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Russia Warns of Preemptive Strikes (Los
Angeles Times)
Russia Warns of Preemptive Strikes (Los
Angeles Times)
09/09/2004 05:42 AMLos Angeles Times - MOSCOW — Russia's top military commander
threatened Wednesday to launch preemptive strikes on terrorist bases
"in any region of the world," raising questions about how far Moscow
will go to hunt down suspected Chechen separatists believed
responsible for killing more than 400 people in three terrorist
attacks in the last two weeks.
U.S., Some Ranchers Clash Over Mad Cow
Tests (Los Angeles Times)
U.S., Some Ranchers Clash Over Mad Cow
Tests (Los Angeles Times)
05/24/2004 06:19 AMLos Angeles Times - GRANITE CITY, Ill. — John Tarpoff knows his
demand is illogical.
Powell Tries to Mollify Russia on
Georgia Ties (Los Angeles Times)
Powell Tries to Mollify Russia on
Georgia Ties (Los Angeles Times)
01/27/2004 10:24 AMLos Angeles Times - MOSCOW — Seeking to soothe fears of growing
rivalry along Russia's borders with former Soviet republics, U.S.
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell on Monday said the U.S. has no
plans to create military bases in Georgia.
During School Siege, Russia Took
Captives in Chechnya (Los Angeles Times)
During School Siege, Russia Took
Captives in Chechnya (Los Angeles Times)
09/07/2004 04:45 AMLos Angeles Times - ZNAMENSKOYE, Russia — It was 6 a.m. when
Russian soldiers hoisted themselves over the wall, crashed through the
window and broke down the front door. Their quarries were still
asleep.
Tests Are History at This High School
(Los Angeles Times)
Tests Are History at This High School
(Los Angeles Times)
12/27/2004 06:27 AMLos Angeles Times - PROVIDENCE, R.I. — When she wanted to be a
detective, Carleen Mylers studied criminal justice and took a job as
an investigator. When she thought she might become a lawyer, she
worked in family court. Now that she has an internship in a local
middle school, people are asking if she plans to go into teaching.
Missile Defense Is A Cult
Missile Defense Is A Cult
12/19/2004 03:10 PMUp here in Canada we’re coming under political pressure from
President Bush to sign up for the U.S. Missile Defense program,
we’ve got all this territory up North where they’d like to situate
the launchers. Rather than just saying “Get lost!”,
our Mr. Martin is (wisely I
think) playing it cool and fuzzifying. It’s good not to irritate the
U.S. when you don’t have to, but there’s absolutely no need for
Canada to assist the dwindling but influential band of cultists who
believe that Missile Defense is anything but a defense-contractor
boondoggle. It was bogus back when Reagan launched it and it’s still
bogus. But don’t take my word for it, check out what the American
Institute of Physics
has to
say. Mind you, it’s less dangerous now than it was in Reagan’s
day, when there was a nonzero probability that “Star Wars” might
have provoked some paranoid Russians who were sufficiently stupid to
believe that it might work to launch a first strike while they still
had a chance. (
Lauren has
told me of how she, like every other underfunded Physics Ph.D. in the
Eighties, noticed how dressing research up as missile-defense-related
was a good way to tap into the gushing SDI money pipeline). Now,
it’s just an
extremely
profitable waste of money. We all know that religious cults are
distinguished by believing in things that are obviously not true,
usually combined with substantial cash flows in the direction of those
running the cult. Missile defense is an obvious example.
Missile Defense: Ready, Set, Go?
Missile Defense: Ready, Set, Go?
04/26/2004 04:53 AMA new General Accounting Office report says U.S. missile defense
systems are being deployed before they're fully tested. The military
says it's meeting an administration timeline, even though the tech is
still being developed.
Indefensible missile defense
Indefensible missile defense
12/19/2004 03:23 PMIn the world of research and development, as in the world of
entrepreneurial capitalism, there's this notion of a "proof of
concept." A proof of concept is a small-scale test or prototype
demonstration that takes some new idea and subjects it to some
stress-testing by reality -- not a full dose but enough to show that
the idea might be worth pursuing. Prove the concept, and maybe you'll
risk fully funding the idea. Can't prove the concept? Give up. Move on
to something else.
