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First, Seven More eTexts from Project Gutenberg of Australia:
Nov 2001 The Island of Desire, by Robert D Frisbie [RF#01][010026xx.xxx]0026A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/0100261.txt ]
Nov 2001 Anne of Windy Poplars, by L M Montgomery [LM#01][010025xx.xxx]0025A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/0100251.txt ]
Nov 2001 Llana of Gathol, by Edgar Rice Burroughs [EB#05][010024xx.xxx]0024A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/0100241.txt ]
Nov 2001 Synthetic Men of Mars, by Edgar R Burroughs[EB#04][010023xx.xxx]0023A
[Author's full name: Edgar Rice Burroughs]
[http://gutenberg.net.au/0100231.txt ]
Nov 2001 Swords of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs [EB#03][010022xx.xxx]0022A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/0100221.txt ]
Nov 2001 A Fighting Man of Mars, by Edgar Burroughs [EB#02][010021xx.xxx]0021A
[Author's full name: Edgar Rice Burroughs]
[http://gutenberg.net.au/0100211.txt ]
Nov 2001 The Mastermind of Mars, by Edgar Burroughs [EB#01][010020xx.xxx]0020A
[Author's full name: Edgar Rice Burroughs]
[http://gutenberg.net.au/0100201.txt ]
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Mar 2002 Fashions in Literature, by C. D. Warner [CW#13][cwfltxxx.xxx]3109
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Jul 2003 Quotations From Diary of Samuel Pepys, by Widger [dwqspxxx.xxx]4202
Jul 2003 Literary Friends, by W. D. Howells, Entire [WH#57][whelfxxx.xxx]4201
Jun 2003 Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1666 N.S. Complete [SP#56][sp56gxxx.xxx]4171
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May 2003 Angel in the House, by Coventry Patmore[Patmore#2][anghsxxx.xxx]4099
May 2003 On the Trail of Grant and Lee, Frederick Hill [xtlglxxx.xxx]4098
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May 2003 Alice of Old Vincennes, Maurice Thompson [aovnnxxx.xxx]4097
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09/05/01 27 22.2
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08/22/01 21 22
08/15/01 30 22
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INTEL ANNOUNCES ANOTHER TECHNOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGH
Intel has developed a new structure and material for making transistors,
enabling the chipmaker to pack more and faster circuits onto silicon chips,
while reducing heat and power consumption. The new technology, dubbed "the
terahertz transistor," will enable Intel to develop chips with capabilities
such as real-time voice and face recognition. The company says the
terahertz transistors will be as small as 15 nanometers across, compared
with the 70 nanometers currently possible. Some elements of the new
technology will begin appearing in Intel chips as early as 2005. (Wall
Street Journal 26 Nov 2001)
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB100672410132137880.htm (sub req'd)
SEARCH ENGINES DIG TOO DEEP
Search engines increasingly are unearthing private information such as
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and not blocked to search engines in any way. The primary burden falls to
the people who are incorrectly exposing this information. But at the same
time, we're certainly aware of the problem , and our development team is
exploring different solutions behind the scenes." (CNET News.com 26 Nov
2001)
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7946411.html?tag=lh
FLASH CARD
"Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility
on him, and to let him know that you trust him." (Booker T. Washington)
WORTH THINKING ABOUT: LIFESTYLES AND CHOICES
NewsScan Daily subscriber Lynn Kearny writes: "I was really glad to
see ideas from "The Lexus and the Olive Tree" featured in Worth Thinking
About. I've gotten a lot of things worth thinking about from reading
Friedman's book. Here is the concept that I find resonates most in my mind
since reading it, and even more so since the events of 9/11:
"Olive trees are important. They represent everything that roots us,
anchors us, identifies us and locates us in this world -- whether it be
belonging to a family, a community, a tribe, a nation, a religion or, most
of all, a place called home. Olive trees are what give us the warmth of
family, the joy of individuality, the intimacy of personal rituals, the
depth of private relationships, as well as the confidence and security to
reach out and encounter others. We fight so intensely at times over our
olive trees because, at their best, they provide the feelings of
self-esteem and belonging that are as essential for human survival as food
in the belly. At worst, though, when taken to excess, an obsession with our
olive trees leads us to forge identities, bonds and communities based on
the exclusion of others, and at their very worst, when these obsessions
really run amok as with the Nazis in Germany or the Serbs in Yugoslavia,
they lead us to the extermination of others.
