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Heroes: Prof. Randy Pausch and US Navy SEAL Michael Monsoor

Monday, April 14, 2008

If you haven’t watched the “Last Lecture” yet, it’s time.  I saw it for the first time last week, and was able to watch a news magazine show last week that showed him running practice with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Professor Pausch is a Carnegie Mellon professor who has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and has filmed [...]

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NY Times: GOP Loses Senate Vote on Iraq War Funding!

Friday, November 16, 2007

Had a minute of panic when I saw the NY Times headline, “G.O.P. Loses Senate Vote on Iraq War Funding“. I was afraid that the Democrats had succeed in pushing through their measure to have the troops surrender and retreat before the end of GWB’s term.  Fortunately, they lost on that count, though you’d never [...]

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Sending Submarines South

Tuesday, January 31, 2006

What if I told you that last August, the Navy sent a $2.4 billion dollar nuclear submarine to Central America to listen in on some cell phone conversations? Would you be outraged? Would you want to know whose cell phone conversations and the strategic value of the intercept, or would you just laugh and say [...]

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