PMMJ (cheetahmaster) wrote,
PMMJ
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Interesting story on how our Taliban 'enemy combatant' prisoners and other post-9/11 decisions will affect American POWs. (The short answer is, the Geneva Convention is a good idea.)

Also, Rumsfeld complains 24-hour war coverage skews perceptions. Don't get me started here.

NEWS:
* War coverage just another form of reality TV?
* Are we seeing the wave of the future in backpack journalism?
* Orwell comments on the war.
* A brief analysis of the upcoming urban warfare in Baghdad.
* In the first PC war, we even took down the American flag we hoisted over Umm Qasr after its liberation.
* More on tracking SARS, this time in China.
* The practical (and close) future of nanotechnology.
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