Here are some more URL's. Thanks to everyone who contributed. RRE home page: http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/rre.html war US Troops Focus on Border's Caves to Seek bin Laden (does anyone have URL's on the military's terror-war learning curve?) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/28/international/asia/28AFGH.html?pagewanted=print War on Al Qaeda Funds Stalled (does anyone have a URL for this UN report?) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A9219-2002Aug28?language=printer Reserve Duty May Grow (what are all the called-up reserves doing?) http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/nation/3946432.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp indictments against people alleged to be involved with terrorists http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/uskoubriti82802ind.pdf http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/usujaama82802ind.pdf Report: Saudi Royal Family Paid Bin Laden Not to Attack Kingdom (rereported from a Sunday Times article that requires obnoxious registration) http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=201288&contrassID=1&subContrassID=8&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y Cheney vs. Scowcroft: How to Duck the Arguments Against Attacking Iraq (the idea of war based on secret evidence is freaking out even warlike people) http://slate.msn.com/?id=2070189&device= Federalist Society's role in the attack on the Constitution's war-powers clause (requires subscription) http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/08/28/invasion/print.html The War Powers Act of 1973 http://www.cs.indiana.edu/statecraft/warpow.html on the claim that the NYT warped its news coverage of GOP war critics (it's a pattern: if you don't like the facts, accuse someone of inventing them) http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/17/judis-j.html http://villagevoice.com/issues/0235/cotts.php http://tampatrib.com/News/MGA65V9295D.html http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/zinni.html Bush Needs Congressional Approval Before Declaring War on Iraq http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20020830.html the conflicts between Kurds and Turks as another obstacle to war in Iraq http://www.ataa.org/spotlight/s_aug13.html DEA Spearheads 15-Country Drug Raid (if true, this is amazing for its sheer magnitude, no matter what the DEA says) http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/08/25/MN57974.DTL&type=printable jargon watch: claims NYT describes Israeli but not Arab policies as "hard-line" (I did a Nexis search since 1999 and found this claim to be deceptive at best) http://www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2002/08/26/do2601.xml Anthrax: In the Lab, Suspicion Spreads http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dsci%2Dmicro28aug28005046 http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/terrorism/july-dec02/anthrax_8-29.html Bush Administration OKs Report Making Nanotech a Terror War Priority (I'll assume that means something -- there's a link to the PDF) http://www.smalltimes.com/print_doc.cfm?doc_id=4461 InfowarCon, Washington, 4-5 September 2002 http://www.misti.com/08/iw02nl26inf.html manual for kamikaze pilots http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,778587,00.html Senate Report on Pre-9/11 Failures Tells of Bungling at FBI http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/28/politics/28TERR.html?pagewanted=print photo essay on September 11th http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/shattered/ civil liberties and security Newsmagazines Downplayed Opposition Voices After Sept. 11th, Researchers Find http://www.washington.edu/newsroom/news/2002archive/08-02archive/k081902a.html Poll Shows Free Speech Support Down (it's still counterintuitive that freedom is stronger than dictatorship) http://www.sacbee.com/24hour/nation/story/516894p-4102578c.html arrest warrant for the passenger who brought a gun on board a plane http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/crim/uskeller82602cmp.pdf Chinese Dissident Use of the Internet and Beijing's Counter-Strategies http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1543/ Canada Preps Internet Snoopers Charter (can anyone send URL's for further documents on this, and analyses etc?) http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26840.html Microsoft in Fresh Digital Certificate Flaw http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/26859.html Liberty Architecture and Security Overviews http://research.sun.com/Liberty/ "advanced wireless safety and location systems with GPS and sensor techs" http://www.digitalangel.net/ Direct Marketing Association Backs Lobby Against Mexican Opt-In Bill http://www.dmnews.com/cgi-bin/artprevbot.cgi?article_id=21417 Europe's Tough Privacy Rules Spill Over to US http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/local/3966648.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp A. Philip Randolph: The Labor Leader Who Helped Clear a Path for Civil Rights http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Doe%2Dmarx28aug28 corruption Lack of Controls, Pressure to Grow Set Stage for WorldCom Financial Deceptions http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A9244-2002Aug28?language=printer Two Ex-WorldCom Executives Indicted for Securities Fraud http://www.law.com/jsp/printerfriendly.jsp?c=LawArticle&t=PrinterFriendlyArticle&cid=1030343767724 http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/worldcom/ussullivan82802ind.pdf Ebbers' IPO Share Allocations Probed (it's about time to investigate the whole history of new-economy IPO's) http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1028186073595&p=1012571727088 http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/worldcom/ssbhfsc83002wexecs.pdf more on the Salomon-WorldCom