Volume 9, Number 10
8/28/2006
Edited by John L. Petersen
johnp@arlingtoninstitute.org

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In This Issue:

Punctuations - By John L. Petersen
Future Facts - From Think Links
Think Links - The Future in the News…Today
A Final Quote

At The Arlington Institute, we believe that to understand the future, you need to have an open mind and cast a very wide net. To that end, FUTUREdition explores a cross-disciplinary palette of issues, from the frontiers of science and technology to major developments in mass media, geopolitics, the environment, and social perspectives.

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PUNCTUATIONS
by John L. Petersen

From where I sit, here at this nexus of incoming streams of information from many sources about early indicators of potential future events, things are definitely heating up.

There seems to be an acceleration of the number of significant events that point toward big change in the near future. At TAI we watch many different trends, but the most significant ones are climate change and the possibility of a rapid shift in the world’s weather, the peaking of the global supply of oil and the attendant emergence of a new energy era, a major disruption in the world’s financial system, a global pandemic and, of course, the possibility that terrorism will escalate to a much higher level. There are other areas that interest us, like the dwindling supply of drinking water and technology trends, but the big ones get most of our attention.

The possibility of a major disruption in the world’s financial system sometime after January 2008 is a subject that doesn’t get nearly as much ink as oil and climate, but the effects – particularly if it is as widespread as some observers believe – could really be profound.

We recently had a world expert on the converging fundamentals that are driving toward large-scale financial failure give a seminal presentation on the subject at The Arlington Institute. Dr. David Martin, president of M-CAM, the global leader in intellectual property valuation, certainly got the attention of the international audience assembled here with his step-by-step assessment of what was in the works and what likely scenarios would fall out of the inevitable collision. We’ve made it a podcast that you can download from our website. I would strongly encourage you to listen to this most interesting talk. We’re planning to have more of these talks at The Arlington Institute. We’ll keep you informed of them in the future.

All of the trends that we are following seem to me to be symptoms of some larger, historic shift that is taking place on the planet. I’ve talked about it in speeches as an approaching punctuation in the “equilibrium” of the present era – a major, fundamental reordering of the essence of who we are and how we live. These big shifts have happened many times in the past evolution of life on earth and if one tracks the historical pattern of these epochal events, it is rather easy to suggest, as philosopher Peter Russell and others do, that another one is fast approaching.

Many people attempt to explain the essential nature of this revolution in esoteric, new-age terms, almost all of which leave me unsatisfied. In the face of recommendations to “meditate more”, as the essential preparation one should make in anticipation of large-scale systems failure, I keep believing that there are additional things that we should be doing to support ourselves in the coming years. Others appear to be thinking the same way as evinced by the number of interesting new initiatives popping up that represent very basic social shifts. The Post Carbon Institute (www.postcarbon.org) has an interesting “relocalization” initiative designed to help deal with the systemic failures that they believe will inevitably result from reaching the peak in oil production. You can learn more at www.relocalize.net.

In terms of attempting to understand the really essential nature of what’s going on, the best book that I’ve found is Daniel Pinchbeck’s 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl. Be warned: this is a rich, deep, drug-enabled, intellectual exploration that quickly wanders out of the box of conventionality and smack into huge ideas that, if you buy them, will certainly change the way you live the rest of your life. If the punctuation in the equilibration necessarily results in a new world that makes no common sense in the terms that define the preceding era (this one), then Pinchbeck’s wonderfully articulated concepts certainly qualify as one of the most interesting possibilities for the next era. Very provocative.

If you are interested in taking one more big step out into the dark of what the new world could hold, pick up Whitley Strieber’s The Key. Whitley’s had his share of strange happenings in his life, and this is another one – but he swears that it really happened. In any case, if you’re into transcendent thought-provoking ideas, this little book is full of them.

Best wishes for the rest of your summer.

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FUTURE FACTS - FROM THINK LINKS
DID YOU KNOW THAT...

