Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html Pick Hit: Tom McRae war Invisible War on Terror Accelerates Worldwide http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000001651jan07.story "why militant Islamicists in Central Asia aren't going to go away" http://www.newyorker.com/FACT/?020114fa_FACT Dubyaman cartoon http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articlelist.asp?catkey=920152620&daysactive=365 war news links http://globalsecurity.org/military/ops/enduring-freedom-links.htm liberal war opinion http://www.alternet.org/issues/index.html?IssueAreaID=26 Media Education Foundation (video of interviews about the war with liberal leaders) http://mediaed.sitepassport.net/btf large collection of left-wing war resources http://www.utoronto.ca/csus/pm/ civil liberties and security FBI Reorganizes to Combat Terrorism and Cybercrime http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZ8CNAY6WC Political Dissent Can Bring Federal Agents to Door http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0108/p1s4-usju.html Airlines Test Out "Clean" Lists http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0108/p1s2-woeu.html National ID: Beware What You Wish For http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-000001978jan09.story resources on national ID cards http://www.epic.org/privacy/id_cards/ Sensor Networks, San Diego, 22 February 2002 http://www.soe.ucsd.edu/Research_Review/ Trade Organization Says Anthrax Treatment Kills Memory Cards http://www.msnbc.com/news/683805.asp New Virus First to Infect Shockwave Flash (we are living in the Stone Age) http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-8410601.html "researcher claims hacker could steal funds from Citibank's c2it.com" http://www.msnbc.com/news/683646.asp how to make an electromagnetic bomb (though I don't know how credible the source is) http://popularmechanics.com/science/military/2001/9/e-bomb/print.phtml Homeland Security, Homeland Profits http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=1108 US May Store, Not Destroy, Warheads Cut in Accord (their word means nothing) http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2002/01/09/national/NUCLEAR09.htm freedom of information The Day Ashcroft Censored Freedom of Information http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/01/06/ED125108.DTL Bush's attempt to keep his gubernatorial records secret despite Texas Law http://www.citizen.org/litigation/briefs/FOIAGovtSec/articles.cfm?ID=6638 An Executive Order Richard Nixon Would Love http://historynewsnetwork.org/articles/article.html?id=494 the fall of Enron Enron Executives Who Dumped Stock Were Heavy Donors to Bush http://www.public-i.org/story_01_010902.htm Enron Reps Met Six Times with Cheney or His Staff http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20020108/pl/utilities_enron_cheney_dc_1.html Republican leader Marc Enron is lobbying to relax clean air standards http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20020108/pl/air_pollution_1.html judge in Enron shareholders' case held Enron stock http://www5.law.com/lawcom/displayid.cfm?statename=TX&docnum=103868&table=news&flag=full everything else "soon after he took over, Ashcroft dismantled the campaign-finance task force" (this brief passage is the only mention I've seen of a remarkable development) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/08/nyregion/08TORR.html?pagewanted=all The Boeing Boondoggle http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/corp-focus/2002/000099.html "as usual, Microsoft software is at every point in the connection" http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,49558,00.html "what lengths Microsoft will go to promote its products" http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2102244,00.html International Multiconferences in Computer Science, Las Vegas, 24-27 June 2002 http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences/ Twenty Factors That Will Change PCs in 2002 (most of these are plausible, though 2002 is optimistic for many of them) http://asia.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/12/25/pc.changes.idg/ New York Times Digital Launches New Efforts to Glean Consumer Data http://www.internetnews.com/IAR/article/0,,12_950221,00.html DoubleClick Exits Profile-Based Targeting (targeted banner ads aren't profitable if nobody ever clicks on a banner ad) http://www.internetnews.com/IAR/article/0,,12_951331,00.html http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-8407125.html Northern Light is ending free advertiser-supported searches http://www.businesstoday.com/business/business/web01092002.htm Bill Aims at Protecting Right to Copy Digital Files http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000001793jan08.story http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000001455jan06.story tool that automatically refuses mail from badly configured sites (this includes almost all spam) http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/sauce/ Empowering the Customer or Empowering the Telco? http://cookreport.com/empowering.shtml new ideas about last-mile networking http://lw.pennnet.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=Articles&Subsection=Display&ARTICLE_ID=120252 The Race and Ethnicity Book Review Discussion List (interesting Web site model) http://lilt.ilstu.edu/gmklass/pos334/Default.htm Globalvision News Network (stories from dozens of sources worldwide) http://gvnews.net/ Federal Judges Applying Tougher Standards on Expert Testimony http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/nwlink.cgi?ACG=ZZZVM5MI2WC "if you use new technology while it's still buggy, you're an innovator too" http://www.techreview.com/articles/schrage0102.asp AOL denies that its spam filters rejected admissions messages from Harvard http://chronicle.com/free/2002/01/2002010701t.htm alleged mistakes in the amateurish "Harry Potter" movie http://www.movie-mistakes.com/film.php?filmid=1654 Internet Scam Had Its Attractions (annals of stupidity) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000002146jan09.story "healthy people deliberately setting out to rid themselves of their limbs" (now this is weird) http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2000/12/elliott.htm attempts to create ancient beer recipes (more interesting than it sounds) http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=883706 tracking the movements of sharks http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000001569jan07.story "North America is facing a widespread crisis due to its shrinking biodiversity" http://www.cec.org/news/details/index.cfm?varlan=english&ID=2441&year=2002 http://www.cec.org/pubs_docs/documents/index.cfm?varlan=english&ID=629 Drawn-Out Tahoe Case May Be a Watershed on Land Use http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000001646jan07.story Forest Service Employees for Environmental Responsibility http://www.afseee.org/ end
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