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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 - 04:36am Oct 26, 2002 EST (# 5234 of 5256)
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Why YES!!! Here it is......

kalter.rauch "Space Exploration" 7/28/02 7:15am

lchic - 10:33am Oct 26, 2002 EST (# 5235 of 5256)
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post 61 is a long way down the list .... of predominently 'Johnson-moniker' postings ...

lchic - 10:44am Oct 26, 2002 EST (# 5236 of 5256)
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Ronald Takaki. Being American in a Changing World.

Summary: Ronald Takaki

Being American in a Changing World

We're all minorities," says Ronald Takaki, multicultural expert and renowned scholar of American history. In this face-paced, provocative dialogue, Takaki takes us back to our nation's founding principles - to the Declaration of Independence and the inalienable rights guaranteed by our Constitution - and implores us to remember that "the Declaration of Independence…belongs to all of us…as members of humanity."

"These principles," says Takaki, "need to guide us as we enter this Twenty-First Century of immense ethnic and racial diversity within the United States…a diversity that's connected to diversity in the world."

Throughout this intriguing interview, Takaki draws insightfully from Christian theology and C.S. Lewis' controversial Screwtape Letters, as we reexamine how some of the leading thinkers in our nation's history - Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, Lincoln, Truman, MacArthur, Martin Luther King, and others - wrestled with the critical challenges and choices of their time. We plunge back into major turning points of the Civil War and World War II, including the unleashing of the first atomic bomb at Hiroshima. As Americans, currently facing unprecedented challenges in our world, the need to pause and reflect critically has never been greater, urges Takaki.

New Dimensions No 2929

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/newdim/stories/s710780.htm
http://www.usc.edu/dept/spectrum/94-95season/takaki.html
http://www.calstate.edu/AcadSen/acadconf-F2001/takaki.shtml
http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/ND94/takaki.html
http://www.flint.lib.mi.us/race01/takaki.html

lchic - 10:53am Oct 26, 2002 EST (# 5237 of 5256)
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Getting to truth

Patricia Cornwell, the multi-millionaire American author, spent two years and more than £2m on the trail of Jack the Ripper who was

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/story.jsp?story=345957

Walter Sickert, the noted impressionist painter, wit and storyteller

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Illustrates how determination, framing searching questions, following through and having adequate funding can lead to truth - a CENTURY later.

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