As I read the article it is broadly consistent with information
available at the Science Museum in London about the Gulf Stream being
dependent on a cold deep counter-current flowing southwards.
(Although I am a bit uneasy about the idea of it joining the Pacific
around the
bottom of Africa (!) )
Title: Strait-Talk
Several months ago I circulated a note to some people regarding a friend of mine, John Locke, who was working on completing his master’s project that involved making a documentary that examines the bias of perceptions (exacerbated by the media, academics, governments etc.) be
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n03/sen_01_.html
LRB | Vol. 26 No. 3 dated 5 February 2004 | Amartya Sen
Why We Should Preserve the Spotted Owl
Amartya Sen
Today's NY Times reports on a controversial death penalty case in Texas:
NY Times, February 4, 2004
Insanity Issue Lingers as Texas Execution Is Set
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL
In one of the more extraordinary cases in the nation's leading death
penalty state, a murder defendant with a long history of men
Wed 2.04.04| The Perils of Deregulation
The California energy crisis, which jacked up
electricity prices and produced rolling blackouts, was
blamed at the time on restrictive environmental
standards and other red herrings. Resource economist
Eugene Coyle argues that deregulation was the root
cause
Writing in the LA Times on February 3, 2004, Robert Scheer said:
"The central sickness of human history is the notion that the ends justify
the means, and it has disastrously gripped political movements from left to
right and from the secular to the religious. It is axiomatic that immoral
means wil
I am looking for articles showing a rise in disability claims by workers in
the US. I seem to remember one from the NYT arguing that this was a from
of disguised unemployment. Any help appreciated.
Michael Yates
I have long been concerned about the amount of time that it takes for the
Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) to process claims. During the 106th and
107th Congresses, I supported legislation to decrease the amount of time that it
takes the VBA to process claims. In 1999, there were 309,0
While I was sitting in a courtroom yesterday waiting for my case to come up,
I heard the judge talking to a presumably unemployed woman. She felt that
she was unjustifiably overcharged by the electricity corporation for power
bills, and she would go broke if she did not pay the bills, but she would
[too funny]
Rumsfeld Sees "Wrongdoing" in Boeing Tanker Talks
By Jim Wolf
Reuters
Wednesday, February 4, 2004; 3:56 PM
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Wednesday that U.S. Air Force
efforts to acquire Boeing Co. 767 aircraft as refueling tankers appeared
to have been tainted by "wr
For some good information on the abrupt climate change theory I recomment
the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute's website:
http://www.whoi.edu/institutes/occi/currenttopics/ct_abruptclimate.htm .
Peter Hollings
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From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ch
Actually, the most recent figures suggest more than 9 million people (about
0.14% of the world population) are held in corrective institutions
throughout the world, mostly as pre-trial detainees (remand prisoners) or
having been convicted or sentenced. In the last five years, the prison
population
The 10 Worst Corporations of 2003
By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
2003 was not a year of garden variety corporate wrongdoing. No, the
sheer variety, reach and intricacy of corporate schemes, scandal and
crimes was spellbinding. Not an easy year to pick the 10 worst
companies, for sure.
Bu
Michael:
You want "Laid-Off Workers Swelling the Cost of Disability Pay," written
by Louis Uchitelle, and published on the first page of The New York Times
on September 1, 2002.
Joel Blau
MICHAEL YATES wrote:
I am looking for articles showing a rise in disability claims by workers
Michael:
You want "Laid-Off Workers Swelling the Cost of Disability Pay," written
by Louis Uchitelle, and published on the first page of The New York Times
on September 1, 2002.
Joel Blau
MICHAEL YATES wrote:
I am looking for articles showing a rise in disability claims by workers
Title: letter to Kucinich
I faxed this
letter to Dennis Kucinich today at (216) 251-5974 and sent it by
snail mail as well. I doubt it'll do any good, but it did help ease
my feeling like a Christian Scientist with appendicitis, to borrow
from Tom Lehrer.
Dan
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Februar
http://www.feer.com
Japan can live with a weaker dollar but it has a vested interest in
keeping U.S. interest rates low
By Tom Holland/HONG KONG
Issue cover-dated February 12, 2004
FINANCE MINISTERS and central-bank bosses from the Group of Seven, the
world's leading industrialized countries, mee
Jurriaan Bendien wrote:
All the same, the number of prisoners in the US just keeps rising. All you
can really conclude is that Americans love to meet out punishment, even
although behavioural and criminological research shows that punishment is a
strategy that is less likely to cause behavioural c
Eubulides posted from FEER:
"Japan can live with a weaker dollar but it has a vested interest in keeping
U.S. interest rates low"
Oh my, the apprehensive, nee cowardly, Euro-bourgeoisie. I'm sure the U.S.
hegemon is quaking in its boots. First, eager, more than eager, to help
Anglo-American death
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