• The Chinese government has enlisted more than 37,000 peasants to man anti-aircraft guns in an effort to alter weather patterns.
• Estimated monthly changes in the mass of Greenland's ice sheet suggest it is melting at a rate of about 57.3 cubic miles per year.
• A blimp system for the Pentagon, which will be three-fourths the size of a football field, is expected to have its first test flight in 2010.
• In China, the average number of text messages sent per month has exceeded 25 billion.

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THINK LINKS – THE FUTURE IN THE NEWS...TODAY

INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE

Online Volunteers Roll up Their Sleeves -- (CNN -- August 23, 2006)
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/08/23/online.volunteering.ap/index.html
Cannot volunteer onsite? Just pop up a web browser! Online volunteering is growing as Internet access improves worldwide, particularly among African and Latin American organizations needing assistance.

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NEW REALITIES

Irish Company Challenges Scientists to Test 'Free Energy' Technology
Is Virtual Life Better Than Reality?
China Rolls Out Big Guns, Aiming for a Dry Olympics
Universe Might Be Bigger and Older Than Expected
Strange 'Twin' New Worlds Found

Irish Company Challenges Scientists to Test 'Free Energy' Technology -- (Yahoo News -- August 18, 2006)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060818/sc_afp/irelandscienceenergy_060818141011
An Irish company has thrown down the gauntlet to the worldwide scientific community to test a technology it has developed that it claims produces free energy. The company, Steorn, says its discovery is based on the interaction of magnetic fields and allows the production of clean, free and constant energy -- a concept that challenges one of the basic rules of physics. It claims the technology can be used to supply energy for virtually all devices, from mobile phones to cars.

Is Virtual Life Better Than Reality? -- (CBS -- July 31, 2006)
http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn8466
When reality gets hard to take, there's an escape to a parallel universe — a virtual world without end where real people create online personas called avatars. Anything is possible. And, while the reality may be virtual, real money is changing hands among the players in these games. An estimated $1 billion worldwide is spent by users buying and selling virtual goods, such as furniture for virtual houses and clothing for their avatars.

China Rolls Out Big Guns, Aiming For a Dry Olympics -- (USA Today -- August 29, 2006)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-06-29-china-rain_x.htm
Peasant gunners, manning old 37mm anti-aircraft guns, are working with meteorologists watching radar in the capital. Together, they will hunt pregnant rain clouds and pound them with rockets containing silver iodide. The hope is that any moisture will fall before the clouds can threaten the parade of athletes and lighting of the Olympic flame at the new National Stadium.

Universe Might Be Bigger and Older Than Expected -- (SPACE -- August 07, 2006)
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060807_mm_huble_revise.html
A project aiming to create an easier way to measure cosmic distances has instead turned up surprising evidence that our large and ancient universe might be even bigger and older than previously thought. If accurate, the finding would be difficult to mesh with current thinking about how the universe evolved.

Strange 'Twin' New Worlds Found -- (BBC -- August 3, 2006)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5241774.stm
A pair of strange new worlds that blur the boundaries between planets and stars have been discovered beyond our Solar System. A few dozen such objects have been identified in recent years but this is the first set of "twins". Dubbed "planemos", they circle each other rather than orbiting a star. Their existence challenges current theories about the formation of planets and stars.

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GENTICS/HEALTH TECHNOLOGY

Cancer Cell Executioner Found
From a Poet's Failing Sight, a Novel 'Seeing Machine'
Doctors Test Ways to Grow Knee Cartilage
Fastest-Evolving Human Gene Linked to Brain Boost
FDA Approves Viruses as Food Additive
Frozen Mice Have Healthy Pups

Cancer Cell Executioner Found -- (BBC-- August 27, 2006)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/5284850.stm
Scientists have developed a way of "executing" cancer cells. Healthy cells have a built-in process for this - they commit suicide if something is wrong, a process which fails in cancer cells. Researchers have created a synthetic molecule that causes cancer cells to self-destruct. Cancer experts said the study offered "exciting possibilities" for new ways of treating the disease.

