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Well, that is one hell of a fact finding mission you went on there. This page and this image would disagree with your assessment. SD looks about the same, pipeline avoids established reservations. Didn't look at Iowa.

Well, Critics of Kyoto talks say air now a commodity.

As of Wednesday, November 07, 2001.

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Many of their phone-specific pages cite the manufacturer as the only data source. This includes a phone I'm playing with at the moment, which happens to have one of the worst SAR ratings on the ewg.org list. (Worse than the Blackberry.) I followed their link, and it brought me to a user manual, which did in fact show the same values shown on the list.

Call me paranoid, but that didn't really satisfy me. For one thing, I don't trust user manuals all that much when it comes to fine details that might have changed since they were written. For another, this phone supports several different radio frequencies, including Wi-Fi and several different GSM bands, yet the manual and ewg.org fail to reflect this with multiple SAR values. So, I looked up the FCC ID for my phone and followed it to the FCC's radiation report on that model. What I found was much more informative.

As you might expect, the FCC's SAR measurements showed quite a range of values, depending on which radio is in use, which channel is in use, and how the phone is held. According to this data, my particular phone habits and service provider should yield around half the SAR that was reported by ewg.org, comparable to their best-rated models.

This exercise was interesting, and set my mind at ease a little, but I'm still going to use a wired headset whenever possible. Again, call me paranoid if you like. There simply hasn't been enough time for us to observe the long-term effects of having a microwave broadcast antenna plastered to our heads, and I don't trust studies that claim all is well when they're funded by the cell phone industry.

Some of you might find this US Senate hearing interesting:
http://appropriations.senate.gov/webcasts.cfm?method=webcasts.view&id=2a7f2e87-68a0-48a3-b16b-08ac1b98cc42
http://www.c-spanarchives.org/program/288879-1
http://www.mapcruzin.com/news/cell-phone-health-effects-hearing.htm

DU rounds (most often as Armor Piercing Fin Stabilized Depleted Uranium Discarding Sabot) are indeed nasty. In some cases, radiation measured at the outside of the shipping container exceeds 0.5 mR/Hr.

On the other hand, it has better penetration, at longer ranges, than titanium core ammo.

I imagine the concerns for the folks using this ammo run something like...
1) Do I need the advantages of this ammo enough to load/use it?
2) If so, what is it going to do to my (future progeny)?

I wouldn't even imagine that "what about the locals" even enters into it, particularly if it looks like those same "locals" are shooting at you at the time.

As for the locals resenting the US military on the basis of uranium rounds? Love it if you'd point me to a specifically reported case of it. After all, they have so many other reasons to resent the US military ("Infidels!", for instance) that it's hard to settle on something so particular.

If you're thinking "Iraq", you might consider that's the same place that locals stole radioactive material and used it for decorations, or dumped it in the sewer when they found it was bad for them.

So what you're saying is, everyone should drop whatever they're doing, no matter how finely developed their insights and efforts, and start working on the same issue. That sounds like a great idea.

And there are, just like multiple approaches on what to do in life, multiple approaches on why we are where we are. Plenty of people think it has to do with plants. Just read the review at http://www.mapcruzin.com/rev_botany_desire.htm But I guess in your view, humans evolved to do nothing but eat meat.

• Some toxic sites in Mountain View, CA
• Mountain View, CA plume map

• Some toxic sites in Mountain View, CA
• Mountain View, CA plume map

This is utter BS. There are numerous articles (one example) and documents that prove that the US (not the people, but the current and past administrations) have been raiding Africa for years. Please do your research before commenting, and substantiate your comments.

The Hill Newspaper has confirmed that Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) has an ownership stake one of the largest manufacturers of voting machines in the country. (Hagel's ethics filings pose disclosure issue)

Several others have alleged the role of this company, Election Systems & Software, in several surprising Republican upsets recently, including the defeat of Max Cleland, formerly a popular Democratic Senator from Georgia.

See:
If You Want To Win An Election, Just Control The Voting Machines
Peter Coyote on voter fraud

po_boy wrote: I refuse to believe that in the few thousand years since humans started being "civilized" that we have caused more animal species to become extinct than in the few million years before that. Unless species are becoming extinct at several thousand times the previous rates of extinctions, this is pretty much impossible.

well, If you "refuse to believe" then you are mindlessly dogmatic and debate with you is pointless... but, on the offchance that you were just being melodramatic when you employed that damning phrase, I'll present an argument here. Even if you refuse to believe what you don't like to hear, others who have been misled by your dogma may ne more open minded.

Widley accepted figures indicate that current rates of extinction are 100 times the "natural" rate and climbing to something between 1,000 and 10,000 times the natural rate of extinction. According to an article in the Washington Post:

"The speed at which species are being lost is much faster than any we've seen in the past -- including those [extinctions] related to meteor collisions," said Daniel Simberloff, a University of Tennessee ecologist and prominent expert in biological diversity who participated in the museum's survey. [Note: the last mass extinction caused by a meteor collision was that of the dinosaurs, 65 million years ago.]

Most of his peers apparently agree. Nearly seven out of 10 of the biologists polled said they believed a "mass extinction" was underway, and an equal number predicted that up to one-fifth of all living species could disappear within 30 years. Nearly all attributed the losses to human activity, especially the destruction of plant and animal habitats.

Other sources of depressing news you won't want to believe:

According to scientists at the American Museum of Natural History:"This mass extinction is the fastest in Earth's 4.5-billion-year history and, unlike prior extinctions, is mainly the result of human activity and not of natural phenomena." The same scientists note that "In strong contrast to the fears expressed by scientists, the general public is relatively unaware of the loss of species and the threats that it poses." I guess they've been talking to po_boy...

http://www.greenpeace.org/majordomo/index-press-re leases/1997/msg00184.html

http://beacon-www. asa .utk.edu/issues/v78/n2/asteroids.2n.html

http://www.mapcruzin.com/ scr uztri/docs/news0922991.htm

http://www.well.com/user/davidu/ fie ldguide.html

http://www.pupress.princeton.e du/ titles/6276.html

http://www.well.com/user/davidu/ ext inction.html

Hasn't Silicon Valley been heavily dominated by the tech industry since the late 70s to early 80s? I mean, aren't there a bunch of EPA Superfund sites in the area caused by pollution from hardware manufacture, and weren't most of them created during the 80s? I mean, the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition has been around since 1982, and was formed in reaction to groundwater pollution by Fairchild Semiconductor. Doesn't that mean the "high-tech" industry has been there for a looong time?