[Futurework] Show and Tell

2003-03-01 Thread Karen Watters Cole
Rosetta books @ http://rosettabooks.com/pages/homepage.html for e-books   Foreign Policy March/April issue Net Effect/Spinning History @ http://www.foreignpolicy.com/issue_janfeb_2003/neteffect.html for some interesting websites of former leaders now online.     And from the same FP sit

[Futurework] They are ready

2003-03-01 Thread Karen Watters Cole
‘Camp Ripper’ is set up for a long stay.  KWC 'A War of Bridges' 225,000 U.S. and British Troops Are Now Within Striking Distance By Susan B. Glasser and Vernon Loeb, Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, March 2, 2003; Page A01 IN NORTHERN KUWAIT -- Along Highway 80, the main road

RE: [Futurework] Interesting, someone tie Arthur and Sally to the bed and burn those plane tickets.

2003-03-01 Thread Cordell . Arthur
I have a better idea.  Why not have Deepak take an apartment in Baghdad and take up permanent residence.  Then let him talk about this and that until.the dreaded knock on the door during the night.   arthur -Original Message-From: Ray Evans Harrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]S

[Futurework] Hooray for the Canadians again

2003-03-01 Thread Karen Watters Cole
Bridging the divide Why Canada’s compromise proposal on Iraq makes sense http://www.msnbc.com/news/879027.asp?0cv=CB20   Feb. 28 — The Canadians have a sensible proposal for a compromise resolution that could lend some political legitimacy to the coming war against Iraq. Mexico and Chil

Re: [Futurework] Games economists play

2003-03-01 Thread Ray Evans Harrell
When I was rafting, I was amazed at how simply keeping your feet in front of you and going with the river could usually save your life short of a big waterfall. They chucked us in the river but they made sure we could swim and they didn't let us get past that first rapid until we could keep our f

[Futurework] Interesting, someone tie Arthur and Sally to the bed and burn those plane tickets.

2003-03-01 Thread Ray Evans Harrell
Guru would join Pope in front of bombs By Michael Lollar [EMAIL PROTECTED] February 27, 2003 Deepak Chopra, the doctor who is bringing his brand of East-meets-West philosophy to Memphis, proposed Wednesday that the Pope, the Dalai Lama and himself serve as human shields to avoid bombing in I

[Futurework] American Health Care - By personal experience.

2003-03-01 Thread Harry Pollard
Keith, Ed, Arthur, et al, As you know, I had intimate experience with the American system of Health last year. I have belonged to the Kaiser Permanente System for 40 years - insuring my whole family until they became adults. The service was very good. I had three Day Surgeries and each time as

Re: [Futurework] Potato Blight anyone?

2003-03-01 Thread Harry Pollard
Raymond, Excellent question! First, you must understand the NewSpeak of modern economists. Thousands of people may be dying because of lack of food - but there is no famine. Tens of thousands may be surviving on barely enough food to exist but don't worry folks - we don't have a famine. As al

Re: [Futurework] Games economists play

2003-03-01 Thread Harry Pollard
Karen, A follow up on 'games'. The reason why I am less interested in AIDS victims than AIDS, less interested in the poor than their poverty, less interested in the homeless than in the reasons why housing is so expensive is not because I am heartless - even though Simon Legree had nothing on

Re: [Futurework] Re: Nuclear Reactors

2003-03-01 Thread Harry Pollard
Keith, You ask whether the industry would have brought "nuclear power to far higher levels of productivity, profitability or sophistication?" Actually they have. The amount of nuclear electricity produced has gone up in the US over the last 30 years - without new plants being built. However,

RE: [Futurework] Blogging 101 ~ Huh? ???

2003-03-01 Thread Karen Watters Cole
Good points, as usual, Stephen. The internet seems to be changing the concept of community quickly and mostly in positive ways. But can anyone enlighten me on how this is going to have a "profound effect on education"? If it means that I can access a journal of creative thinking and discourse pro

Re: [Futurework] Potato Blight anyone?

2003-03-01 Thread Harry Pollard
Raymond, Excellent question! First, you must understand the NewSpeak of modern economists. Thousands of people may be dying because of lack of food - but there is no famine. Tens of thousands may be surviving on barely enough food to exist but don't worry folks - we don't have a famine. As al

Re: [Futurework] Blogging 101 ~ Huh? ???

2003-03-01 Thread Stephen Straker
Hi Brad, Your discourse on blogging seems basically right. Keeping a blog sounds alot like keeping a personal journal, but now it's on-line, full of links and commentary, and everyone invited to look over your shoulder. Naturally, some people's journals will be way more interesting than others.

[Futurework] Age-ism: Allstate agents bring suit NYT Mag

2003-03-01 Thread Stephen Straker
FYI - "Too Old to Work?" The New York Times (2 March 2003) by Adam Cohen http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/02/magazine/02ALLSTATE.html "... These days, however, age discrimination is more often the product of broad-based company policies, like decisions to phase out entire job categories dispropor

[Futurework] Blogging 101

2003-03-01 Thread Karen Watters Cole
BLOGGING COMES TO HARVARD Harvard University has given software developer David Winer a fellowship and the assignment of leading the Blogs at Harvard Initiative and showing Harvard faculty and students how to create and manage "blogs" (short for Web logs) on subjects of their choice. Winer

Re: [Futurework] Games economists play

2003-03-01 Thread Harry Pollard
Karen, Virginia always writes pretty good things, and they are just the sort of thing you would find - for which we must thank you. I fear that this new direction will not so much enrich "economist's understanding" as enrich economists. We know that our desires are unlimited and that we'll try