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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 - 12:26am Aug 31, 2002 EST (# 4025 of 4045)

Following a boom in prison construction and an increase in the numbers of people being incarcerated for non-violent crimes, there were 791,600 black men in American prisons and county jails in 2000, and only 603,032 enrolled in colleges and universities, according to the Justice Policy Institute, which favours alternatives to imprisonment.

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lchic - 01:19am Aug 31, 2002 EST (# 4026 of 4045)

Cheney stuff

of the revolving door between government and big business
http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=2471


http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/janbtucker/humnrgts.htm


"Be honest and above board in all dealings and truthful in reporting profits and losses," Cheney said at a hotel across the street from bankrupt Enron Corp.

"The foundation of any economy is confidence," Cheney said.

Neither Cheney nor Cornyn took questions, and Cheney didn't mention his tenure as chairman and chief executive of Dallas-based Halliburton Co.

The construction and oil field services company's accounting practices are under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Cheney was Halliburton's CEO from 1995 to 2000.

Cheney touted President Bush's proposals to crack down on corporate malfeasance with tougher prison sentences
http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/072002/tex_cheney.shtml

http://www.nexusmagazine.com/bushcheney.html

lchic - 01:56am Aug 31, 2002 EST (# 4027 of 4045)

Creativity (1)

No ________ asset is at once so prized and yet so poorly managed as imagination and creativity of a ________'s people.
In today's competitive environment ________ who understand how to manage creativity, how to organize for creative results and who willingly implement new ideas will triumph.

(fill the blanks with NATION|entity|company)

http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/0/37CE1D7EA55C00A5802567CA0057D5E6/
http://goldsea.com/Personalities/Kaojohn/kaojohn.html
http://www.businessweek.com/1996/43/b349852.htm

moreCreativity
http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/0/E766DC2FD99D7CA9802568470062DF62/

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