"Conflicts between Serbs and Muslims, Jews and Palestinians,
Armenians and Azeris over who owns which olive tree are so venomous
precisely because they are about who will be at home and anchored in a
local world and who will not be. Their underlying logic is: I must control
this olive tree, because if the other controls it, not only will I be
economically and politically under his thumb, but my whole sense of home
will be lost. I'll never be able to take my shoes off and relax. Few things
are more enraging to people than to have their identity or their sense of
home stripped away. They will die for it, kill for it, sing for it, write
poetry for it, and novelize about it. Because without a sense of home and
belonging, life becomes barren and rootless. And life as a tumbleweed is no
life at all.
"So then what does the Lexus represent? It represents an equally
fundamental, age-old human drive -- the drive for sustenance, improvement,
prosperity and modernization -- as it is played out in today's
globalization system. The Lexus represents all the burgeoning global
markets, financial institutions and computer technologies with which we
pursue higher living standards today. Yet, for millions of people in
developing countries, the quest for material improvement still involves
walking to a well, plowing a field barefoot behind an ox or gathering wood
and carrying it on their heads for five miles. These people still upload
for a living, not download.
"For millions of others in developed countries, though, this quest
for material betterment and modernization is increasingly conducted in Nike
shoes, shopping in integrated markets and using the new network
technologies. While different people have different access to the new
markets and technologies that characterize the globalization system, and
derive highly unequal benefits from them, this doesn't change the fact that
they are the defining economic tools of the day and everyone is either
directly or indirectly affected by them...
"What we are looking at and for is how the age-old quests for
material betterment and for individual and communal identity -- which go
all the way back to Genesis -- play themselves out in today's dominant
international system of globalization. This is the drama of the Lexus and
the olive tree."
FLASH CARD
"Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness
that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds
are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs." (Christopher Morley)
HONORARY SUBSCRIBER: ALBERT SCHWEITZER
Today's Honorary Subscriber is Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), who
gained fame in his lifetime as a musician, philosopher, theologian, and
medical missionary.
Born in Kaysersberg, a town near Strasbourg (then part of Germany),
he was educated at the universities of Strasbourg, Paris, and Berlin. His
1899 doctoral thesis in philosophy was on the religious philosophy of
Immanuel Kant and a year later he received a second doctorate in theology.
In 1906 he would publish "The Quest for the Historical Jesus" to begin the
worldwide attention paid throughout his lifetime to his research, lectures,
and writings in philosophy and theology.
When he was 21 Schweitzer decided on the course for his life. For
nine years he would dedicate himself to the study science, music, and
theology, and then he would devote the rest of his life to serving humanity
directly. In 1900 he was ordained as the curate of the Church of Saint
Nicholas in Strasbourg and a year later became principal of the theological
seminary there. By the age of 30 he was a respected writer on theology, an
accomplished organist, and an authority on the life and work of Johann
Sebastian Bach, whose compositions he performed in the simple, undistorted
style that subsequently became the performance standard.
In 1904 Schweitzer was inspired to become a medical missionary and in
1906, despite the protests of family and friends, he enrolled in medical
school. In 1912, toward the end of his medical studies, he married Helene
Bresslau, also an accomplished scholar, who studied nursing in order to
share her husband's work.
In 1913 the Schweitzers sailed for French Equatorial Africa with
medical supplies and 2,000 gold marks they had raised for the construction
of a hospital at Lambarene on the Ogowe River in French Equatorial Africa,
in what is now the republic of Gabon. Over the years his hospital grew into
a large, world-renowned institution that served thousands of African
patients. When his humanitarian work earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in
1952, he used his $33,000 award to expand the hospital further and to build
a leper colony.
Because he was a German citizen, Schweitzer was twice interned by the
French during World War I. He used these interruptions in his missionary
work to reflect on civilization and to seek a fundamental principle for his
philosophy. He adopted "Reverence for Life" as the key to understanding the
universe and the human mind and spirit, a world view he then set forth in
his 1923 book, "Philosophy of Civilization." For Schweitzer, reverence for
life included not only human life but also all other living things.
Schweitzer died at age 90 in 1965 and was buried at Lambarene in a simple
grave beside his wife who had died in 1957.
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