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: Orlando Cachaito Lopez war UN Aid Reaches Jenin, Where Relief Workers Report Widespread Devastation http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=3401&Cr=unrwa&Cr1= http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=286197 http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=285413 http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=271739 http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000027205apr16.story http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000027203apr16.story http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/13/opinion/13GORD.html West Bank Commuter Odyssey http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1899000/1899387.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1913000/1913607.stm more fallout from the failed coup in Venezuela (including some items whose credibility I can't evaluate) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/16/opinion/16KRUG.html http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000027187apr16.story http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/17/international/americas/17DIPL.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,685531,00.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62680-2002Apr16.html http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-041702usvenez.story http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/3077666.htm http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0417-01.htm http://www.intelbriefing.com/afi/afi020413a.htm http://www.spiescafe.com/wm/wmuscoups.htm http://www.narconews.com/rangel1.html US Cooking Up a Coup in Venezeula? (December 2001) http://www.examiner.com/opinion/default.jsp?story=OPhallinan1228w William Bennett Chases His Tail ("moral clarity" for him is an unclear way of saying "I'm right, you're wrong") http://slate.msn.com/?id=2064359&device= US Considers Renewing Military Ties to Indonesia (no no no -- the Indonesian Army's record of terrorism is world-class) http://www.inthesetimes.com/issue/26/12/news1.shtml prospective coup at the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,685123,00.html Dutch Cabinet Quits Over Srebrenica Massacre (it's hard to imagine governments in many other countries doing the same) http://www.msnbc.com/news/739331.asp A Texas Tale Exposes Drug War Abuses http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-000027122apr16.story Rich Firms, Poor Ideas on Towers Site http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/18/arts/design/18NOTE.html civil liberties and security Proposal Sets National Rules For State IDs http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62695-2002Apr16.html Police Use Cameras to Protect Cameras http://www.ananova.com/yournews/story/sm_567932.html eBay Toughens Up on Discussion Boards http://news.com.com/2100-1017-885574.html politics Stunning Depths of Government Collaboration With Enron Revealed http://www.seen.org/pages/press_releases/enronrelease0302.shtml "Enron has been behaving abominably around the world for nearly a decade" http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/editorial/outlook/1364196 How Microsoft Conquered Washington ("money of course, but lots of creative lobbying you don't know about") http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=207250 America's Dangerous Economic Mythologies (e.g., that Social Security is endangered) http://www.milkeninstitute.org/review/2002qtr1/pdf/2002qtr1.pdf Professor: Florida Legislature May Not Have Solved State's Election Problems http://www.napa.ufl.edu/2002news/electionreformtip.htm White House Learns the Hard Way That Oprah Winfrey Is Nobody's Fool (they constantly spread nasty stories about their opponents, e.g., Krugman) http://www.courier-journal.com/cjextra/columns/baye/baye.html more budget trickery http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020218&s=chait021802 http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/franknernest/archive/franknernest-20020416.html jargon watch: check the quote starting "I'm very proud of my service ..." (standard technique for defocusing the issue and reaching for abstract symbols) http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/1366641 jargon watch: flash -- conservatives not nasty enough http://www.townhall.com/columnists/phyllisschlafly/printps20020417.shtml jargon watch: Rush Limbaugh mocks the death of an environmental protester (I'm not sure it's even possible to be nastier than this) http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_041502/content/stack_d.guest.html everything else Wireless Data Blaster http://www.scientificamerican.com/2002/0502issue/0502leeper.html Microsoft Anti-GPL Fine Print Threatens Competition http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24885.html escalating war between Google and the link bombers http://news.com.com/2100-1023-883558.html "player-created additions to computer games" http://salon.com/tech/feature/2002/04/16/modding/print.html New York's Natural History Museum Pioneers Use of Internet 2 http://chronicle.com/free/2002/04/2002041701t.htm the presentation for Glenn Murcutt's Pritzker prize http://209.15.130.81/pritzker/index.htm Industrial Instrumentalization of Theories of Practice http://weber.ucsd.edu/~gbowker/ethnography/instrumentalizing.pdf Social Studies of Science, Milwaukee, 7-10 November 2002 http://www.lsu.edu/ssss/ Some Companies Profit When Workers Die Using Secret Life Insurance Policies http://199.97.97.16/contWriter/yhd7/2002/04/16/medic/7406-0019-pat_nytimes.html Ants Create United Europe http://www.nature.com/nsu/020415/020415-1.html http://www.antcolony.org/ http://www.insecta-inspecta.com/ants/argentine/ http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000027218apr16.story Argentine Ants in California Linked to Decline in Coastal Horned Lizards http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-02/uoc--poa022602.php Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster (manically researched, wildly entertaining, and now very cheap) http://www.labyrinthbooks.com/itemdetail.asp?iid=026133 The Arctic Meltdown: Quick Thaw Alarms Natives and Scientists http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/PrintStory.pl?document_id=134436644&zsection_id=268448413&slug=arctic15&date=20020415 Huge Hydrogen Stores Found Below Earth's Crust http://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/story.asp?id=%7B1F54AEED-A34B-411B-B95F-972AB119DD85%7D end
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