From a Poet's Failing Sight, a Novel 'Seeing Machine' -- (New York Times-- May 23, 2006)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/23/health/23visi.html?<br>ex=1306036800en=bf9ed1af5ead2196ei=5088partner=rssnytemc=rss
A poet and artist has enlisted the help of scientists and engineering students to create a "seeing machine" that may eventually help people like her, with severely impaired vision, to read, look at pictures and explore landscapes and buildings.

Doctors Test Ways to Grow Knee Cartilage -- (CBS -- August 21, 2006)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/21/ap/health/mainD8JL11AO0.shtml
Doctors are testing new ways to spur cartilage to regrow in damaged knees, from implanted "cartilage plugs" to injections of bone-marrow stem cells. The need is huge. Knees are the joint most likely to go bad, and the cartilage that cushions them has only a limited natural ability to repair itself. The question is how to unlock that ability and give it a boost.

Fastest-Evolving Human Gene Linked to Brain Boost -- (New Scientist -- August 16, 2006)
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9767-fastestevolving-human-gene-linked-to-brain-boost.html
The fastest evolving gene in the human genome is one linked to brain development. A study of differences between the human and chimp genomes has identified a gene associated with neural growth in the cerebral cortex – the part of the brain involved in processing thoughts and learning – as having undergone “accelerated evolutionary change”.

FDA Approves Viruses as Food Additive -- (CNN -- August 18, 2006)
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/18/edible.virus.ap/index.html
A mix of bacteria-killing viruses can be safely sprayed on cold cuts, hot dogs and sausages to combat common microbes that kill hundreds of people a year, federal health officials said in granting the first-ever approval of viruses as a food additive.

Frozen Mice Have Healthy Pups -- (BBC -- August 15, 2006)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4793915.stm
Mice kept in the deep freeze for 15 years have fathered healthy offspring, say scientists in Japan and Hawaii. It offers hope to those trying to bring extinct animals back from the dead. In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers wrote: "If spermatozoa of extinct mammalian species (eg woolly mammoths) can be retrieved from animal bodies that were kept frozen for millions of years in permanent frost, live animals might be restored by injecting them into oocytes from females of closely related species."

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NANOTECHNOLOGY

Researchers Develop New 3D Nanomaterial
Nano Probe May Open New Window into Cell Behavior

Researchers Develop New 3D Nanomaterial -- (CNET -- August 22, 2006)
http://news.com.com/2100-11395_3-6108238.html
Scientists said their 3D rendering of thermally stable nanomaterial is a chemistry breakthrough that will open up the field of nanotechnology to more applications. The ability to cast nanopaper into 3D forms will allow the material to be used in protective masks and armor, flame-retardant fabric, drug release capsules and regenerating tissue.

Nano Probe May Open New Window into Cell Behavior -- (Georgia Institute of Technology -- July 24, 2006)
http://www.physorg.com/news72969002.html
Researchers have created a nanoscale probe, the Scanning Mass Spectrometry (SMS) probe, that can capture both the biochemical makeup and topography of complex biological objects in their normal environment -- opening the door for discovery of new biomarkers and improved gene studies, leading to better disease diagnosis and drug design on the cellular level. The new instrument may help researchers better understand cellular interactions at the most fundamental level from the organ scale down to tissue and even the single cell level.

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GLOBAL EPIDEMIC

Glaxo Claims Bird Flu Breakthrough
Bird Flu Scare at Rotterdam Zoo After Two Owls Die
Climate Linked to Plague Increase

Glaxo Claims Bird Flu Breakthrough -- (CNN -- July 28, 2006)
http://www.cnn.com/2006/BUSINESS/07/28/glaxo.vaccine/index.html
In a clinical trial of the H5N1 vaccine conducted by London-based GlaxoSmithKline, the company found that 80 percent of the 400 adults involved in the study showed a good immune response to the vaccine when it was given with doses of only 3.8 micrograms of antigen. This is the first time such a low dose of H5N1 antigen has been able to stimulate this level of immune response.

