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Monday, December 16, 2002

NYTimes Year in Ideas. jonbrewer writes "The New York Times is back again with their "Year in Ideas" and one that Slashdot missed this year was the RatBot. As featured in the BBC and ... [Slashdot]
Good Stuff Here:

Ambulance-Homicide Theory - Getting tough on crime makes little difference, fast amulances and better hospitals do. This affects what crimes people are prosecuted for.
Intellectual Magnet Cities - American cities used to become rich and important by attracting high-energy, low-skilled workers from abroad or from farm states. Now they do the same thing by luring brainy young people away from less livable American cities
Enemy Combatants - The idea that an American who is suspected of having links to Al Qaeda should not have the right to a lawyer and the should not have the right to not answer questions about coming attacks while being held indefinatly.
Christian-Right Zionism - Israeli rightists have encouraged conservative evangelicals like Jerry Falwell and Robertson to translate fascination with Isreal and the second comming into active backing for hardline Israeli positions.
Women Are Just as Jealous as Men - Several other prominent studies being published this year produced similarly gender-neutral results: when deprived of the chance to weigh the long-term effects or to guess what response might be the more appropriately feminine, women proved just as brutishly possessive as men.
Total Information Awareness - Goverment using data mining across a large amounts of private data
State Attorneys General as Corporate Cops - Conservative supreme court devolution to states power to fight federal regulations backfires.
Slow-Motion Democratization - Support slow movements to democracies: Authoritarian regimes would maintain control over certain aspects of internal affairs, like defense, and gradually turn over more responsibilities to an elected government.
Pre-emption - Sticklers point out that what the administration advocates is not technically ''pre-emption,'' which implies a demonstrably imminent attack, but ''prevention,'' which is held in even lower regard by just-war theologians, since it is divorced from a clearly impending danger. In the new thinking, that distinction is blurred by the fact that when nuclear weapons, nerve gas and smallpox are introduced into the equation, ''imminent'' may be too late.

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