Wednesday, May 05, 2004

Bush Asks Congress for Additional War Funding (washingtonpost.com)

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Bush Asks Congress for Additional War Funding (washingtonpost.com) Sophisticated munitions, combat intensity and the high cost of an all-vol...

Google is indexing the full content of the scientific literature

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Nature Publishing Group: science journals, jobs and information From a UMLS list posting by Mike Cumments: Google appears to be getting ...
Tuesday, May 04, 2004

Canopy Economics

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Google Search: "canopy economics" I was thinking about economics the other day. I used to think of the economy in terms of plate...

Lord of the Flies at Abu Ghraib

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Iraq Prison Supervisors Face Army Reprimand (washingtonpost.com) Overall, the report portrays the prison as being run by a poorly led, under...

A War for Us, Fought by Them: Bring back the draft (NYT OpEd)

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The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Contributor: A War for Us, Fought by Them By WILLIAM BROYLES Jr. I can't really excerpt mea...
Monday, May 03, 2004

The fallen americans: not as much outrage as some would guess?

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Terrorism & Security | csmonitor.com The Christian Science Monitor reports that the effect of the photos was somewhat blunted because Ar...
Sunday, May 02, 2004

Guardian Unlimited | Fundagelism ....

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Guardian Unlimited | US elections 2004 | God save America ... The word 'fundagelism' has never appeared in the columns of this newsp...

Sharp Blue: Consilience & The Naturalistic Fallacy

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Sharp Blue: Consilience ... the naturalistic fallacy, the idea that what is natural is also moral. Great review -- I'd heard of consilie...

MSNBC - Rough Justice in Iraq - Janis Karpinski is NOT going quietly

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MSNBC - Rough Justice in Iraq More on the POW scandals. It seems that even a one star general can be dangerous when angry. Karpinski is ...

The Barbara Walters adoption game show

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Adoption Isn't A Game Show (washingtonpost.com) Tonight ABC's weekly news program '20/20' is to air Barbara Walters's pr...

American Express: Reliable service is hard to provide

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American Express Personal Finance, Business Solutions, and Travel Services It's very hard to provide reliable 24x7 service. American...
Saturday, May 01, 2004

The prisoner affair: The New Yorker (Hersh) provides extensive coverage

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The New Yorker: Fact One of the few publications to provide coverage. The question -- where does the buck stop? At Rumsfeld? At Bush? And wh...

The burning shame of the US media

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BBC NEWS | Americas | US media grapples with Iraq horrors But Howard Kurtz, media critic for the Washington Post, told the BBC that the Whit...
Friday, April 30, 2004

Understanding war crimes -- American GIs in Iraq

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The Memory Hole > Photos of Iraqis Being Abused by US Personnel War is brutalizing in the best of times. For the US military in Iraq this...
Wednesday, April 28, 2004

Defeating the pandemic of online news registration requirements

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The Washington Monthly More newspapers are requiring registration; it's becoming a real annoyance. It turns out there's a longst...