For two decades now, ever since Ronald Reagan unveiled his "Star
Wars" vision, a faction of the defense-industrial complex has been
trying to produce a proof of concept for missile defense -- to show
that we can, with some level of reliability, defend the U.S. by
shooting down hostile incoming missiles.
This week, they failed,
again.
As proofs of concept go, this was not a cheap one -- the single
test cost $85 million. We've spent $80 billion to date on this
program, and President Bush wants to spend another $50 billion in the
next few years.
But the real issue is not cost but methodology: The whole point of
the proof of concept approach is that, if you can't prove the
concept, you pull the plug while you're still in the R&D phase. The
Bush administration is instead ignoring the simple reality of the
results of its experiments and barreling forward.
I guess it's just being consistent: If you don't accept simple
budgetary arithmetic and you don't accept the results of weapons
inspections in Iraq and you don't accept the overwhelming scientific
consensus on global warming, why should you break the pattern and
accept the data from your missile-defense experiments? After all, that
might be inching uncomfortably close to the "reality-based community."
(See Fred Kaplan in
Slate for a more detailed argument: "We can't even count on the
rocket getting out of its launch silo, much less the millions of
minute operations that must follow. President Bush fielded a
half-dozen antimissile missiles and called them 'operational.' But
they're a ruse.")
What we have here, aside from a massive and repeated technical
failure, is a proof of concept for our government's new,
proof-of-concept-free approach to spending our money. If we can get
away with this reality-denial, the Bush administration's logic
goes, let's keep doing it on a bigger and bigger scale! And
indeed that's what's unfolding as the comic opera known as the Bush
economic plan plays its overture to Act Two.
Let's see, we had enough money to support Social Security until we
cut taxes repeatedly and manufactured a crisis, which is now being
used to justify a ridiculous privatization scheme. But we still have
enough money to pour into the black hole of missile defense.
I hate to be cynical, and certainly a lot of this is being driven
by stupid blind ideology, but there is a common thread here:
There's profit to be made by parking billions of Social Security money
on Wall Street. And there's money to be made in missile defense.
Hey, maybe some of that money will be kicked back in 2008, when
it's time to find and fund another Republican to keep this con game
going!
Missile Shield Tests, Take 2
Missile Shield Tests, Take 2
12/11/2003 02:27 PMCBS News Dec 11 2003 1:54PM ET
Australia Joins U.S. Missile Defense
System
Australia Joins U.S. Missile Defense
System
12/04/2003 01:16 AMReuters via Wired News Dec 4 2003 0:38AM ET
Congress Weighs Money for Missile
Defense (AP)
Congress Weighs Money for Missile
Defense (AP)
04/04/2005 02:37 AMAP - Congress is weighing how much to invest in the fledgling
ballistic missile defense system, which has suffered setbacks and
whose cost could easily top the $150 billion partial price tag the
Bush administration has estimated.
Russia successfully test-fires ballistic
missile
Russia successfully test-fires ballistic
missile
08/12/2004 12:57 AMContent.sina.com - Wed Aug 11, 08:14 pm GMT
Bush Promotes His Plan for Missile
Defense System
Bush Promotes His Plan for Missile
Defense System
08/17/2004 10:36 PMPresident Bush, in Pennsylvania, said that opponents of a missile
defense system were putting the nation's security at risk.
Russia boasts future weapons that can
penetrate missile defence
Russia boasts future weapons that can
penetrate missile defence
02/19/2004 06:09 PMCanadian Press via Canada.com Feb 19 2004 9:39PM GMT
Pakistan tests long-range missile
Pakistan tests long-range missile
03/19/2005 02:40 AMPakistan says it has successfully completed another test of its
long-range Shaheen II missile.
