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: Heroes and Horses: Corridos from the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands war Pentagon Seeks Own Foreign Aid Power http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10900-2002Apr7.html How the "War on Terror" Should Be Reported by Noam Chomsky http://www.freespeech.org/fsitv/ramfiles/chomsky012302.ram Martyrdom Is For Lesser Men http://www.iranian.com/Opinion/2002/April/Martyr/ A Sophisticated Strain of Anthrax (hmm) http://www.msnbc.com/news/735231.asp#investigations Old Files Tell a New Story of US Role in Angolan War http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/31/international/africa/31ANGO.html?pagewanted=print Israel and Occupied Territories: ICRC Restricts Its Movements in the West Bank http://www.icrc.org/icrceng.nsf/c1256212004ce24e4125621200524882/437ee7bb00589fe0c1256b92004cd82f?OpenDocument more on the millenarians who are trying to cause Armageddon in the Middle East http://www.middleeastbooks.com/html/books/halsell-f.html Is There a Solution? http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15280 civil liberties and security Secret Evidence Permitted http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-0204060086apr06.story The Trouble with the Tribunals http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15284 the weak case against John Lindh http://www.msnbc.com/news/735202.asp Removal or Destruction of Federal Depository Library Documents http://www.arl.org/info/frn/gov/Susman.html Monitoring of E-Mails in UK Offices to Be Banned http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3IHT5EOZC&live=true&useoverridetemplate=ZZZ99ZVV70C&tagid=ZZZPB7GUA0C&subheading=UK Mining Official Data, Helsinki, 19-20 August 2002 http://ecmlpkdd.cs.helsinki.fi/mod-2002.html methods for tracing denial-of-service attacks http://www.cs.umass.edu/~micah/pubs/pubs.html http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/park00effectiveness.html http://rfc.net/rfc2267.html Review of "Bringing Down the Great Wall" by Fang Lizhi http://www.mindspring.com/~kimall/Reviews/greatwall.html article about the Milosevic trial in the Hague http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15291 hey dude, the plants and animals don't want you to blow stuff up! (but if the violence isn't aimed at people then it's not terrorism) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/07/magazine/07ELF.html?pagewanted=all intellectual property Act Now to Stop BPDG From Hobbling Digital TV http://www.eff.org/effector/HTML/effect15.10.html EFF blog on the Broadcast Protection Discussion Group http://bpdg.blogs.eff.org/ HDTV Advocates Join Copy-Protection Fray http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/04/08/digitaltv-usat.htm notes on copy-protection and the HDTV debacle (scroll down) http://www.pcmag.com/print_article/0,3048,a=24658,00.asp Smithsonian Folkways Recordings http://www.folkways.si.edu/ scandal compensation of US corporate CEO's (some interesting numbers) http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/business/20020307_EXECUTIVEPAY/sbn_PAYY_01.pdf widespread pattern of misleading financial reports that benefit executives http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/07/business/yourmoney/07CASH.html?pagewanted=all What Was the Heart of Enron Keeps Shrinking http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/06/business/06ENRO.html?pagewanted=all everything else The Wall Street Journal's Most Recent Smear Campaign (it's weird, but no weirder than many others over the years) http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/04/06/pulitzers/print.html why did "The Skeptical Environmentalist" get a free ride from the media? (surely not because there's a proven market for convenient nonsense) http://www.cjr.org/year/02/2/bakerbook.asp FCC Official Says "Unthinkable" Media Deals Possible (notice the dysfunctional economic notion of "efficiencies") http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=26743436 persistence of bubble conditions in the economy http://www.morganstanley.com/GEFdata/digests/20020118-fri.html critical review of "Digital Diploma Mills" (The Nation, you'll recall, commissioned DDM but then refused to publish it) http://thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020422&s=brier Google's Toughest Search Is For a Business Model (quality versus advertising) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/08/technology/ebusiness/08GOOG.html?pagewanted=all The V-2 Usability Rants: Panasonic P209iS i-Mode Phone (lots of amusing rants on this site among the insiderish weariness) http://www.v-2.org/articles/suspectdevice002.html "here at Google, we're about to start offering an API to our search-engine" http://www.ruby-talk.org/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/37623 UN "digital divide" conference, Geneva, 6-8 May 2002 http://www.webforce.org/conference/ controversy over school testing http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/07/magazine/07TESTING.html?pagewanted=all idiotic media attack on legitimate sociologists (e.g., presenting early results of an extensive study as the whole thing) http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/gma/goodmorningamerica/gma020404reporter_studies_taxpayer.html draw your own map of the United States with various data layers http://nationalatlas.gov/natlas/natlasstart.asp Earth Has More Worms Than People -- By Far http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000025113apr08.story end
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