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Missile Defense

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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rshow55 - 12:44pm Nov 5, 2002 EST (# 5476 of 5482)
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 looks good - and I hope it works as Mexico's Jorge G. Castañeda suggests it will.

U.S. Refines Resolution on Iraq as Hopes Rise By JULIA PRESTON http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/05/international/middleeast/05NATI.html

If it does, everyone involved will deserve a lot of credit - and it may be possible to build on the experience and the relationships crafted to solve other problems.

lunarchick - 12:46pm Nov 5, 2002 EST (# 5477 of 5482)

Social History in Dress may follow political environments

Fashion explosions 50s | Dior | A-line silhouette and the H-line dress

Fashion 60's | mass manufacture | yearly colour
Fashion 70's | LordsLadiesLace | next brown
Fashion 80s 90s | Waif look | starvation
Fashion 2000s | 'anything goes' | individualism

So what will American Women be wearing tomorrow ... not a return to 'The Dimple' !?!

lunarchick - 12:55pm Nov 5, 2002 EST (# 5478 of 5482)

MeccaCola set to 'oust' Coke

Sad news for the US economy ... an edict issued that MeccaCola (a new Middle East product) is to be drunk in preference to Coke - the 'real thing' - surreal.

WAR of the WORLDS - so this is where it's at!

lunarchick - 01:15pm Nov 5, 2002 EST (# 5479 of 5482)

India is looking to reduce tarrifs with ASIAN trading block ... Australia looked but got cooked ... by the Malasian Chef.
China tarrif-reduction agreements currently dominate Asia.

http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1419955

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