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: Wildflowers: The New York Loft Jazz Sessions war more reports from Jenin http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-268533,00.html http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000026946apr15.story http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000026964apr15.story http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/14/international/middleeast/14JENI.html http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56619-2002Apr15.html Israelis deny mass killings of people forced into camps http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=152053 http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2002/04/15/News/News.46973.html Debunking Six Common Israeli Myths http://electronicIntifada.net/coveragetrends/6myths.shtml cleaning up after suicide bombers http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/14/magazine/14ISRAEL.html Amnesty International news from Israel and the Occupied Territories http://web.amnesty.org/web/web.nsf/pages/IOT_news former Rhodesian soldier on the situation of Israeli soldiers http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/site.php3?newTemplate=NSArticle_NS&newDisplayURN=200204080004 IDF Restricts Media Access to West Bank Operations http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=151667&displayTypeCd=1&sideCd=1&contrassID=2 Israeli-Palestinian peace group http://www.alternativenews.org/ interview with Tariq Ali about Pakistan http://www.nypress.com/15/15/news&columns/publishing.cfm Rep. McKinney's Statement Today on Her Comments, the Administration http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/news/0402/12mckinneytext.html A Revolution in Warfare: Machines Are Filling In for Troops http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/16/science/16REMO.html Future Combat Systems http://www.darpa.mil/tto/programs/fcs.html http://www.bbn.com/networking/fcs.html http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/fcs.htm http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/61386_combat08.shtml The Falling Price of Precision http://www.janes.com/defence/air_forces/news/idr/idr020408_1_n.shtml several informative articles on the vindication of democracy in Venezuela (it's all for the best: we got to see who supports democracy and who doesn't) http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1929000/1929498.stm http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-267216,00.html http://www.narconews.com/threedays.html http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0415-07.htm http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56800-2002Apr15.html http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/16/international/americas/16DIPL.html?pagewanted=print http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/15/international/americas/15LATI.html http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/14/weekinreview/14WEIN.html http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/14/international/americas/14CND-VENEZ.html?pagewanted=print http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0216/cotts.php (last item) http://www.zmag.org/content/LatinAmerica/wilpertvenez.cfm http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2002/9316.htm civil liberties and security USA: Treatment of Prisoners Undermines Human Rights http://web.amnesty.org/ai.nsf/Index/AMR510542002?OpenDocument&of=COUNTRIES\USA http://commondreams.org/headlines02/0415-01.htm Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War (when our soldiers get captured we'll wish we had followed the rules ourselves) http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/91.htm http://www.irct.org/instruments/intlhumanlaw.htm A Summary of United Nations Agreements on Human Rights http://www.hrweb.org/legal/undocs.html Few Death Sentences or None Under Overhaul Proposed by Illinois Panel http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/16/national/16DEAT.html?pagewanted=print In the Name of Homeland Security, Telecom Firms Are Deluged With Subpoenas http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/story1a041002.html Viisage Awarded $7.5 Million Contract by State of Connecticut http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020412/nef007_1.html Federal Funding For Selected Surveillance Technologies http://freedom.gov/library/technology/surveillance.pdf Police to Identify Criminals From Their Breath http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/story.jsp?story=282734 Sunshine Law Sheds Little Light on Japanese Bureaucracy http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000026952apr15.story politics Corporate America's Trojan Horse in the States http://www.alecwatch.org/report.html http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemId=13146 Close House Races Go the Way of Rotary Phones, Newt Gingrich (tech promotes close elections, but first it supports slanted redistricting) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000026969apr15.column Now, the Local Races Are Awash in Cash http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41619-2002Apr12.html intellectual property discussion list on digital copyright topics affecting higher education http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/listserv.html Google Makes Scientology Infringement Demand Public http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/searchday.html jargon watch: read the wonderful quote beginning "The case could present ..." (it includes several techniques for defocusing the issue into pro- vs. anti-IP) http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/04/15/copyright_defense/ everything else IBM, Microsoft Plot Net Takeover http://www.zdnet.com/filters/printerfriendly/0,6061,2861123-92,00.html Merrill Lynch Stock Rating System Biased by Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest (includes a link to the attorney general's affidavit) http://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/2002/apr/apr08b_02.html SMS, Net Voting to Be Used in Local UK Elections in May (it's intrinsically hazardous and shouldn't be used when anything is at stake) http://www.computerworld.com.au/idg2.nsf/DocID_PrinterFriendly/E7E9EB212B30B99FCA256B960079B1B2?OpenDocument three more amusing stories about bone-headed user interfaces on cars http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/22.03.html#subj8 Google Web API's http://www.google.com/apis/ spontaneous networking among large numbers of small devices http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/innovation10502.asp Geographic Information Science, Boulder, 25-28 September 2002 http://www.giscience.org/ Oxfam's report on unlevel playing fields in "free trade" http://www.maketradefair.org/stylesheet.asp?file=03042002121618&cat=2&subcat=5&select=1 In the Landscape of Murcutt http://www.ArchitectureWeek.com/2001/0912/environment_1-1.html Environmental Groups, Navy Square Off on Sonar System http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48150-2002Apr14.html Researchers Find 3,600-Mile Ant Supercolony (does anyone have URL's for research papers etc on this?) http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/04/15/super.antcolonies.ap/ end
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