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...e gently entwined the ebony rosary beads between his fingers, crossed himself in the supplicant tradition, and kissed the crucifix as he closed his ... ...e Vatican, the spiritual responsibility of guiding over one-billion Catholics in the area of faith and morals. This was his time to commune with his... ... hate and guilt. He had become morose and irritable, the least little thing set him off. His colleagues tiptoed around him. He had never been late... ...e?" he spit out the words. "Senator, there's an old saying, ‘The truth will set you free’." "You give me religious clichés!" the Senator's eyes s... ...x waved off the rest of the reporters clamoring to get their face on national television. "You'll have many more opportunities for your questions i... ...gan. Walter was not ready yet. "Alex is booked on all the Sunday morning news shows. We're trying to get a feeling for the type of questions he'll be... ...atment. This is a national emergency. Drugs are being portrayed in movies and television as recreational, a way to have a good time and forget their... ... 191 J.Cross/Artemis CHAPTER 19 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA The dark, night covered the parade of ex... ... "The message, 'I'll meet with you, A.A.' is so stupid, I'll be amazed if he shows...I'm sure he'll be expecting Artemis." Brand nodded. "Good." ...

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...first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....

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...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name ev...

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...From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of cra...

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... Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family i... ...We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make se... ...The Eighth Wonder of the World‖ Although as late as 1980, Linotypes still set 80 percent of the world’s text, most of those once-wondrous machines w... ...current Information Technology revolution got underway, those experiences set me looking into the hidden history of information technologies that pre... ...tal system.  The Great Wall that stretched farther than from New York to Los Angeles.  The 1,103-mile Grand Canal ‗s locks could lift boats up in... ...ightbulb 1880  Electricity distribution 1906–1919  Radio 1920s  Television 1930s (or sooner)  Punch cards to input and externally store ... ...on in just three years. While Kemeny worked on the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, his boss for a year was Nobel Prize-winner Richard Feynman, wh... ...of the twenty-first century:  Satellite TV gave people access on their television sets to real reporting of images and information on CNN, Al Jaz... ...e comparison from when I first began to buy paperbacks, back around 1955, shows that during pretty much the entire 1940s–1950s the price we paid for ...

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...Table of Contents IN THE HOTEL 8 LOOKING FOR HAPPINESS 10 WE MUST THINK MORE DEEPLY—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING 20 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS 24 -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES -- 24 SELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 CONCEPTS OF G...

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... 0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Sea... ...ychological Motivations 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Sea... ...s what much of science and most of education is all about. If we can get a better grasp of the appropriate sciences and develop an appropriate set of... ... happened to us in the past and somewhat by our present day thinking. I assume you are aware of the brain imaging work by neuroscientists that shows ... ...e and our civil laws are based on that premise. But is it true? Some say what we consider to be free will is merely an illusion. Some research shows ... ...n the brain often takes priority over the logical section of the brain. This has an effect on our buying habits, our preferences for films and televi... ...und toy. He inserted electrodes into the rats‘ pleasure centers then showed his rats how to trip a switch and get an electric ‗high.‘ Then he set up... ... the street corner businessmen guarantee you happiness when you buy their mind altering wares. And the marketing of sex in books, movies, and televi... ... remember one time she, and a very short classmate of hers dressed in a tuxedo, and with her in her best formal, appeared on the floor of the Los An...

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... a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERR...

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...HE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992... ...Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERRORISM EVOLVES 71 3.1 From t... ...d al Shehri, checked in and boarded American Airlines Flight 11, bound for Los Angeles.The flight was scheduled to depart at 7:45. 4 In another Logan ... ... at least the metal content of a .22-caliber handgun.Anyone who might have set off that detector would have been screened with a hand wand—a procedure... ...he work to Argenbright Security. 13 The checkpoint featured closed-circuit television that recorded all passengers, including the hijackers, as they w... ... of the X-ray machine and proceeded through the first metal detector. Both set off the alarm, and they were directed to a second metal detector. Mihdh... ...right Security. Like the check- points in Boston, it lacked closed-circuit television surveillance so there is no documentary evidence to indicate whe... ...s down but we do not have a pilot report that did it. 233 As this exchange shows, Secretary Rumsfeld was not in the NMCC when the shootdown order was ... ...linder, then discovered it to be bogus. 49 But while the effort failed, it shows what Bin Ladin and his associates hoped to do. One of the al Qaeda re...