Bird Flu Scare at Rotterdam Zoo After Two Owls Die -- (Yahoo -- August 13, 2006)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060813/hl_afp/healthflunetherlands
Two owls found dead at the Rotterdam zoo may have been infected with the H5N1 strain of bird flu virus that has killed nearly 140 people, according to the Dutch agriculture ministry. A second test returned the same result, while a third is being conducted to determine conclusively whether the owls were infected with H5N1 strain. In 2003 the Netherlands was hit hard by an epidemic of a stronger H7N7 strain which led to the cull of 25 million birds, about one quarter of the country's poultry population at the time. One veterinarian died.

Climate Linked to Plague Increase -- (BBC -- August 2, 2006)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5271502.stm
Climatic changes could lead to more outbreaks of bubonic plague among human populations. Researchers found that the bacterium that caused the deadly disease became more widespread following warmer springs and wetter summers. The bacterium Yersinia pestis is believed to have triggered the Black Death that killed more than 20 million people in the Middle Ages. Presently, around 3,000 cases of plague are reported each year.

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Warning, Storm Ahead ... TNX
This Computer May Be Too Smart

Warning, Storm Ahead ... TNX -- (New Scientist -- July 28, 2006)
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/ptech/07/27/china.storms.phones.ap/index.html
"Typhoon forecast to make land this evening," said the message sent to millions of mobile phones in the coastal city of Jinjiang and surrounding Fujian province. Authorities in Fujian have sent 18 million messages with storm information during five typhoons this year. Text messages have become a key tool for Chinese authorities during this year's unusually powerful typhoon season. Nearly one-third of China's 1.3 billion people have a cell phone, creating a rival to television and radio as a way to reach the public.

This Computer May Be Too Smart -- (Business Week -- July 13, 2006)
http://businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jul2006/gb20060713_595118.htm?chan=top+news_top+news
University of Cambridge scientist Peter Robinson has developed a "mind-reading" computer that can interpret reactions and feelings by analyzing a person's facial movements. Developed in conjunction with researchers at MIT, the computer uses a camera to capture people's facial expressions and then applies sophisticated pattern-matching technology to recognize emotions ranging from confusion to concentration.

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ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

Methane Burps and Heat Waves: Global Warming Made Visible
Drinking Water Pollution Getting Worse in China
Forecast Puts Earth's Future under a Cloud
Antarctic Snowfall Snafu Derails Climate Models
Greenland Melt 'Speeding Up'
Aspen Trees in West Dying
More Frequent Heat Waves Linked to Global Warming

Methane Burps and Heat Waves: Global Warming Made Visible -- (ABC -- August 4, 2006)
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=2274439&page=1
Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder have now figured out how to project the results of global futures scenarios, based on sophisticated computer predictions — fomerly just rows of numbers — as changing colors on a 5-foot sphere with the continents outlined on it. A number of these spheres are now being installed in museums around the United States and the world, so the world can see what it's in for.

Drinking Water Pollution Getting Worse in China -- (China Daily-- July 24, 2006)
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2006-07/24/content_648290.htm
Health threats to China's drinking water are increasing because of the serious contamination of many of the country's water sources. The deterioration of the general water situation on the Chinese mainland means that most of the source water for Chinese waterworks is polluted to some extent. Presently, China's waterworks can only filter out 30% of the organic substances in the water treated - people drink the other 70%.

Forecast Puts Earth's Future under a Cloud -- (Guardian -- August 15, 2006)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1844789,00.html
More than half of the world's major forests will be lost if global temperatures rise by an average of 3C or more by the end of the century. This prediction comes from the most comprehensive analysis yet of the potential effects of human-made global warming. Extreme floods, forest fires and droughts will also become more common over the next 200 years as global temperatures rise owing to climate change.

Antarctic Snowfall Snafu Derails Climate Models -- (Science Agogo-- August 11, 2006)
http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20060711004957data_trunc_sys.shtml
An improved method of measuring Antarctic snowfall has revealed that previous records showing an increase in precipitation are not accurate, even over a half-century. Improved analysis of ice cores and snow pits revealed that precipitation levels in the Antarctic have in fact remained steady.

