sees them as the cause of kidney stones, arthritus, certain heart conditions

The Queenland researcher had a paper rejected by Nature Dr Philippa Uwins, Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis - University of Queensland

The Finish Guy had his papers rejected (also had to defend himself re being called a fraud - he did - but it took him out of circulation for funding, status and credentials for some time) Dr Olavi Kajander, Department of Biochemistry - University of Kuopio, Finland

Some science research journal refusal notes said

" we won't publish anything controvesial!"

lchic - 08:27am Aug 21, 2002 EST (# 3865 of 3888)

http://www.uq.edu.au/nanoworld/uwins.html
http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/nanobes/nanopaper.html

lchic - 09:16am Aug 21, 2002 EST (# 3866 of 3888)

GU thread looks at Washinton Think Tanks http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?50@@.2cbe6e01/0

http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,777100,00.html

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mazza9 - 11:23am Aug 21, 2002 EST (# 3867 of 3888)
"Quae cum ita sunt" Caesar's Gallic Commentaries

lchic:

The USA tries but doesn't always succeed. The Peace Corp, the foreign aid, the acceptance of foreign students in our school systems are just some of the ways that we do try. A fellow Toastmaster and Church member is a retired kindergarten teacher. She belongs to our State Department's "Peope to People" program. She travels the world and offers an extended hand to those in need. Our club helped her to polish a fund raising speech which she has presented around our synod. She fashioned this speech after a trip to Sierra Leone with our Bishop. I am proud of her efforts because she is raising money to rebuild the churchs in Sierra Leone and help the people establish a society and economy again after 10 + years of civil war.

What have you done to help your fellow man? Talk is cheap! Mouthing off at this forum isn't enough! Explain what your country is doing, if anything. I'd like to hear it.

LouMazza

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