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3 Hours Over 4 Nights With 1 Fear |
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| Topic: War on Terrorism |
9:00 am EDT, Jul 26, 2004 |
Fear rules. Fear rocks. Fear is a weapon of mass distraction. 3 Hours Over 4 Nights With 1 Fear |
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You Could Call Swimming a Cure-All |
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| Topic: Health and Wellness |
8:47 am EDT, Jul 26, 2004 |
43 percent of New York City elementary-school children are overweight. You Could Call Swimming a Cure-All |
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Tiny Agency's Analysis Is Better Than Big Rivals' |
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| Topic: Politics and Law |
8:42 am EDT, Jul 26, 2004 |
"They are a curmudgeonlike group who delight in being different and getting to the body of something and not caring what other people think." Tiny Agency's Analysis Is Better Than Big Rivals' |
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Federal Retirement Crisis |
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| Topic: Society |
8:33 am EDT, Jul 26, 2004 |
More than 50 percent of all federal employees are within five years of retirement, including 70 percent of all senior managers. Federal Retirement Crisis |
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| Topic: War on Terrorism |
5:12 pm EDT, Jul 25, 2004 |
You may not be interested in war,
but war is interested in you. -- Trotsky |
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Mastering the Art of the Swipe |
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| Topic: Technology |
9:59 am EDT, Jul 25, 2004 |
Like the heads in a VCR, the ones in card readers can wear out. After all, they are reading cards at an extraordinary rate. The busiest turnstile in the subway system, turnstile No. 10 in the middle array by the escalators in the main entrance to the subway below Grand Central Terminal, reads a whopping 236,000 cards a month. I thought that was a neat factoid. I can imagine New Yorkers saying to themselves, "I know that turnstile!" The article is rich in trivia about heavy-duty magnetic card readers and the millions of people who (ab)use them. Mastering the Art of the Swipe |
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Saddam's people are winning the war -- Scott Ritter |
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| Topic: International Relations |
9:36 am EDT, Jul 25, 2004 |
The battle for Iraq's sovereign future is a battle for the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people. As things stand, it appears that victory will go to the side most in tune with the reality of the Iraqi society of today: the leaders of the anti-US resistance. The most visible symbol of Saddam's decision to embrace Islam was his order to add the words "God Is Great" to the Iraqi flag. There is no elegant solution to our Iraqi debacle. It is no longer a question of winning but rather of mitigating defeat. Saddam's people are winning the war -- Scott Ritter |
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'My Beef With Big Media' by Ted Turner |
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| Topic: Media |
6:50 pm EDT, Jul 24, 2004 |
Today, the only way for media companies to survive is to own everything up and down the media chain -- from broadcast and cable networks to the sitcoms, movies, and news broadcasts you see on those stations; to the production studios that make them; to the cable, satellite, and broadcast systems that bring the programs to your television set; to the Web sites you visit to read about those programs; to the way you log on to the Internet to view those pages. Big media today wants to own the faucet, pipeline, water, and the reservoir. The rain clouds come next. 'My Beef With Big Media' by Ted Turner |
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Honorable Commission, Toothless Report |
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| Topic: War on Terrorism |
4:19 pm EDT, Jul 24, 2004 |
So what now? News coverage of the commission's recommendations has focused on the organizational improvements. There are other changes that would help more. First, we need not only a more powerful person at the top of the intelligence community, but also more capable people throughout the agencies. Second, the analysts need real independence. Even more important than any bureaucratic suggestions is the report's cogent discussion of who the enemy is and what strategies we need in the fight. Unanimity has its value, but so do debate and dissent in a democracy facing a crisis. Richard Clarke offers his commentary on the 9/11 report. Honorable Commission, Toothless Report |
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Return of the 'Chicken Hawks' |
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| Topic: Politics and Law |
4:02 pm EDT, Jul 24, 2004 |
The general trump-it-all insult that the antiwar crowd aims at the pro-war crowd these days is a neat little portmanteau term that manages to impute, at once, cowardice, ignorance, selfishness, bloodlust (as long as the blood spills from others' veins) and hypocrisy: "chicken hawk." "Chicken hawk" is interesting as an insult because it is such a pure example of reactionary thinking or, rather, the substitution of reaction for thinking. It is the sort of thing you say when you need to stop the argument in its tracks because you simply can't bear to address its realities. Return of the 'Chicken Hawks' |
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