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Subject: [BPR] - Students taught to report classmates to authorities
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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 08:40:43 -0500

MONDAY MARCH 27 2000

Students taught to report classmates to authorities

A new anti-violence program in America's public school
system is teaching children how to spy on other students
and to turn them in, using an anonymous toll-free line to a
detective agency.

The W.A.V.E. America program was developed by Pinkerton
Services Group, a division of the international security
firm Pinkerton, Inc. The program began last month in North
Carolina, and it is now expanding state by state until it
becomes nationwide.

North Carolina Gov. Jim Hunt said his state adopted the
program as part of the recommendation from his Task Force
on Youth Violence and School Safety. He said the program
offers a comprehensive violence prevention program
combining a statewide toll-free tip line, a website, and an
awareness campaign to teach parents and students how to be
a part of preventing school violence.

Students receive hats, t-shirts and other W.A.V.E. items,
and cash rewards are paid for tips on students with
weapons. Students are taught to watch for certain types of
behavior, such as depression, and to report students who
they think may become violent.

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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_bresnahan/20000327_xex_spying_101
shtml

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Subject: [BPR] - Corporate giant proud of strategic alliance with Beijing
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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 08:45:17 -0500

MONDAY MARCH 27 2000

Motorola's pledge of allegiance -- to China?

Corporate giant proud of strategic alliance with Beijing

When consumer advocate Ralph Nader a few years ago asked
the managers of Motorola if they would please say the
Pledge of Allegiance at their annual shareholders meetings,
the company responded with indignation.

"Motorola will not be adopting Mr. Nader's suggestion,"
said senior corporate counsel Carol Forsyte. "We believe
that by doing so we would be introducing political and
nationalistic overtones which have nothing to do [with] the
true purpose of a stockholders meeting."

This begged an obvious question: If Motorola will not
pledge allegiance to the American republic -- "one nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all" --
to what will it pledge allegiance?

One answer to that question can be found today on a
website the company has posted in the People's Republic of
China, which is linked to its U.S. website. A page on this
Chinese site -- subtitled "China and Motorola reach for the
sky" -- lists the company's achievements in the PRC under
the following categories:

"Investments and technology transfer"

"Management localization and training"

"Local sourcing"

"Joint development: joint ventures and cooperative
projects"

"Cooperative projects: joint technology development"

"Corporate citizenship"

This is the sort of language one would expect from a
nationalist corporation -- looking out for the interests of
China. Just as General Motors could boast half a century
ago, "What's good for General Motors is good for America,"
Motorola seems to be boasting today, "What's good for
Motorola is good for China." On this Chinese website, the
company brags that its policy of providing Chinese
"suppliers with designs and new technology" helped those
firms "export U.S. $480 million worth of products in 1999"
and is "an initiative that dovetails with the China
government's own strategy for upgrading state-owned
enterprises."

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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exnews/20000327_xex_motorolas_pl.
shtml

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Subject: [BPR] - Turner proving his 'love' for U.N. by pouring millions into its causes
From: bpr-list@philologos.org
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 08:50:06 -0500

Turner proving his 'love' for U.N. by pouring millions into its
causes

03/26/2000

By Jim Landers / Washington Bureau of The Dallas Morning
News

WASHINGTON - Ted Turner is a dedicated internationalist.
The founder of Cable News Network flies the United Nations
flag at CNN headquarters in Atlanta. He banned CNN editors
and correspondents from using the word foreign unless it is
someone's formal job title.

"I've got customers all over the world," he said.

In 1997, Mr. Turner sold CNN to Time Warner and became one
of the richest men in the country. He was so rich, and so
mad about U.S. arrears to the United Nations, that he
wanted to buy $1 billion of the debt and sue Congress for
repayment.

You can't sue Congress, his lawyers told him. So Mr.
Turner decided to give $1 billion to fund U.N. programs:
$100 million a year for 10 years.

In 22 months, Mr. Turner has funded $237 million in polio
and Guinea worm eradication, wildlife preservation,
minefield clearance, birth control and dozens of other U.N.
efforts.

An additional $14 million of Mr. Turner's money has gone
toward cheerleading for the United Nations, including a top-
drawer lobbying campaign that last year helped accomplish
what he set out to achieve: Congress has agreed to pay
nearly $1 billion in back dues.

