Tuesday, December 31, 2002 :::
 

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific |

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2616339.stm

Shanghai supertrain makes first journey

Held by powerful magnets, the train travelled at speeds of over 400km/h (250mph) - completing the 30km (19 mile) journey in the planned time of eight minutes. In a taxi, the same journey takes an hour.

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Shanghai Debuts Futuristic Rail System


The world's first commercial magnetic-levitation train performed flawlessly on its maiden journey Tuesday, hitting 260 mph between Shanghai's gleaming financial district and the 3-year-old Pudong airport.

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With Missionaries Spreading, Muslims' Anger Is Following http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/31/international/middleeast/31DANG.html?pagewanted=print&position=top

December 31, 2002

With Missionaries Spreading, Muslims' Anger Is Following

By SUSAN SACHS
As evangelical Christian emissaries have spread throughout the Muslim world, their presence has increasingly proved to be a lightning rod for anti-American sentiment while provoking the anger of native Christian sects and Islamic clerics.

"The missionaries who have died are martyrs", the pastor said.

"This is not a conflict between religions but a conflict between God and Satan, between good and evil . . ." (Jack Graham, a Texas pastor and current president of the Southern Baptist Convention.)

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Q: I’ve always been disorganized, is there really hope for me?

A: It is possible to learn the basic principles and formulas of organizing. However, in order to experience long-lasting, life-changing results, a professional organizer can teach you how to maintain your systems on a regular basis.

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White House . . . Estimate of Cost of War With Iraq WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 —

"The administration's top budget official estimated today that the cost of a war with Iraq could be in the range of $50 billion to $60 billion . . . "

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- Evidence Mounting That Moderate Drinking Is Healthful

The cardiac benefits of low-dose alcohol are evident in study after study. All over the world, moderate drinkers have healthier hearts than teetotalers, with fewer heart attacks from fatty plaque clogging the heart's arteries and blocking blood flow.

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Monday, December 30, 2002 :::
 

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CanadaInfo: Symbols, Facts, & Lists: Holidays: Boxing Day

Boxing Day

Originally, Boxing Day - the first weekday after Christmas Day - was observed as a holiday "on which postmen, errand boys, and servants of various kinds received a Christmas box of contributions from those whom they serve". (Charles Dickens)

Boxing Day originated in England in the middle of the nineteenth century under Queen Victoria. December 26th became a holiday as boxes were filled with gifts and money for servants and tradespeople.

Also, poor people carried empty boxes from door to door, and the boxes were soon filled with food, Christmas sweets, and money. Parents gave their children small gifts such as, oranges, handkerchiefs, and socks. People also placed old clothing that they didn't need anymore in boxes, and they were given to those in need.

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http://www.cgsystems.co.uk/futile/index.htm

The Futility Of The National Lottery

The lottery has been described as "a tax on the poor and the stupid".

Total Imaginary Investment Total Imaginary Return
Average Return on £10,000

Total Return as Percentage of Investment 28.71%

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The New York Sun

Saudi Arabian Prince Gives $500,000 To Bush Scholarships

Critics Call Andover Donation ‘Disgusting’

BY TIMOTHY STARKS
WASHINGTON - The latest move in the Saudi Arabian public relations effort in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks is a half-million dollar donation by a Saudi prince to the President George Herbert Walker Bush Scholarship Fund at Phillips Academy, Andover.

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The Futility Of The National Lottery

The lottery has been described as "a tax on the poor and the stupid".

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Sunday, December 29, 2002 :::
 

The Palette of Humankind

The Palette of Humankind

By NICHOLAS WADE
"Humankind falls into five continental groups — broadly equivalent to the common conception of races — when a computer is asked to sort DNA data from people from around the world into clusters.
The major groups are African (orange), Europeans and Middle Easterners (blue), East Asians (pink), Melanesians (green) and American Indians (purple). Genomes of people from Central Asia, such as the Hazara of Afghanistan and the Uygurs of western China, are a blend of European and East Asian, as might be expected for people living at a historical crossroads. Some Middle Easterners, like the Bedouin and the Mozabites of Algeria, carry an admixture of African genes."

