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Monday, March 24, 2003
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Jay Earley, Ph.D. writes: The Pattern System is a way of understanding interpersonal behavior patterns and their underlying psychological issues. It provides insight into how you relate to others in love, work, family, and other relationships, and how to change those patterns that don’t work for you. It also helps you to understand why other people act as they do and how to relate to different types of people. This system involves various dimensions of interpersonal relating, such as power, self-perception, intimacy and autonomy, and support. Each of these brings out subtle factors that are operating when we interact with each other which determine how satisfying our relationships are. (03/24/03) | |
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Arthur Schlesinger Jr. writes: We are at war again -- not because of enemy attack, as in World War II, nor because of incremental drift, as in the Vietnam War -- but because of the deliberate and premeditated choice of our own government. Now that we are embarked on this misadventure, let us hope that our intervention will be swift and decisive, and that victory will come with minimal American, British and civilian Iraqi casualties. But let us continue to ask why our government chose to impose this war. The choice reflects a fatal turn in U.S. foreign policy, in which the strategic doctrine of containment and deterrence that led us to peaceful victory during the Cold War has been replaced by the Bush Doctrine of preventive war. The president has adopted a policy of "anticipatory self-defense" that is alarmingly similar to the policy that imperial Japan employed at Pearl Harbor on a date which, as an earlier American president said it would, lives in infamy. Franklin D. Roosevelt was right, but today it is we Americans who live in infamy. The global wave of sympathy that engulfed the United States after 9/11 has given way to a global wave of hatred of American arrogance and militarism. Public opinion polls in friendly countries regard George W. Bush as a greater threat to peace than Saddam Hussein. Demonstrations around the planet, instead of denouncing the vicious rule of the Iraqi president, assail the United States on a daily basis. (03/24/03) | |
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Holodynamics views reality as a coherent, dynamic, living, holographic information system whose structure, from micro (smallness) to macro (bigness) is intimately connected with human consciousness. Consciousness is considered a prime condition of the holodynamic universe. It is not limited to a single space-time continuum but emerges from parallel dimensions into a coherent potential for each individual (the Full Potential Self). This personal potential manifests as a quantum potential field within the microtubules of every living cell of the human body and controls all body functions as well as mental and social functions. ... An understanding of Holodynes and the relationship they play in your everyday actions and thoughts is necessary if you would like to transform your life NOW and have: More Love, More prosperity, Better communication, Healthy relationships, Energizing and intimate sex, Satisfying work & play and The joy of living as your Full Potential Self. (02/24/03) | |
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BBC Science -- Anthrax jabs declined by thousands of British troops serving in the war on Iraq are safe and cause only mild side-effects, research has found. Ministry of Defence figures show that up to 12 March, almost half the servicemen and women sent to the Gulf had refused the jab amid fears of a repeat of Gulf War Syndrome. But the latest study suggests just 11% of military personnel immunised against anthrax develop reactions and in most cases these are confined to soreness or swelling around the site of injection. Researchers say this means the anthrax jab has a better safety profile than other routine vaccines. (03/24/03) | |
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BBC Science -- The Ebola virus that has claimed many human lives in central Africa is also threatening the region's great apes, conservationists say. More than 80 people have died this year in the outbreak, in the Gabon/Congo-Brazzavile border area. There are now fears for one of the largest concentrations of western lowland gorillas. Some scientists believe the virus may have killed thousands of apes in the last few years. (03/24/03) | |
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BBC Science -- Researchers from Kazakhstan, Russia and the UK are deeply concerned about the future of the saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica tatarica) after surveys from the air suggested numbers had fallen by 95% since the 1970s. The antelope has now been rushed into the list of critically endangered species held by the World Conservation Union (IUCN). The break-up of the Soviet Union has been blamed for the decline, as the removal of collective farming threw rural economies into chaos, forcing locals to rely on saiga meat to survive. It also opened the border into China, where the horn of the male saiga is prized as an ingredient of Chinese medicine. However, some of the most dramatic falls have happened in the last five years, even though less hunting of the saiga is thought to be taking place. The researchers believe this may be because the depletion of male saiga has altered the behaviour of females. (03/24/03) | |
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The Independent UK -- The killer pneumonia virus from the East is spreading to children. In Hong Kong, the Health Minister, Yeoh Eng-Kiong, said six were infected in the territory, one school had been shut and three others would be disinfected over the weekend. All the children were believed to have been infected by family members working in hospitals, but children typically have much closer contact with each other than adults, increasing the risks of the illness spreading in schools. Anxious parents have begun sending them to school in surgical masks and have called schools demanding to know what safety measures were being taken. The Government said it would shut any school for disinfection if the virus was confirmed among its children. One mother, Olivia Lo, said: "Now that it is in schools, this may just explode. Schools are so congested and children don't know how to take precautions. If they even suspect an infection, they must close the schools." (03/24/03) | |
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Since the nature of the agent and the resulting exposure level are likely to be unknown, it is important to protect all potential routes of entry -- lungs, skin, mucous membranes. Having oral and respiratory protection is obviously the most important consideration in protection. ... More readily available air purifying respirators offer some level of protection to the lungs, but above some concentration level these types of respirators are not protective enough. Furthermore, for negative pressure respirators, the face piece must be tightly sealed to the face; otherwise the toxic agent will escape through the sealing surface into the breathing area and bypass the cartridge/filters entirely. Therefore the protective approach is to guard against oral and respiratory exposure long enough to evacuate the contaminated area. (03/24/03) | |
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Timothy Wilken, MD writes: Known to the wise—Abraham, Buddha, Confucius, and Jesus understood the underlying connectedness of all humanity. Their admonitions to us contain high awareness of our human INTERdependence. This is why they taught us not to kill, not to steal, not to molest, not to fraud, not to coerce. They understood that the conflict of Adversity was not for humankind. They understood that the indifference of Neutrality was not for humankind. They taught us to be our brother's keeper. (03/23/03) | |
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