Columbia shuttle breaks up over Texas
Seven astronauts aboard space shuttle
Saturday, February 1, 2003 Posted: 10:36 AM EST (1536 GMT)
JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, Houston, Texas (CNN) -- The space shuttle Columbia,
with seven astronauts aboard, broke up as it descended over central Texas
Saturday
The Bushies also want to make a push toward routinely using plutonium-based
power packs on board for space exploration.
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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Michael Perelman wrote:
The Bushies also want to make a push toward routinely using plutonium-based
power packs on board for space exploration.
Quite a few years ago there was a substantial article in _Nation_ on the
dangers of plutonium in space.
Carrol
Yes, Karl Grossman has done great work on that danger.
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 11:50:55AM -0600, Carrol Cox wrote:
Michael Perelman wrote:
The Bushies also want to make a push toward routinely using plutonium-based
power packs on board for space exploration.
Quite a few years
How many more Cassini lauunches are on tap?
Seth
Re: Re: The human cost of budget cuts
by Carrol Cox
01 February 2003
Michael Perelman wrote:
The Bushies also want to make a push toward routinely using plutonium-based
power packs on board for space exploration.
Quite a few years ago there
SHARING THE HARVEST OF THE SKIES: OUTER SPACE COMMERCIALIZATION AND THIRD
WORLD DEVELOPMENT
Kim Alaine Rathman
This paper will investigate the new ethical challenges to international law
and policy-making that the commercialization of outer space activities present
to the nations of the world.
Two items from US Senator Russ Feingold:
Feingold Introduces Competition in Radio and Concert Industries
Act
http://feingold.senate.gov/~feingold/releases/03/01/2003128910.html
January 28, 2003
Washington, D.C. U.S. Senator Russ Feingold today introduced the
Competition in Radio and
But the truth is nearly two of every five of the approximately 540,000 Gulf
War vets are on disability as a result of illnesses they believe they
sustained during that conflict.
It has also been reported in several places that more US veterans of
the war in Vietnam have committed suicide than
The Navy is looking for a few good men -- to work as morticians.
http://www.hotjobs.com/cgi-bin/job-show?TEMPLATE=/htdocs/job-show.htmlJ__PINDEX=J956129UUP__SOURCE=HJCP__SOURCE_SPECIFIC=HJCBOLD_KEYWORDS=navy+morticiansBOLD_OPENTAG=%3Cspan+class%3D%22bold-opentag%22%3EBOLD_CLOSETAG=%3C%2Fspan%3E
NYT January 29, 2003
The Question of Irradiated Beef in Lunchrooms
By MARIAN BURROS
IRRADIATED beef may be coming soon to your local school cafeteria.
The farm bill that was passed last May directs the Agriculture
Department to buy irradiated beef for the federal school lunch
program. It will
Title: RE: [PEN-L:34269] Irradiated Beef in School Lunches
Eric Schlosser, in his FAST FOOD NATION, has one of the best points against irradiation of meat: he quotes someone saying that irradiation simply allows the meat-packers to avoid dealing with the root causes of E. Coli and the like,
Title: Re: Irradiated Beef in School
Lunches
Eric Schlosser, in his
FAST FOOD NATION, has one of the best points against irradiation of
meat: he quotes someone saying that irradiation simply allows the
meat-packers to avoid dealing with the root causes of E. Coli and the
like, i.e., the crowded
My pasting of the address may have been wrong. I found it at
http://www.buzzflash.com/
just search for Navy.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is there a government source to verify these figures? I have mentioned
them in class, but students want some verification.
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Of course, the Rumsfeld line is that space warfare is the key to the
future military dominance.
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Of course, the Rumsfeld line is that space warfare is the key to the
future military dominance.
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Rumsfeld is Darth Vader without the costume.
Ian
On 1/30/03, andie nachgeborenen
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When I was clerking on the federal district
court in Chicago, there was an insurance
dispute . . . whether the insurer would pay
under a director's and officer's liability
policy for the defense of a firm that had
pleaded guilty to
CounterPunch
February 1, 2003
Report From Istanbul
We Won't Be US Soldiers: Turkish Citizens Say No to the War on Iraq
by BEHZAD YAGHAMAIAN
The opposition to war has been slowly building up in Turkey. There have
been many demonstrations and anti-war meetings across the country. Turks
oppose
positional goods problem redux
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 17:16:51 -0800
Cut the strings
The new grassroots politics needs more democracy - not more political strongmen
Naomi Klein
Saturday February 1, 2003
The Guardian
The key word at this year's World Social Forum, held this week in
Cannabis economy brings in £11bn
Cannabis smokers just want to stay on the sofa and snack, spending hours engrossed in
home entertainment. Red Bull
and smoothies, 'Munchie' snacks such as Mars bars and Haribo jellies. Pizza chains.
Video stores. Games consoles.
Multichannel TV. And what scares
War 'would mean biggest oil shock ever'
Faisal Islam, economics correspondent
Sunday February 2, 2003
The Observer
The world will suffer a bigger oil crisis than that during the Arab-Israeli conflict
of 1973 if the US declares war
on Iraq, according to leading US investment bank Goldman Sachs.
I got a B- in an ag. econ. policy class in grad school for making such a
suggestion on the test. The prof. was otherwise a free marketeer, but not
with respect to pot.
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL
From Andrew D. Coates, MD, member Physicians for Social Responsibility
This message was sent to local email lists and listservs in upstate NY.
From talking with UPJ today, evidently there will be further negotiations
with
NYC on Monday.
At negotiations on Friday the NYPD offered either a march
Turkey moving toward allowing U.S. troops in for Iraq, but
government still worried
Sat Feb 1, 1:09 PM ET
By JAMES C. HELICKE, Associated Press Writer
ISTANBUL, Turkey - Turkey's leaders have taken a huge step toward
allowing U.S. soldiers in Turkey for a possible attack on
neighboring Iraq, but
U.S. Troops in Germany Told to Pack for Turkey
By Karl Vick and Bradley Graham
Washington Post Foreign Service
Friday, January 31, 2003; Page A19
ISTANBUL, Jan. 30 -- U.S. troops in Germany that would form part
of a northern front in a war against Iraq have received orders to
pack up and
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