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Thursday, February 06, 2003 |
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Feb 4 2003 |
U.S. Race to Militarize Space Poses Many Dangers
While the world media covers the tragic crash of the space shuttle Columbia over east Texas, little is said about the ambiguous and deepening relationship between NASA and the military especially under the leadership of NASA's new chief, Sean O'Keefe, a Dick Cheney protege who served as Secretary of the Navy during the first Bush Administration. The Space Shuttle, for instance, has been used in recent years for everything from repairing the Hubble Telescope to studying the effects of weightlessness on tiny insects to deploying global positioning satellites that provide signals for most of today's precision-guided "smart" bombs. On Monday, there was a small protest outside the opening of the 20th Annual Symposium on Space Nuclear Power & Propulsion in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Today In History
February 6, 1919
A general strike began in Seattle -- the first complete general strike in U.S. history. The city's 10,000 Japanese immigrants participated in the walkout, as did longshoremen, trolley operators, even bartenders.
Thanks to Workday Minnesota
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rictus: Dictionary.com Word of the Day. rictus [Dictionary.com Word of the Day]
Word of the Day for Thursday February 6, 2003
rictus RIK-tuhs, noun:
1. The gape of the mouth, as of birds.
2. A gaping grin or grimace.
A rictus of cruel malignity lit up greyly their old bony faces.
--James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
His belly swelled grotesquely, his hands curled, his cheeks puffed out, his mouth contorted in a rictus of pain and astonishment.
--Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic
Then, as the sympathy and praise engulfed him, Hector would invariably roll over onto his back, legs in the air, his mouth twisted into an otherworldly rictus.
--Bruce McCall, "Writers Who Were Really Dogs," New York Times, June 5, 1994
Rictus is from Latin rictus, "the open mouth," from ringi, "to show the teeth."
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Bush Data-Mining Plan in Hot Seat
Bush Data-Mining Plan in Hot Seat. A bipartisan coalition calls for greater scrutiny of the Total Information Awareness program, saying the plan to scan public and private databases for suspicious terrorist threats may endanger civil liberties. By Julia Scheeres. [Wired News]
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