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Saturday, May 25, 2002

two can play at that game

"An experimental remote-controlled fighter jet developed by the US military has performed its first test flight."

"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- After watching the popularity of video gaming grow into a $9 billion business last year, the U.S. military is launching a video game with an eye toward recruiting."

having visions

"We went last week to a demonstration of television on the sixty-second floor of the R.C.A. Building, where some rather startling images were ending up after being tossed around the midtown district. We sat in a darkened room squarely in front of a receiving set and, as we understand the matter, the persons and objects which we saw were down on the third floor of the same building, where they were first photographed televisually by an iconoscope, thence sent by direct wire to the Empire State Building, and then came back on a megacycle to the sixty-second floor of R.C.A. The magical unlikelihood of this occasion was not lessened any by the fact that a stranger wearing a telephone around his neck was crawling about on all fours in the darkness at our feet. This didn't make television seem any too practical for the living room of one's own home, although of course homes are changing."

denver nuggets

"An advertising firm is handing out signs to panhandlers with a plug for the company � a stunt homeless advocates say trivializes the plight of those on the streets."

"Laminated signs with snappy messages such as, "At Least I'm Not Spamming Your E-Mail," and "Hell, It Beats a Cubicle," have begun replacing cardboard placards normally waved by panhandlers at motorists."

money honeys

"The average net worth of the individual members of the Bush cabinet, including the President and Vice President, was between $9.3 and $27.3 million. That�s nearly ten times the average net worth of the cabinet officials who were their immediate predecessors, according to a Center for Public Integrity analysis of executive branch personal financial disclosure forms."

tabula rasa

"BERLIN (Reuters) - An irreverent left-leaning German newspaper published a blank front page on Friday under the headline "Bush's historic speech" to mock the U.S. president's address in the Reichstag on Thursday."

Friday, May 24, 2002

the next time you see me coming youd better run

booknotes cruises down highway 61 on bobby zimmerman's 61st birthday.

play misty for me

"WASHINGTON, May 23 � The Defense Department sprayed live nerve and biological agents on ships and sailors in cold war-era experiments to test the Navy's vulnerability to toxic warfare, the Pentagon revealed today."

Thursday, May 23, 2002

newspinoff

"pbs introduces frontline/world: stories from a small planet"

duty calls

"For every college counselor at Roosevelt High, there are five military recruiters. "The recruiters prey on students who feel they have no other options: immigrant students trying to get citizenship, seniors lacking credits to graduate, and anyone who they can persuade that the army will train them for the real world," said Lester Garc�a, a Roosevelt graduate and youth organizer. Promises of money for college or citizenship are thrown out like candy."

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