The U.N. flag now flies in Washington, next to the Stars
and Stripes, on the roof of an eight-story building housing
Mr. Turner's United Nations Foundation.

"It's the only place in Washington flying the U.N. flag,"
said Tim Wirth, the former Colorado senator and diplomat
who is president of the foundation.

Mr. Turner states his reason simply: "I love the United
Nations."

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http://dallasnews.com/national/55097_TURNER26.html

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Subject: [BPR] - Giving computers a sense of touch
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 09:20:04 -0500

Updated: Sunday, Mar. 26, 2000 at 20:14 CST

Giving computers a sense of touch
By Daniel Sorid
N.Y. Times News Service

Drill in hand, the dentist pushes down on the tooth, feeling its firmness,
its ridges, its curves. Then the dentist turns on the drill and ever so
carefully starts chipping away the tooth decay.

That's how it usually goes. But in this instance, it is all right to push
that drill into a perfectly healthy part of the tooth, sending pearly white
chunks a-flying. Why? Because there is no real tooth, no drill, not even a
patient; it is all a demonstration of an aspect of virtual reality known as
haptics, or virtual touch.

Virtual touch relays tactile sensations to the body in computer-generated
environments. allowing a dentist, for example, to feel a tooth that isn't
there.

Those who experience virtual touch find the experience jarring at first. "If you
haven't felt the sensation of touching something that isn't there, it has a
strong psychological effect that you don't expect until you've done it," said
Mike Bevan, managing editor of VR News, a trade magazine.

Full Story:
The Star-Telegram,
http://www.star-
telegram.com/news/doc/1047/1:COMP12/1:COMP120326100.html

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Subject: [BPR] - Bunker Mentality
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 09:24:32 -0500

SALIENT FACTS: TITAN I

Bunker Mentality

Somewhere in Washington State lies a vast impregnable fortress that claims
to be the safest data-storage center in the world. But don't try popping by for
a visit. By MICHAEL D'ANTONIO Photographs by JIM APPLETON

HACKERS AND HAND GRENADES In the wake of hacker attacks that
recently paralyzed several popular Internet sites, security has become an
urgent priority for technology companies of every variety. Many of them are
updating systems already in place; others are installing new precautions.
But electronic safeguards are only half the battle. "You want to shut down an
Internet company?" asks Robert H. Anderson, head of the information-
sciences group at the Rand Corporation. "Do it the old-fashioned way. Blow
up their damn building."

Mindful of this low-tech threat, some of the most security-conscious firms
have turned to Titan, the one cyberstorage building that can't be blown up.
Ever.

The venture was the brainchild of Putnam Pierman, an Ohio businessman
who toured the government's decommissioned Titan missile command center
at the former Larson Air Force Base in Moses Lake, Wash., in 1994.

At the time, he had never visited the World Wide Web -- or sent or received
an e-mail. But he decided to turn the windowless 166,000-square-foot
monolith into a terror-proof data repository and network operations center.
Today, customers of the completed facility get their own individual vault (built
to department of Defense standards for top-secret documents) that can be
equipped to store disks and documents or as computer operations centers
staffed by their own employees.

DO NOT ENTER
Behind the series of security doors at the entrance to the Titan I, the
bunker is an eerily silent place that is part movie-set war room and part
maximum security prison. Anything coming in or out of the compound, from
software to technicians, is subjected to rigorous inspection for any
hazardous or unauthorized materials.

Titan is in "X-Files" country; fewer town residents mean less "civil unrest,"
say company representatives. It is surrounded by a perimeter fence and
patrolled by security personnel.

The building is tremorproof, fireproof and impervious to even the most
powerful tornado. Its three-foot-thick concrete walls, reinforced with steel and
lead, could withstand a truck bomb the size of the one that brought down the
Murrah Building in Oklahoma City or the force of a 10-megaton atomic
explosion just one-quarter mile away. Two 650-megawatt generators and a
four-hour battery system stand ready to provide power if commercial supplies
are cut. Two heating and cooling systems provide hospital-quality filtered air.