Yahoo! News - Bush Plugs Missile Defense
System Plan
Yahoo! News - Bush Plugs Missile Defense
System Plan
08/18/2004 10:40 AMBush Backs Satellite-Guided Missile Defense .. once again
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MEMtronics Receives Missile Defense
Agency Contract for Tunable Filter
Development
MEMtronics Receives Missile Defense
Agency Contract for Tunable Filter
Development
03/22/2005 04:27 PMMEMtronics Corporation today announced it has received a research
contract from the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) entitled MEMS
Tunable Transmit Filters for MKV Applications. [PRWEB Mar 20, 2005]
Defense Department Tests Hybrid
Active/Passive RFID
Defense Department Tests Hybrid
Active/Passive RFID
12/30/2004 09:50 AMAlthough more costly than passive RFID, active RFID work has already
been integrated with anti-terrorist technologies such as radiological
sensors. Big retailers like Wal-Mart and Target might someday follow
suit, according to some.
Wizdom Announces Award of Phase II DoD
SBIR to Research Methods to Increase
Production of Focal Plane Arrays (FPAs):
Focal Plane Arrays Produced by Rockwell
Scientific are Crucial to Nations
Missile Defense System
Wizdom Announces Award of Phase II DoD
SBIR to Research Methods to Increase
Production of Focal Plane Arrays (FPAs):
Focal Plane Arrays Produced by Rockwell
Scientific are Crucial to Nations
Missile Defense System
12/17/2004 06:40 PMWizdom Systems, Inc., a leading consulting and engineering services
company has been awarded a Phase II Small Business Innovative Research
grant from the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to research process and
control methods that will significantly increase the yield in the
production of Focal Plane Arrays (FPA), devices crucial to the
successful deployment of the nations missile defense system. The
project is managed by the Air Force Research Laboratory; Space
Vehicles Directorate. Wizdom is teamed with Rockwell Science Center
RSC of Thousand Oaks, California, which is the end producer of the
FPAs. This grant marks Wizdoms tenth SBIR awarded by the Federal
Government. [PRWEB Oct 29, 2004]
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They're Off! (To the Gym) (Los Angeles
Times)
They're Off! (To the Gym) (Los Angeles
Times)
05/25/2004 05:16 AMLos Angeles Times - VERSAILLES, Ky. — Just days after
arthroscopic surgery to remove bone chips from an inflamed ankle, the
athlete was back in training, huffing hard as he jogged on an
underwater treadmill.
We Eat; Therefore, They Are (Los Angeles
Times)
We Eat; Therefore, They Are (Los Angeles
Times)
08/10/2004 05:24 AMLos Angeles Times - BETHESDA, Md. — Inside a packed ballroom at
the local Holiday Inn, 13 government-appointed scientists sat regally
around a table, debating servings of fish.
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
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Free, Near-Foolproof Way to Evade
Windows Spyware
Free, Near-Foolproof Way to Evade
Windows Spyware
04/02/2005 05:42 PMSlashdot Apr 2 2005 9:52PM GMT
'Smart' worm lies low to evade detection
'Smart' worm lies low to evade detection
07/13/2004 08:28 AMFugitive Documents Evade Federal
Depositories
Fugitive Documents Evade Federal
Depositories
07/13/2004 05:09 AMFugitive Documents Evade Federal Depositorieshttp://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0621/pol-crisis-06-21-04.asp
The Federal Depository Library Program is losing the
race to keep up with cataloging and preserving access to Web-only
government documents. "This is not a problem; this is a crisis," says
Daniel Greenstein, head of the California Digital Library, which
serves the 10 libraries in the University of California system. To
capture those missing documents, known as fugitive documents, the
Government Printing Office is contemplating using Web-harvesting
technologies, but GPO officials acknowledge that Web-crawler and
datamining technologies might prove inadequate for rounding up much of
the information the government publishes online. Greenstein notes that
while Web-crawlers are fairly good at capturing documents from the
Web's surface, they miss much of the information on the so-called Deep
Web, where databases and dynamic Web pages reside. A recent California
Digital Library study found that about 85% of the Deep Web is in the
.gov domain. GPO officials have enlisted the help of the University of
North Texas Libraries to maintain a collection of electronic documents
known as the Cyber Cemetery, but they acknowledge they have no idea
how many fugitive documents they're missing. "If we knew where they
were to count them, then they wouldn't be fugitive," says Judith
Russell, superintendent of documents. But other institutions, such as
the California Digital Library, say they can't wait for the government
to solve the problem and are committing staff and funding to maintain
their electronic collections of government information. This has been
added to the article section of Deep Web Research Subject
Tracer™ Information Blog.
