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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 - 10:00pm Jan 14, 2003 EST (# 7648 of 7660)
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Pakistan - headlines -

http://www.dawn.com/2003/01/14/

lchic - 01:21am Jan 15, 2003 EST (# 7649 of 7660)
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Where a geographic entity to ask the question who and where do we employ when making national gross purchases the answer would be revealing but not unexpected.

Check those 'made in' labels, those 'components from' and 'including imported'.

The argument for globalism - which on the surface if fine - is that via specialisation and trade people obtain best value.

The theory is that the advanced economies train-up their labour to work in advanced or specialised areas.

This may happen to some extent, but, the job creation and fudging of figures, trashing of humanity for political cudos has to be examined.

If the major trading zones of China can bring together every part, wigit, supply requirement to feed the factory .... and labour rates are only 5-10% of elsewhere ... then what's the long term outcome ... how should this concentration of facilition be regarded?

One factor to consider when goods enter ports is - does this item have a functional utility value? What should be being produced locally? How can local labour be trained and deployed to give home nationals jobs, dignity, security and let them feel 'good' about themselves?

lchic - 07:10am Jan 15, 2003 EST (# 7650 of 7660)
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Creative Thinking - gender - linear - holistic

Showalter, there was an audio item on creativity.

Said the women are holistic thinkers, whereas men are dot to dot linear thinkers.

Women's BIG PICTURE approach has served to place too few of them in the lists of the all time greats of science.

The audio seemed to suggest a need to bat from linear to holistic and back working the data.

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Raises the question -

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"Should Foreign Affairs / International Relations top positions be 'jointly-shared' by male and female?"

lchic - 07:26am Jan 15, 2003 EST (# 7651 of 7660)
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ELECTRONIC SEMINAR ON WHOLENESS

ALBERT EINSTEIN

"A human being is part of the Whole ...

http://www.newciv.org/ISSS_Primer/seminarp.html

lchic - 07:29am Jan 15, 2003 EST (# 7652 of 7660)
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Culture - http://www.serpentfd.org/humanevolution.html

wanderer85us - 07:32am Jan 15, 2003 EST (# 7653 of 7660)
Bush is stupid.

"It is vital that the woman and the man be an integral part of a larger community where the epiphanic aspects of love can be shared. "

LOL

almarst2002 - 07:35am Jan 15, 2003 EST (# 7654 of 7660)

The United States of America has gone mad - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,482-543296,00.html

lchic - 07:45am Jan 15, 2003 EST (# 7655 of 7660)
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“But will people be killed, Daddy?”

“Nobody you know, darling. Just foreign people.”

“Can I watch it on television?”

“Only if Mr Bush says you can.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,482-543296,00.html

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