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hiya. of course insight into the region is invaluable (check out recently-released Doug Little's "American Orientalism") for long term peace planning, but immediate physical threats need to be addressed with different tools.
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the towers were designed to handle a 707 impact (biggest plane of the day). you CAN design a Tower-Class building to withstand 767 or 747 impacts but it'd be prohibitively expensive. Smaller buildings can of course more easily be made withstand heavy attacks (e.g. Pentagon) but Towers are too big to make truly "terrorist proof".

Mmm...dirty floor-boards.

thanks for the comment... i'm feeling a little better. just needed a boost.

Damn, you are a sweetheart.

I'm happy to share my attitude...

Out this coast, there's no point in waiting for warm weather (although it is actually pretty warm right now) to go diving. The water is in the low 50 degree range all year round. Does the water temp vary a lot out there or is it just too freaky to get in the water when the air temp is so damn cold?

word. i definitely relate to the travel feelings.
and yeah, happy chinese new year to you too. nice picture. i never tire of loving the look of chinese shop signs.

must go to New York. must go to New York. mustmustmust! Whoa, I said must too many times, it looks all weird to me now.. hehe, anyways. I went to New York once and have since just wanted to get back there every day of my life. Who knows, maybe I'd just get sick of it... but I need to find out! I know what you mean about appreciating the people in your life... especially at moments like that. anyways... you're neat, hope you had a good evening.

Ha i love your daily pic updates....im too lazy for that....i jsut have one with 4 flashing pics. ok off to bathe....

away for the weekend. THAT sounds like a plan!

If I were a love slave, yes, I'd love it. But just some whippingboy, nope. Not fun enough.

well damn girl, thats what you get for bathing!

y eah i know the fade feelin....i need to redye mine..i have lots o grey

Ahhh! I love my modern dance class too, I completely relate. We get to roll around and stuff! And I feel so.. I dunno.. graceful doing it. Even if I don't know what the hell I'm doing. It's loverly.

pomagrante jice! cool! did you find that on gothicmarthastewart.com?

My head just popped.....I soooo dont want to get back into school.....but i will

The way you talk all smart is very

I was a psych major at the U of M and when i was taking my major classes I was in honors so had to take mostly grad level clases. I think your field is fascinating cognitive neuroscience phew.

My favortie class was on the psychobiology of vision lots of animal studies to read about though made me sad Poor cats with their brains opened upwhile htey were still alive! The walleye studies I didnt feel so bad about for some reason. Maybe because being from Minnesota I 've eaten too many to feel bad for them.

My advisor also taught the psychology of language and was a cognitive psych researcher. He was great, learned alot about early computer modeling theories. This was years ago and they were fairly unsophisticated.

I just read that Gary kasparov beat deep junior in chess! woot chalk one up to humans! he has 5 more games to go. Phew I am such a nerd.

Yeah. Busy here too. Been putting in 15 hr days again. First time runs of experiments are wrought with little demons running amock, just tackling one at a time but making good progress and learning tons. The scary thing is I'm starting to ENJOY the insanity. Ah well. Yay for random gifts, btw. Those can be a wicked pissa.

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Tick n Tock are cute..i miss my fish tank

somebody said it's supposed to be colder tomorrow!!! i may diiiie.
don't feed them too much, and be sure to talk to them a lot. my folks fish used to commit fishy suicide by jumping out of the tank. it was horrible. made worse by the fact that the fish tank was in the middle of their psychotherapy office.