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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 - 09:46am Oct 20, 2002 EST (# 5084 of 5113)
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Bali - Australia

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rshow55 - 10:08am Oct 20, 2002 EST (# 5085 of 5113)
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.

This is important.

Iraq Announces Amnesty for Its Prisoners By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 8:32 a.m. ET http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Iraq.html

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- The Iraqi government announced an amnesty Sunday for all Iraqi prisoners

robkettenburg01 - 11:24am Oct 20, 2002 EST (# 5086 of 5113)

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lchic - 03:18pm Oct 20, 2002 EST (# 5087 of 5113)
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^ does this guy have spam three meals a day?

lchic - 03:27pm Oct 20, 2002 EST (# 5088 of 5113)
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EU NICEtreaty Ireland

"" Ireland opened the door today to the EU for nearly a hundred million Eastern Europeans by voting to endorse the Nice Treaty at the second attempt. Millions who used to live under communism before 1989 from the Baltic to the Black Sea now have the right to join one of the richest clubs on the planet. Approval by the Irish has cleared the last roadblock to their ambitions to enter the EU.

Romano Prodi, the European Commission President, said Ireland had given a "green light" to EU enlargement.

http://www.observer.co.uk/europe/story/0,11363,815799,00.html

lchic - 08:50pm Oct 20, 2002 EST (# 5089 of 5113)
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Empathy (1)

n : understanding and entering into another's feelings

http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=empathy%20

Emapthy Nussbaum

"Thinking, Feeling, and Moral Imagination;" Martha C. Nussbaum

To illustrate her point, Professor Nussbaum convincingly demonstrates the positive role empathy played in two cases resulting in opinions she fairly described

Spiegelman's MAUS, a comic-book genre depiction of his father's survival of Nazi Germany, produces the Aristotelian version of empathy advocated by Nussbaum

Nussbaum ... celebrates "the value of humanity as an end in itself," she encourages empathy ...

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