AND DO NOT VISIT OUR WEB SITE
Titan is also fortified against electronic infiltration. Its computers are
not normally open to Internet traffic, which means they cannot be breached
by Web-based attackers. Those clients who require Internet access for their
own on-site systems have the benefit of multiple high-capacity electronic
connections, backed up by an auxiliary microwave system in case the
connections fail. And if the microwave system fails, a direct link to
communications satellites will also be available. The compound's own
internal computer systems are protected by a continually upgraded, multiple-
fire-wall software defense system. The entire building, and all the computers
inside it, are shielded by an anti-electromagnetic pulse system.

BUT HURRY, SPACE IS LIMITED
Many government agencies and high-tech companies who want their
identities kept secret already occupy the bunker, and more are signing up;
according to Pierman, the facility is filling up so quickly that he has already
identified other cold-war structures to convert. Titan I's service can cost
hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. But according to William Burns of
Micron PC.Com (a new subscriber), it is an unavoidable expense, given
consumers' demand for uninterrupted service under any circumstances.
"Some organizations have Kevlar walls in their data centers," says Burns. "Is
going this next step necessary? I think so."

And what's the next step after that? Could Titan I withstand a nuclear attack
directed at it? "Of course, not a direct nuclear hit," Pierman says. "But we
had a major aircraft manufacturer come in as a client. They did a study of
what would happen if a 747 crashed into the building. They said there would
be substantial damage -- not to us, but to the aircraft."

The New York Times,
http://www10.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/20000326mag-
salientfacts.html

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Subject: [BPR] - Save Iridium
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 09:25:51 -0500

24 March 2000: Save Iridium

http://www.saveiridium.com/

"Who we are: Save Our Sats is a group of concerned individuals
joining together with the common goal of creating the world's first
orbiting Open Source public network.

We believe that destroying orbiting resources worth billions of dollars is an
egregious error of epic proportions. With effort, dedication, money and
commitment, we can save these 66 satellites and turn them into a network
that will serve the people who utilise it in ways yet unimagined by today's
current technological standards."

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Subject: [BPR] - Source of Earth's Hum Revealed, Space Symphony Possible
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 18:46:59 -0500

Source of Earth's Hum Revealed, Space Symphony Possible

By Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
posted: 10:18 am EST 26 March 2000

Competing with the natural emissions from stars and other
celestial objects, our Earth sings like a canary -- it
drones on in a constant hum of a gazillion notes. If it
were several octaves higher, and hence, audible to the
human ear, it could probably drown out the noise from a
hundred TV talk shows.

In recent years scientists have used seismographs to sort
out these subsurface sound waves from earthquakes (all
seismic waves are, essentially, the in-ground equivalent of
sound waves). But what causes the hum, which researchers
call the background-free oscillation, has been a mystery.

The apparent answer, revealed in the March 24 issue of the
journal Science, is as surprising as the hum itself.

Kiwamu Nishida of the University of Tokyo's Earthquake
Research Institute has, along with colleagues, analyzed 10
years of seismic data and tied the seismic waves to similar
oscillations in the atmosphere.

Inaudible sound waves in the lower atmosphere push and
pull on the ground, the researchers say, creating coupled
"sound" waves, or seismic waves, inside Earth. The initial
source, as yet not determined, could be changes in
atmospheric pressure. The researchers also did not rule out
possible oceanic sources, such as pounding waves, as the
cause of Earth's hum.

The strange-but-true solution was first proposed in 1997
by Naoki Kobayashi, a theorist at the Tokyo Institute of
Technology and co-author of the new paper.

A space symphony?

Because Mars and Venus are both solid bodies with
atmospheres, Nishida told SPACE.com that our two nearest
planetary neighbors are probably humming too, creating a
miniature symphony in space.

"Because the density of these atmospheres is different,
amplitudes of the 'sound' might be different," Nishida
said. "On the other hand, the amplitudes [within the
planets] might be similar to that of the solid Earth."

The sounds are below 10 millihertz, whereas 10,000
millihertz is about the lowest audible to the human ear.
Which means you can't hear the hum. Good thing, because the
discordant sound has been described by one geophysicist as
"a very messy noise."

http://www.space.com/science/planetearth/space_symphony_000323.html

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