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A Man Out of Time

Clocks - - -

CHARLES DITMAS, B. 1910
A Man Out of Time
By DAVID GRANN
"One day shortly before his heart gave out, Charles Ditmas went to inspect the clocks under his care. He wore, as was his preference, an Edwardian-style checkered suit, a black hat and a fitted coat with a luxuriant fur collar. His shoes, just visible under the hem of his coat, were as black as his hair, which was meticulously dyed and fell, somewhat remarkably given his 90 years, almost to his shoulders. He was not a handsome man -- he had a long face and stooped shoulders -- but, as always, he commanded a certain amount of attention as he headed out with his walking stick and black leather bag."

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http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/11/obituaries/11RIES.html?pagewanted=print&position=top

May 11, 2002

David Riesman, Sociologist Whose 'Lonely Crowd' Became a Best Seller, Dies at 92

By THE NEW YORK TIMES

avid Riesman, the sociologist whose 1950 scholarly book, "The Lonely Crowd," unexpectedly tapped a deep vein of self-criticism among Americans and became a perennial best seller, contributing ideas and descriptive phrases to popular culture, died yesterday in Binghamton, N.Y. He was 92 and had lived for many years in Cambridge, Mass. . . .

. . . David Riesman was born in Philadelphia on Sept. 22, 1909, the eldest of three children of Dr. David Riesman, an internist and professor of clinical medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and the former Eleanor Fleisher, a graduate of Bryn Mawr.
He attended the William Penn Charter School, a Quaker preparatory school in Philadelphia, then enrolled at Harvard, where he concentrated on the biochemical sciences. He received a B.A. degree in 1931, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was an editor of The Harvard Crimson. He went on to Harvard Law School, "more out of aimlessness than out of any passion for the law," he recalled, and became an editor of The Harvard Law Review. He found time to study government, economics and history as well, before receiving his law degree in 1934 and a fellowship the following year that enabled him to study with Felix Frankfurter.

He was admitted to the bar in Massachusetts, the District of Columbia and New York; served as a law clerk to Justice Louis Brandeis on the Supreme Court; practiced law in Boston; taught at the University of Buffalo; and was a deputy assistant district attorney in Manhattan.

During World War II, Professor Riesman was an official with the Sperry Gyroscope Company, where, he said, "I had the chance to get out of my system the kind of executive energies many lawyers have." He resolved on an academic and writing career, which he fulfilled as a lecturer at many leading universities and as a professor of social sciences at the University of Chicago from 1949 to 1958 and, after that, at Harvard.

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Big Thinkster

DAVID RIESMAN, B. 1909
Big Thinkster

By CHARLES MCGRATH
n midcentury America, sociologists for a while rivaled even psychiatrists in their seeming ability to explain everything about everything. The most influential sociologist of the era was David Riesman, whose 1950 book ''The Lonely Crowd'' ventured to break all of civilization down into three basic character types: ''tradition-directed,'' ''inner-directed'' or ''other-directed.'' Tradition-directeds rigorously follow ancient rules and customs; inner-directeds are self-motivated and goal-oriented; and other-directeds, the people Riesman saw all around him, are slavish conformists who want only to be loved and accepted. They were those craven 50's types we still hear so much about.

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Who Owns the Internet? You and i Do CASE-SENSITIVE CRUSADER
Who Owns the Internet? You and i Do
By JOHN SCHWARTZ


OMETHING will be missing when Joseph Turow's book about families and the Internet is published by M.I.T. Press next spring: The capital I that usually begins the word "Internet."

Is it Weblog or is it weblog?
Is is the Internet or is it internet?

Mr. Turow, a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, studies how people use online technology and how that affects their lives. He has begun a small crusade to de-capitalize Internet — and, by extension, to acknowledge a deep shift in the way that we think about the online world.

"I think what it means is it's part of the everyday universe," he said.

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