Greenland Melt 'Speeding Up' -- (BBC -- August 11, 2006)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4783199.stm?ls
The meltdown of Greenland's ice sheet is speeding up, satellite measurements show. Data from a NASA satellite show that the melting rate has accelerated since 2004. If the ice cap were to completely disappear, global sea levels would rise by 6.5m (21 feet).

Aspen Trees in West Dying -- (ABC -- August 11, 2006)
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2303937&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
A conservative estimate is that about 10 percent of the aspen in Colorado may have died or become afflicted with something in the past 5 to 10 years. Possible causes include a fungus, hungry caterpillars, drought, man's interference with the natural cycle of forest fires, and even resurgent herds of hungry elk nibbling saplings to death.

More Frequent Heat Waves Linked to Global Warming -- (Washington Post -- August 04, 2006)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/03/AR2006080301489.html
Heat waves like those that have scorched Europe and the United States in recent weeks are becoming more frequent because of global warming, say scientists who have studied decades of weather records and computer models of past, present and future climate.

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TERRORISM, SECURITY AND THE FUTURE OF WARFARE

Building a Better Limb
Physicists Draw Up Plans for Real 'Cloaking Device'
Custom-Built Pathogens Raise Bioterror Fears
America's War on the Web
War Crimes Act Changes Would Reduce Threat ff Prosecution
Which Travelers Have 'Hostile Intent'
Military Blimps Report for Duty
US Begins Building Treaty-Breaching Germ War Defence Centre

Building a Better Limb -- (U.S. News -- July 23, 2006)
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/health/articles/060723/31arm.htm
Until Iraq, companies had little incentive to develop high-performance prosthetics, since most of the country's approximately 1 million people missing a limb are older and often frail victims of diabetes or vascular disease. But wounded U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq are young, athletic, and impatient -- and have no intention of quietly retiring on disability. Much of the new research is being funded by the Defense Department -- including a $48.5 million program that aims to build a "thought controlled" arm by 2009 that's as strong and agile as Luke Skywalker's in Star Wars.

Physicists Draw Up Plans for Real 'Cloaking Device' -- (New Scientist -- May 25, 2006)
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=dn9227&feedId=online-news_rss20
Physicists have drawn up blueprints for a cloaking device that could, in theory, render objects invisible. Light normally bounces off an object's surface making it visible to the human eye. But John Pendry and colleagues at Imperial College London, have calculated that materials engineered to have abnormal optical properties, known as metamaterials, could make light pass around an object as so it appears as if it were not there at all.

Custom-Built Pathogens Raise Bioterror Fears -- (Washington Post -- July 31, 2006)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/30/AR2006073000580.html
In 2002, a molecular geneticist startled the scientific world by creating the first live, fully artificial virus in a lab. It was a variation of the bug that causes polio, yet different from any virus known to nature. The virus was made wholly from nonliving parts, using equipment and chemicals on hand in a small laboratory at the State University of New York. The most crucial part, the genetic code, was picked up for free on the Internet. Hundreds of tiny bits of viral DNA were purchased online, with final assembly done in the lab.

America's War on the Web -- (Sunday Herald -- April 02, 2006)
http://www.sundayherald.com/54975
At the Pentagon, technologies are being deployed to wage the war on terror on the internet, in newspapers and even through mobile phones. The US wants to take control of the Earth’s electromagnetic spectrum, allowing US war planners to dominate all forms of modern communication. At the flick of a switch, entire countries could be denied access to telecommunications resources.

War Crimes Act Changes Would Reduce Threat of Prosecution -- (Washington Post -- August 09, 2006)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/08/AR2006080801276.html
The Bush administration has drafted amendments to a war crimes law that would eliminate the risk of prosecution for political appointees, CIA officers and former military personnel for humiliating or degrading war prisoners, according to U.S. officials and a copy of the amendments. Officials say the amendments would alter a U.S. law passed in the mid-1990s that criminalized violations of the Geneva Conventions, a set of international treaties governing military conduct in wartime. The conventions generally bar the cruel, humiliating and degrading treatment of wartime prisoners without spelling out what all those terms mean.