IPO deals (of course, if this were reported in 1999 it would seem perfectly normal) http://slate.msn.com/?id=2070225 more on the strange story of Harken and Harvard http://www.thedailyenron.com/documents/20020829084246-58995.asp Army Secretary Tom White Played Key Role in Covering Up Enron Losses (requires subscription) http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2002/08/29/white/print.html Last Task at Andersen: Turning Out the Lights (it wasn't just a few bad apples) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/30/business/30AUDI.html Chefs Cook Up Gourmet "Fakes", or, Why We Have the Wall Street Journal (a meaningless stat, though: "seafood consumption is up nearly a pound ...") http://www.msnbc.com/news/800751.asp politics another book of lies, this time from the egregious Sean Hannity (for background: www.dailyhowler.com, click on the wolf, and search "Hannity") http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20020826.html one of many pundits passing along the Washington Times' slander of the NEA (yes, it's the respected, intellectual, professorial George Will) http://www.suntimes.com/output/will/cst-edt-geo25.html campaigns of slander are flooding the nation to near-complete silence (the operatives lie and lie, and the media is too intimidated to report it) http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh082802.shtml jargon watch: amazing "Crossfire" transcript filled with illogic and falsehoods (e.g., study the false accusations of "name-calling") http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0208/20/cf.00.html someone checked every footnote in Ann Coulter's favorite chapter of "Slander" (the results are like a car wreck -- how can anyone stand to think like that?) http://slannder.homestead.com/files/footnoteschap2one.html one of the better among the millions of political blogs that just sprouted up (suddenly you have blogs linking blogs linking to blogs -- good, I think) http://rittenhouse.blogspot.com/ The Budget and Economic Outlook: An Update http://www.cbo.gov/execsum.cfm?index=3735&from=1&file=ExecSummary.htm http://www.cbpp.org/8-29-02bud.pdf http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/30/opinion/30KRUG.html Dallas Ousts Edison, Says It Performs No Better Than School District (school privatization isn't an educational policy -- it's a political strategy) http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0823edison-ON.html "little evidence to show that thinning will prevent catastrophic fires" (no matter -- the simple fact that liberals disagree will convince some people) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/27/science/earth/27FIRE.html?pagewanted=print logic-free op-ed blaming liberals for not regulating scooters on sidewalks (isn't it the idea of *conservatism* that you don't regulate things?) http://www.sfbg.com/36/48/x_oped.html severely lame right-wing rap songs (if you lack talent, follow fashion) http://www.coradpress.com/audio.htm intellectual property Free/Libre and Open Source Software: Survey and Study (open source is just good engineering, so of course gov'ts should specify it) http://www.infonomics.nl/FLOSS/report/ on ICANN's .org decision http://www.icannwatch.org/article.php?sid=927 Report: CD Sales Further Decline (of course, another title could be "Report: Corporate Music Gets Even Worse") http://www.newsday.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=sns%2Dap%2Dmusic%2Dsales0826aug26§ion=%2Fbusiness%2Fnationworld%2Fwire new claims that the music industry is cheating artists on royalties (if the artists could build a sales-tracking mechanism, what would it be like?) http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dfi%2Dmusic26aug26 "charging that the patent office's databases are riddled with errors, ..." http://www.gcn.com/cgi-bin/udt/im.display.printable?client.id=gcndaily2&story.id=19799 everything else award winner for most annoying user interface (fill in a couple of the form entries and prepare to become annoyed) http://yourtrip.octa.net/busrail/tripplan/yourtrip_tripplan.asp debate on the "spam accusations and due process" message (the underlying problem is great fogginess about the nature and role of ISP's) http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000023.html http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/22.22.html#subj16 new spam filtering method http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/bogofilter/ La Sociedad Digital (Spanish and Portugese language digital society portal) http://www.sociedaddigital.org/ E-Democracy, Pittsburgh, 20-21 September 2002 http://communityconnections.heinz.cmu.edu/insites/about_news.jsp#conference nanotech start-ups ("science risk is the problem") http://www.herring.com/insider/2002/08/tinyventures082602.html Oxfam report on the destruction caused by the North's $1b/day farm subsidies (it's simple: if you subsidize our farmers and not theirs, theirs starve) http://www.maketradefair.com/stylesheet.asp?file=03042002121618&cat=2&subcat=6&select=1 WTO Paves Way for Sanctions on US ("because of tax breaks given to US corporations operating abroad") http://news.findlaw.com/business/s/20020830/tradeeuusadc.html http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/108_arb_e.pdf amusing article about the current business fashion for cultivating "talent" (one more thing that can be overdone -- in reality, people work in contexts) http://www.gladwell.com/2002/2002_07_22_a_talent.htm Theban Mapping Project http://www.thebanmappingproject.com/ What Makes Geckos Stick? Mystery Solved (they use van der Waals forces, which is really cool) http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0827GeckoSecret-ON.html http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22van+der+Waals+forces%22 Extremophiles, Naples, 22-26 September 2002 http://www.extremophiles2002.it/ end
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