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Sunday, August 18, 2002 |
Bush's Waco economic forum "was a 'forum'... in the sense that the Politburo was a 'legislature'."
Frank Rich: "There are new headlines the administration wants us to forget. At the F.B.I.... the prehistoric computer system remains in disarray even as the agency's top executives are either pushed out or flee for private employment (as the counterterrorism chief abruptly did on Thursday). ... when the federal government issued a terrorist warning to shopping centers four months ago, the Mall of America learned about it only by watching CNN. Not only are our airlines collapsing but... so is the undercover air marshal program that was supposed to be strengthened after Sept. 11. One marshal called it 'a laughingstock'."
9:48:05 PM 
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Francis Fukuyama: Has History Restarted Since Septermber 11?
Topics covered:
--What he means by the End of History
--The nature of the rift between American and its allies
--Is the rift genuine
--Why do these differences exist?
--Are we at the end of history?
--Democracy's future
[Thanks to John Steiner]
9:11:29 PM
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SUPREME COURT RULES EARNINGS SHOULD BE PROTECTED AS "ART"
Washington, D.C. (SatireWire.com)
In a surprise decision that exonerates dozens of major companies, the U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that corporate earnings statements should be protected as works of art, as they "create something from nothing."
12:40:45 PM
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Trees in the desert
After years of surviving solely on food aid, hundreds of thousands of people living in the horn of Africa now have the opportunity to become self-sufficient.
How will we do all that? By planting trees in the desert, by harvesting the seeds of these trees and planting them - and by growing huge quantities of biomass to feed domestic livestock. Our plan: to plant 1000 million trees over the next 100 years.
8:29:05 AM
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Elvis, Schmelvis
"Schmelvis: Searching for the King's Jewish Roots" follows ultra-orthodox Jewish Elvis impersonator Dan Hartal, from Montreal, as he travels trying to convince those he meets that Elvis was Jewish.
8:18:22 AM
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"To cast away environmental education is more than a tragedy, it is a form of theft."
Common Dreams: In a released 2003 White House budget, environmental education (EE) has been labeled, "ineffective." The budget calls for a reorganization of EPA, with EE funds being allocated to the National Science Foundation....
Forty years ago we called "advocacy" in schools "civics," now we prefer a numb, materialistic generation fluent in standardized tests that basically revel in semantics and put critical thinking, problem solving and citizen participation on the endangered species list.
8:14:23 AM
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A snippet from CFO magazine (thanks Omar). This is definitely something that K-Logs could solve:
U.S. researcher IDC estimates the cost of "knowledge deficit" ? defined as costs and inefficiencies that result from intellectual rework, substandard performance, and inability to find knowledge resources ? at Fortune 500 companies is about $5,000 per knowledge worker per year, and rising. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
7:47:50 AM
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