Which Travelers Have 'Hostile Intent' -- (Wall Street Journal -- August 14, 2006)
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB115551793796934752-<br>2hgveyRtDDtssKozVPmg6RAAa_w_20070813.html
At airport security checkpoints in Knoxville, Tenn. this summer, scores of departing passengers were chosen to step behind a curtain, sit in a metallic oval booth and don headphones. With one hand inserted into a sensor that monitors physical responses, the travelers used the other hand to answer questions on a touch screen about their plans. The trial of the Israeli-developed system represents an effort by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration to determine whether technology can spot passengers who have "hostile intent."

Military Blimps Report for Duty -- (Washington Post -- August 07, 2006)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/06/AR2006080600499.html
In the era of $300 million fighter jets, satellite-guided rockets and complicated battlefield computer networks, the US military is interested in reviving an old-fashioned technology: the blimp. The military's interest is driven by a search for cheap alternatives to satellites and unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones. Some low-flying versions are already in Iraq, Afghanistan and along the U.S.-Mexico border.

US Begins Building Treaty-Breaching Germ War Defence Centre -- (Guardian -- July 31, 2006)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1833795,00.html
Construction work has begun near Washington on a vast germ warfare laboratory intended to help protect the US against an attack with biological weapon, but critics say the laboratory's work will violate international law and its extreme secrecy will exacerbate a biological arms race. The National Biodefence Analysis and Countermeasures Centre (NBACC), due to be completed in 2008, will house heavily guarded and hermetically sealed chambers in which scientists simulate potential terrorist attacks.

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CONTACT AND THE EXPLORATION OF SPACE

Japan Aims for Manned Moon Station in 2030
India's Cut-Price Space Program
Mysterious Quasar Casts Doubt on Black Holes

Japan Aims For Manned Moon Station in 2030 -- (Physorg -- August 02, 2006)
http://www.physorg.com/news73714331.html
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) hopes to launch a satellite into lunar orbit next year, followed by an unmanned spacecraft that will land on the moon and a probe ship that will collect samples from the moon. Under the plan, the astronauts will be sent to the moon by around 2020 so that they will start construction of the base to be completed by 2030.

India's Cut-Price Space Program -- (Wired -- August 14, 2006)
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/space/0,71399-0.html?tw=rss.partnerfeed
Tthe Indian Space Research Organisation, or ISRO, is in the planning stages to send its first probe, the Chandrayaan-1, to map and photograph the surface of the moon. Over the next few years, the agency also intends to introduce two new heavy-lifting rockets and establish extensive telecommunications networks that will link even the most remote regions of the country.

Mysterious Quasar Casts Doubt on Black Holes -- (New Scientist -- July 27, 2006)
http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn9620&feedId=online-news_rss20
A controversial alternative to black hole theory has been bolstered by observations of an object in the distant universe. If correct, it might mean black holes do not exist and are in fact compact balls of plasma called MECOs. A rare cosmological coincidence allowed researchers to probe the structure of the quasar in much finer detail than is normally possible. Those details suggest, contrary to established belief, that the central object within the quasar is not a black hole.

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DEMOGRAPHICS AND SOCIAL CHANGE

Overweight Top World's Hungry -- (BBC -- August 15, 2006)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4793455.stm
There are now more overweight people across the world than hungry ones, according to experts. Researchers told the International Association of Agricultural Economists the number of overweight people had topped 1 billion, compared with 800 million undernourished. Obesity is rapidly spreading, while hunger is only slowly declining among the world's 6.5 billion population.

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A FINAL QUOTE...

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday. ~Dennis Gabor, Innovations: Scientific, Technological and Social, 1970

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A special thanks to Hanna Adeyema, Bernard Calil, Ken Dabkowski, Neil Freer, Humera Khan, KurzweilAI, Richard May, Sher Patterson-Black, Diane Petersen, John C. Petersen, the Schwartzreport, Joel Snell, Matthew W. Sollenberger, and Jin Zhu our contributors to this issue. If you see something we should know about, do send it along - thanks.
johnp@arlingtoninstitute.org