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kennedy

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:52:42 GMT

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Kennedy during a 1967 visit to the Mississippi Delta where he found children starving in windowless shacks.

Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and his brother, President John F. Kennedy, conferring at the White House.

Kennedy discussing the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. with press secretary Frank Mankiewicz on April 4, 1968.

Amazon.com: He was a Presidential candidate for less than 100 days - why does the name Bobby Kennedy continue to resonate today?

The Future

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:50:40 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is a special report that appeared on Forbes on 10.15.07 and has an impressive list of visionaries talking about the future. highly recommended reading. click the names to read the visions

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hat happened to the future? Weren't things supposed to be cooler by now, smarter, safer? Raised on a steady diet of science fiction, overzealous politicians and corporate hype, Americans expected to be living in The Jetsons -- but instead find themselves stuck in a scarier version of The Waltons.

The truth is that people simply aren't very good at predicting the future. It was only two centuries ago that we began to think we could do it at all, and we're still learning. Hindsight may be 20/20, but foresight remains largely blind.

Visionaries

What were you sure would happen, but didn't? What totally surprised you?

Joel A. Barker
Wendell Bell
Stuart Brand
David Brin
Pat Cadigan
James Canton
Ed Cornish
Esther Dyson
Scott W. Erickson
Frank Feather
Jacque Fresco
Harry Harrison
Hazel Henderson

Sohail Inayatullah
William Knoke
Richard Lamb
John Mahaffie
Syd Mead
John Naisbitt
Nicholas Negroponte
Bob Rogers
Rudy Rucker
Paul Saffo
Robert Sawyer
Stephen Wolfram

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Gnooks - Literature Map/Discussions/Finder

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:56:51 GMT

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32 Sci-Fi Novels You Should Read

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:08:21 GMT

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32 Sci-Fi Novels You Should Read

Foundation - Isaac Asimov

The Time Machine - H.G. Wells

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick

Animal Farm - George Orwell

War Of The Worlds - H.G. Wells

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

The Minority Report - Philip K. Dick

Neuromancer - William Gibson

Pattern Recognition - William Gibson

Accelerando - Charles Stross

I Robot - Isaac Asimov

Stranger In A Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein

Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut

The Giver - Lois Lowry

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea - Jules Verne

Ringworld - Larry Niven

More Than Human - Theodore Sturgeon

Spook Country - William Gibson

Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom - Cory Doctorow

Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Dune - Frank Herbert

Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson

The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

1984 - George Orwell

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

Ender’s Game - Orson Scott Card

A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

The Andromeda Strain - Michael Crichton

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Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:19:55 GMT

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100 Best Novels- By Readers

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:55:11 GMT

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ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand

THE FOUNTAINHEAD by Ayn Rand

BATTLEFIELD EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard

THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee

1984 by George Orwell

ANTHEM by Ayn Rand

WE THE LIVING by Ayn Rand

MISSION EARTH by L. Ron Hubbard

FEAR by L. Ron Hubbard

ULYSSES by James Joyce

CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller

THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald

DUNE by Frank Herbert

THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS by Robert Heinlein

STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND by Robert Heinlein

A TOWN LIKE ALICE by Nevil Shute

BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley

THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger

ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell

GRAVITY'S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon

THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck

SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut

GONE WITH THE WIND by Margaret Mitchell

LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding

SHANE by Jack Schaefer

TRUSTEE FROM THE TOOLROOM by Nevil Shute

A PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving

THE STAND by Stephen King

THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN by John Fowles

BELOVED by Toni Morrison

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A sad, sweet poem out of America: Robert Frank

Mon, 05 May 2008 08:03:10 GMT

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n 1955, the Swiss photographer Robert Frank traveled throughout the United States by car and returned with a bleak portrait of what the American road had to offer. As Kerouac writes in his introduction, Frank's photographs had "sucked a sad, sweet, poem out of America," a sadness found in the forlorn looks of dime store waitresses, funeral attendees, and human faces rendered unrecognizable in the glare of jukeboxes. The slightly offset angles and the blurred focus of many of the photographs suggest the nervousness and dislocation of the people they capture. Frank dispels any romantic notions of the lingering pioneer spirit of America by presenting a landscape of people and places absent of hope and promise.

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It's not easy being a billionaire

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:06:24 GMT

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I suspect there is no such thing as having enough money. In fact, many of the super-rich agree that the more you have the more you worry about it. Their stories emerge in a great book, "Richistan," by Robert Frank.

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ASeattle billionaire I once worked for ran into money trouble a couple of years ago when his business went sour.

He had to sell his private island and get rid of his yacht (one of the world's largest) as he slid into relative poverty.

My former employer, a cell phone magnate, has now dropped off the bottom of the most recent Forbes magazine list of billionaires as he struggles to get by. He has only a few hundreds of millions left and he is not a happy man.

Despite the extraordinary wealth of this entrepreneur and others in his league, it never seems to bring them serenity. They know how fast it can be lost, and that makes them ask, "Why isn't enough really enough?"

Even custodians of old fortunes are plagued by this question. A consultant friend of mine who once advised Nelson Rockefeller remembers hearing him complain of his recurring bouts of insecurity.

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Life's Little Mysteries

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:28:51 GMT

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Why do women wear high heels? Why are soft drinks in round containers while milk cartons are rectangular? And why did kamikaze pilots bother with helmets? Here, ROBERT H FRANK uses economics to explain the weird and wonderful situations we encounter in everyday life.

