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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 - 10:55am Jan 29, 2003 EST (# 8308 of 8326)
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"Rappin' Rabbit" reminds us (in his Bunny Way) that even though people might seem to be very nice, we always keep our distance, and avoid contact with people we don't know well.

Better safe than sorry!

And from this lyric --- "Here’s a golden rule You can follow easily"

http://welcometobunnyland.com/HTM%20pages/Songs%20Don't%20Talk%20To%20Strangers.htm

lchic - 11:05am Jan 29, 2003 EST (# 8309 of 8326)
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"" ... the passion in his State of the Union speech came in the second half, when he turned to the war on terrorism and the confrontation with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, offering a muscular indictment of the Iraqi leader. "If this is not evil," Bush said after offering a listing of the way Hussein has tortured his own people, "then evil has no meaning."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58385-2003Jan29.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/print/nationpolitics/

lchic - 11:14am Jan 29, 2003 EST (# 8310 of 8326)
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"" a human who admits from the very start to being a betrayor of his own race

"" The two protagonists are soon given some information, though, in scenes whose dialogue could easily be swapped without much noticeable difference. In both films, the protagonist recieves a phone call.

Film "" opens with darkness and the words: "In the beginning, there was nothing."

"You wanted to find out what it is that makes us human." He points to his head. "Well, you're not going to find it here."

http://www.angelfire.com/film/boomstickreviews/hrepeats.html

lchic - 11:20am Jan 29, 2003 EST (# 8311 of 8326)
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Disarmament Diplomacy Issue No. 57, May 2001

Preventing Missile Proliferation

"" It is timely, then, to examine the current European debate on missile defence: their concerns over missile proliferation and how to respond to it, and their predilection for missile defence of their own national territory.

http://www.acronym.org.uk/dd/dd57/57smith.htm

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