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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 - 06:20pm Jan 18, 2003 EST (# 7794 of 7800)
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See this - OBSERVER LINK

http://www.observer.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,864320,00.html

lchic - 06:32pm Jan 18, 2003 EST (# 7795 of 7800)
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BRIDGE - Plane - NY - death - 21 years ago

The Air Florida plane crashed because of a series of foolish mistakes. It was a catastrophe in which many lost their lives and a few survived only to return to lives forever altered.

Now, two decades later, the paths of those who made it out of the water show there is no formula for what to do with the relief, guilt, joy and anger that follows such a catastrophe. The family members of those killed say, too, that there is no blueprint for the grief one faces after such a sudden, public loss. It is a long process, they say, to accept that terrible piece of information - that everything about their loved one is now in the past - and to fit the finality of that fact into the rest of their own lives.

http://www.observer.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,873018,00.html

lchic - 06:37pm Jan 18, 2003 EST (# 7796 of 7800)
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Even the megapower needs friends

Despite its awesome military might, the United States is stretched and vulnerable. That is Tony Blair's opportunity

In the history of our planet, never before has there been a power so apparently massive as the United States. Her stock market is worth more than the rest of the world's bourses put together. Her spending on military force is greater than the combined weight of the next nine largest powers put together. Her language - or perhaps I should say her version of our language - is the nearest thing to a global tongue; the dollar is the nearest thing to a global currency. No previous imperium, from the Ancient Greeks to the nineteenth-century British, has been so dominant. .... AND YET .... ...... ......... The very strength of the United States accounts for much of her weakness. Her dependence on the oil that keeps the wheels of that power turning renders her incapable of .....

http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,873008,00.html

lchic - 06:40pm Jan 18, 2003 EST (# 7797 of 7800)
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The world's greatest power cannot impose a peace settlement on Israel-Palestine. Washington is suffering from imperial overstretch. ....

Showalter - Do you agree with the 'overstretch' comment

Or

Is it a matter of the USA having a more human and fuller understanding of the needs and wants of people ... and then from that standpoint assisting the implementation of programs that will work to improve the economic and human rights of the disadvantaged people.

lchic - 06:43pm Jan 18, 2003 EST (# 7798 of 7800)
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Bulldozer - SHARON - Shady Sharon

"" Sharon, who barely a month ago was predicting a massive and historic mandate that he believed would allow him finally to crush the Palestinians, must be wondering how all this came to pass.

The answer has as much to do with Sharon's personal history - as Israel's most famous and maverick soldier - as it does with a personality that has never wavered from the view that he is inevitably right.

http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,873229,00.html

lchic - 06:48pm Jan 18, 2003 EST (# 7799 of 7800)
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Museum Madison - interesting museums your way Showalter ... trust you are now enlightened :)

http://www.tagyerit.com/madison.htm

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Museum+madison&btnG=Google+Search

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