The short answer seems to be that women in heels are more likely to attract favourable notice.

"Men like an exaggerated female figure," writes fashion historian Caroline Cox. The problem is that if all women wear high heels, such advantages tend to cancel out.

Why did kamikaze pilots wear helmets?

One reason is that in at least some instances, kamikaze pilots survived their missions. Another is that planes commonly experienced severe turbulence before reaching their targets, and in these cases Japanese military commanders had clear reasons for wanting their pilots to be adequately protected.

Most popular first names!

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:33:27 GMT

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Security officials meet in Munich

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:18:24 GMT

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The annual Munich security conference is set to open amid a US push for Nato allies to expand their missions in Afghanistan and for an Eastern European-based missile defence system that has angered Russia.

In its 44th year, the two-day meeting, which opens on Saturday morning, is used by defence experts and policymakers for frank exchanges.

Robert Gates, the US defence secretary; Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Nato secretary-general; Mohammed ElBaradei, the UN nuclear watchdog chief; and Sergei Ivanov, Russia's first deputy prime minister; are among about 60 senior officials who are expected to be on hand.

Security was tight on Friday, with 3,700 police on hand and entire sections of the business hub of Munich blocked off near the Bayerischer Hof hotel, where the meeting will be held.

About 300 demonstrators protested under the motto "against the Nato war conference" outside the security zone.

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Classic Illustrators

Sat, 29 Dec 2007 01:30:23 GMT

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House Resolution Vote Ramadan Yea, Christmas Nay

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 07:18:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Another nine Democrats chose to vote "present." They are: Rep. John Conyers (Mich.), Rep. Barney Frank (Mass.), Rep. Rush Holt (N.J.), Rep. Donald Payne (N.J.), Rep. Allyson Schwartz (Pa.), Rep. Jan Schakowsky (Ill.), Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.), Rep. Peter Welch (Vt.) and Rep. John Yarmuth (Ky.).

Each of them supported the Ramadan resolution except for Rep. Lee, who did not vote.

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Democrats who supported a House resolution to honor Ramadan voted against a similar resolution to honor Christmas and Christianity last night.

18 Democrats voted “nay” or “present” on a resolution to “recognize the importance of Christmas and the Christian faith.” An eagle-eyed Republican House staffer points out that those same members, with one exception, voted to “recognize the commencement of Ramadan,” a Muslim religious observance in October.

Nine Democrats voted against the Christmas resolution. They are: Rep. Gary Ackerman (N.Y.), Rep. Yvette Clarke (N.Y.), Rep. Diane DeGette (Colo.), Rep. Alcee Hastings (Fla.), Rep. Barbara Lee (Calif.), Rep. Jim McDermott (Wash.), Rep. Robert Scott (Va.), Rep. Pete Stark (Calif.) and Rep. Lynn Woolsey (Calif.).

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Would You Marry for Money? (And If So, How Much?)

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 00:48:05 GMT

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Robert Frank’s wealth column

ooks at the growing number of men and women who want to tie the knot for assets, rather than love.

According to a survey by Prince & Associates, a Connecticut-based wealth-research firm, the average “price” that men and women demand to marry for money these days is $1.5 million. The survey asked people nationwide: “How willing are you to marry an average-looking person that you liked, if they had money?”

The column sites an infamous personal ad posted on Craigslist this summer, in which a twentysomething New Yorker who described herself as “spectacularly beautiful” wrote that she was looking for a man who made at least $500,000 a year. She’d tried dating men earning $250,000, but that wasn’t “getting me to Central Park West,” she said. (One investment banker replied that since his money would grow over time but her beauty would fade, the offer didn’t make good business sense.)

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Welcome to Richistan, USA

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:23:05 GMT

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Welcome to Richistan, USA

The American Dream of riches for all is turning into a nightmare of inequality. But a backlash is brewing, reports Paul Harris in New York

As the rest of the country struggles to get by, a huge bubble of multi-millionaires lives almost in a parallel world. The rich now live in their own world of private education, private health care and gated mansions. They have their own schools and their own banks. They even travel apart - creating a booming industry of private jets and yachts. Their world now has a name, thanks to a new book by Wall Street Journal reporter Robert Frank which has dubbed it 'Richistan'. There every dream can come true. But for the American Dream itself - which promises everyone can join the elite - the emergence of Richistan is a mixed blessing. 'We in America are heading towards 'developing nation' levels of inequality.

· 'Affluent' is Richistani for 'not really rich'. According to Frank, you need about $10m to be considered entry-level rich.

Tags: wealth, class, inequality

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kennedy

The Future

Visionaries

Gnooks - Literature Map/Discussions/Finder

32 Sci-Fi Novels You Should Read

32 Sci-Fi Novels You Should Read

SignalPatterns.com song titles

100 Best Novels- By Readers

A sad, sweet poem out of America: Robert Frank

It's not easy being a billionaire

Life's Little Mysteries

Why did kamikaze pilots wear helmets?

Most popular first names!

Most Popular Given Names, 1880–2006

Girls

Security officials meet in Munich

Classic Illustrators

House Resolution Vote Ramadan Yea, Christmas Nay

Would You Marry for Money? (And If So, How Much?)

Welcome to Richistan, USA

Welcome to Richistan, USA