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Sunday, Mar 03, 2002

ill take manhattan

"For a few harrowing weeks last fall, a group of U.S. officials believed that the worst nightmare of their lives�something even more horrific than 9/11�was about to come true. In October an intelligence alert went out to a small number of government agencies, including the Energy Department's top-secret Nuclear Emergency Search Team, based in Nevada. The report said that terrorists were thought to have obtained a 10-kiloton nuclear weapon from the Russian arsenal and planned to smuggle it into New York City."

Saturday, Mar 02, 2002

super soaker

"Call off the dogs please. I surrender. I apologize. I am chastened and will never use "hot tub"and "Marin County" in the same sentence again. Though you yourself in "Reader's Forum" recognized that others have used the "hot tub" analogy, I shouldn't have done it."

time sluts

abc has a new comedy about network executives called Wednesday 9:30/8:30 Central

rules of engagement

"If Carp's evaluation is correct, it seems that when a President is - as President Bush is now - forced to deal with a politically divided government, the quality of his judicial appointees may markedly increase. Automatic confirmation may be not a luxury, but a threat; it tends to send the political hacks and ideologues onto the bench, and keep the better jurists off."

zoned in

"Atlanta is at the forefront of a widespread movement to update zoning codes. The theories that propelled some of the codes stem from before the Eisenhower administration, at a time when the advent of the car became the single most important factor influencing land-use policy.

"The postwar planning initiatives had a real blossoming of the notion of separation of land uses and were responding to the car, which was the new thing that everyone was really excited by," Dobbins said.

"The tried and true, centuries-old sets of relations between people and their buildings were ignored," Dobbins said. "Zoning ordinances actually encouraged and induced this phenomenum of a building sitting in a sea of asphalt, accessible by car."

Times have changed."

polished apple

museum of the city of new york

fair play

whats the plan

Pathways in American Planning History: A Thematic Chronology

Friday, Mar 01, 2002

critical thinking

"March 1, 2002 | As Democrats launch their first criticisms of the Bush administration's war policies, several Republicans and conservative pundits have launched an all-out attack designed to frame virtually any criticism of the war on terrorism as illegitimate."

chalk talk

"The tempest began at the end of September, when Bill O'Reilly invited Mr. Al-Arian on his Fox News show and virtually accused him of being a terrorist. People here in Tampa were horrified to learn of a terrorist in their midst and flooded the university with complaints and a few threats. (Florida has the most pious death threats: a couple of them invoked God and one ended by saying "God Bless!")"

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