Annan seeks to evade Sudan blame
Annan seeks to evade Sudan blame
06/22/2004 10:31 AMThe UN secretary general warns member countries not to blame him for
their inaction in Darfur.
More Than One Can Conceive (Los Angeles
Times)
More Than One Can Conceive (Los Angeles
Times)
12/30/2004 06:51 AMLos Angeles Times - CLEVELAND — The elephant dung was no trouble
at all. When the circus came to town, Percy Skuy simply showed up with
a bucket and politely asked the keeper if he could collect a few
droppings.
It Seems Everybody Has an Opinion About
Her (Los Angeles Times)
It Seems Everybody Has an Opinion About
Her (Los Angeles Times)
08/01/2004 05:16 AMLos Angeles Times - BOSTON — Teresa Heinz Kerry is a political
wife unlike any this country has seen. But can she affect an election?
Some think it's possible.
Far From Ready for More War (Los Angeles
Times)
Far From Ready for More War (Los Angeles
Times)
05/15/2004 05:51 AMLos Angeles Times - FT. CAMPBELL, Ky. — From their first days as
"Screaming Eagles," the 18,000 soldiers of the Army's 101st Airborne
Division are taught to be ready for anything. As the force's proud
creed goes: "First in, last out."
They May Protest Too Much (Los Angeles
Times)
They May Protest Too Much (Los Angeles
Times)
05/24/2004 07:52 AMLos Angeles Times - MEXICO CITY — Shakespeare warned about the
ides of March, and T.S. Eliot dubbed April the cruelest month. But
they never lived in Mexico City, where May delivers a special kind of
misery.
Olé? No Way, Say Chinese (Los
Angeles Times)
Olé? No Way, Say Chinese (Los
Angeles Times)
05/11/2004 05:02 AMLos Angeles Times - BEIJING — "Foreign Bulls Head for the Middle
Kingdom."
The Los Angeles Times goes multimedia
The Los Angeles Times goes multimedia
03/21/2003 12:14 AM The Los Angeles Times goes
multimedia. For the past few weeks, the LA Times has begun a
significant push into offering video, audio, and interactive Flash on
their website. One of the most interesting aspects is that the paper
has moved one step beyond simply replaying AP Television clips as many
sites have done; the LA Times writers are stand before the cameras and
microphones themselves and report stories in a stuttering,
non-hairsprayed, introverted demeanor that I find very refreshing,
though so far I have gleaned very little additional information from
it. When does (or can) this mode of journalism on the web rise above
gimmickry or 'just because we can' and add value to a written article?
Can video/tv news rise above mere spectacle?
Age Before Duty (Los Angeles Times)
Age Before Duty (Los Angeles Times)
06/08/2004 06:12 AMLos Angeles Times - SACRAMENTO — This is the age of
revolving-door democracy in California. It's the era of term limits
and recalls and contempt for the Legislature, a time when an erstwhile
action movie star can run the nation's largest state government and a
freshman lawmaker can rule the Assembly.
Los Angeles Times - Registration
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12/02/2003 12:28 AMBluesman's Son Gets His Due (Los Angeles
Times)
Bluesman's Son Gets His Due (Los Angeles
Times)
06/02/2004 05:30 AMLos Angeles Times - CRYSTAL SPRINGS, Miss. — Inside the pink
brick estate he built with a blues fortune, 72-year-old Claud Johnson
cannot shake the habits he formed when he was a poor man.
Going Away for the Gold (Los Angeles
Times)
Going Away for the Gold (Los Angeles
Times)
08/11/2004 04:42 AMLos Angeles Times - It is a quintessential Olympic moment, hundreds of
athletes marching into the stadium, drenching the field in the banners
and colors of their nations. But when the 2004 Summer Games in Athens
begin with this traditional opening ceremony, take a closer look.
An Icon, and Then He's Gone (Los Angeles
Times)
An Icon, and Then He's Gone (Los Angeles
Times)
06/04/2004 05:47 AMLos Angeles Times - BEIJING — For many foreigners, he is
Tiananmen Square's most recognizable figure, outshining even Chairman
Mao Tse-tung — whose body still lies in state at a far end of
the vast public space.
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