Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html Please forward this message to anyone who can use it. war Preemption to Be Military Policy (international law, like so many things, is for other people) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22374-2002Jun9.html US Officials Backing Away from "Dirty" Bomb Assertions http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/06/10/attack/main511671.shtml http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/06/11/dirty.bomb.suspect/ http://www.news4jax.com/sh/news/florida/stories/news-florida-150618720020611-070604.html http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/12/politics/12TIME.html?pagewanted=print http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/06/12/padilla/print.html "the CIA's paramilitary wing is back ..." http://www.indyweek.com/durham/2002-06-05/cover.html documentary on recruiters for al-Qaeda http://cbc.ca/national/news/recruiters/ True Two-Way Multilingual Translation for the Combat Environment (you'll notice that one of the languages is Mandarin) http://www.darpa.mil/ito/research/babylon/babylon-public.ppt Command and Control Research Program http://www.dodccrp.org/ Who Rules Iran? http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15523 lessons from companies that got back in business quickly after September 11th http://www.coi.columbia.edu/pdf/kelly_stark_cri.pdf civil liberties and security Ridge: Bush Should Veto Cabinet-Level Homeland Security Office (May 30, 2002) http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0502/053002cd1.htm Department of Homeland Insecurity http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/08/opinion/08RICH.html http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2002/06/prados-j-06-07.html Could Terrorism Result in a Constitutional Dictator? http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20020607.html Terrorism Was Job 4 in Phoenix http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000040778jun10.story US Long Underestimated Qaeda's Scope, Officials Say ("lawmakers said they were astonished at the depth of the problems") http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/09/national/09MISS.html?pagewanted=print Terror Risk Cited for Cargo Carried on Passenger Jets (can someone send me a URL for this report when it becomes available?) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22431-2002Jun9.html the FBI's primitive computers http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/08/politics/08COMP.html White House Stressing Unorthodox in IT Security Fight (and I can't say that I blame them) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A27682-2002Jun10?language=printer more on the strange lack of hype over the Klez Microsoft worm http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/25657.html Israeli Device Detects Cell Phones Acting as Bugs (electronic countermeasures for the masses) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&ncid=581&e=4&u=/nm/20020611/tc_nm/tech_israel_netline_dc_1 another vague claim that terrorists use cryptography (hidden messages and code phrases are easy to believe but can't be regulated) http://www.msnbc.com/news/764107.asp European Police to Spy on All E-Mails http://www.observer.co.uk/libertywatch/story/0,1373,730132,00.html Britain is a free-fire zone for privacy invasion http://www.guardian.co.uk/humanrights/story/0,7369,731074,00.html British government promoting congestion tolls on the whole SE of the country (such systems needn't endanger privacy, but in practice they generally do) http://www.guardian.co.uk/transport/Story/0,2763,731081,00.html increasingly virulent reaction to immigrants in Britain -- and much of the West (their societies are so rigid that they can't absorb newcomers) http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4428539,00.html artist who made digital models of detention centers from smuggled-out drawings http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/10/arts/design/10ARTS.html?pagewanted=print UN Court Orders Reporter To Testify (not good) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28161-2002Jun10.html Missile Defense Testing Data to Be Kept Secret http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000040585jun09.story politics Fleischer: Bush Didn't Read Report (this is the sort of trivial exaggeration that Bush destroyed Gore over) http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-1798811,00.html GOP Monitoring Lobbyists' Politics (they've done similar things on a smaller scale to journalists and professors) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22406-2002Jun9.html White House, GAO Debate Vandalism (jerks) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34764-2002Jun11.html Texas Republican Party declares the United States a Christian nation http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/front/1445856 projection hall of fame! e.g., "the New York Times reporter who wrote ..." (in fact he wrote it as a summary of someone else's views) http://www.thbookservice.com/BookPage.asp?prod_cd=C5985&sour_cd=THE002702 everything else it takes less every year to announce a "genuinely exciting rock revolution" http://www.msnbc.com/news/763591.asp how the Internet revolutionized the used book business ("it's maybe 100 times what it was in 1995") http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/09/magazine/09BOOKS.html?pagewanted=print Mozilla 1.0 is out (the free open-source browser that Navigator 6.x is based on) http://zdnet.com.com/2102-1104-932847.html http://kirun.co.uk/web/whymoz/why.htm http://www.schnitzer.at/mozparty/ Linux Goes Mainstream http://www.businessweek.com/technology/tc_special/linux.htm Microsoft-Funded Think Tank Propagates Open-Source Lies http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25656.html "'there's nothing I'm not going to do', Ballmer says" (we believe you) http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/02_24/b3787001.htm Linking, a Fundamental Premise of the Web, Is Challenged http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/3435606.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp Enron, Andersen, Tyco, Adelphia, Merrill Lynch, WorldCom, and Global Crossing (and everyone else) http://www.economist.com/printedition/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=1165301 Institutional Economics (1931 journal article by John Commons, albeit hideously formatted) http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/commons/institutional.txt Nanotechnology's First Fruits http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2002/06/06/nanotch.DTL&type=printable http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/11/science/physical/11DATA.html?pagewanted=print Mobile Phones "Fuel Gorillas' Plight" http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2036000/2036217.stm Paths to Nuclear Dump Crisscross Iowa (another good example of data-driven activism from Environmental Working Group) http://www.dmregister.com/news/stories/c5903220/18420406.html http://www.ewg.org/ Everest Glacier Melting, UN Climbers Find (this sort of anecdote proves nothing by itself, but there's a lot of them) http://ens-news.com/ens/jun2002/2002-06-10-19.asp#anchor2 An Oil Company Proves Bush Wrong on Climate Change http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/5334 UN Atlas of the Oceans http://www.oceansatlas.org/ end
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