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31591 doctor disease -- rank: 1000

Kelley Walker wrote: >At 10:14 AM 5/11/01 -0400, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >> However, KPFK, WBAI >>and other 'alternative' stations thrive on feeding newage health witchcraft >>to their post-yuppie audiences, and that witchcraft often involves >>conventional medicine bashing. >> >>wojtek > > >would you mind coming up with some evidence to back up this claim? >do their reports on these matters really come down on the side of >newage healthcar ...

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Date:	Fri May 11 11:13:03 PDT 2001

31592 doctor disease -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >As for the "witchcraft" of alternative medicine: I have not found it >to be witchcraft. And the reason people drift in that direction is >that they wish to be treated as whole beings--not as isolated organs. So that's why they take colon cleansers and eat shark cartilage? Doug

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Date:	Fri May 11 11:24:23 PDT 2001

31593 platform shoes and bear markets -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >The Big Supremes top ten hits were in 64-69. --jks Hmm, well the early 60s were good for stocks, the late 60s not so good. The real value of the S&P 500 was up 48% from 1960-65 - and down 23% from 1965-70. The real S&P was up less than 2% (not annual, but cumulative) from 1964-69. So maybe Prechter's onto something! Riot Grrrl - a mix of punk and girl groups - was early 90s. The first Bikini Kill album came out in '92. Those weren't great years for stocks eithe ...

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Date:	Fri May 11 11:10:16 PDT 2001

31594 Keynes Question -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >Personally, I've always been in favour of default >and let-the-chips-fall-where-they-may. Financial Times - May 10, 2001 COMMENT & ANALYSIS: Default without disruption: Adam Lerrick and Allan Meltzer present a new approach for the IMF to emerging market crises: By ADAM LERRICK and ALLAN MELTZER Now it is one more last chance for Turkey. For the ninth time in the past six years, the arbiters of the international financial system have been confronted with two unpala ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 11 10:27:47 PDT 2001

31595 Fwd: INFO: The Oklahoma conspiracy -- rank: 1000

Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 05:43:23 -0700 (PDT) From: MichaelP <papadop at peak.org> McVeigh 'did not act alone in Oklahoma bombing' The Oklahoma conspiracy Parts 1,2,3 Rather than post the complete 3-part set of pieces, I'm just posting the Introduction. You'll find the remainder at http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=71520, plus contained links, [ The complete story forms a 98k file which I'll be glad to forward to those without web access.] Cheers MichaelP ======== ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 11 10:22:29 PDT 2001

31596 UConn sit-in -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - May 11, 2001 UConn Students Occupy Building in Protest Over Janitors' Pay By JENNIFER JACOBSON A small sit-in at the University of Connecticut's administration building entered its third day on Thursday, and students vowed to remain in the building until the university promises to increase janitors' pay. Andrew Flowers, one of the eight protesters who have occupied the building since Tuesday, said they were willing to miss exams, which begin today, for ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 11 10:15:40 PDT 2001

31597 platform shoes and bear markets -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >>EWT founder Robert Prechter argues that you can analyze the stock >>market by following cultural trends. Punk is bearish. Girl groups are >>popular during corrections. >> >>Doug > >Hence the popularity of Destiny's Child's "Survivor"? But how do you >account for the Supremes? --jks Don't ask me, I'm just the messenger. When were the Supremes in the charts? Doug

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Date:	Fri May 11 10:08:27 PDT 2001

31598 Hitch & the New School -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >Let's hope not, Rakesh...I'd certainly miss your presence here in >Dougs' Salon (a.k.a. LBO-Talk). Don't let Doug bait you like that - >I used to think that Doug was as poor on the rational/logical as he >was good on the empirical, but, if the recent Monthly Review >interview is any indicator, it is clear that Doug is as capable of >logic and reason as the next person :-) What you are subject to >here is the SalonMasters' Ruse of Unreason, doled out in ...

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Date:	Thu May 10 16:02:02 PDT 2001

31599 Cherry pick -- rank: 1000

[posted from non-sub'd address] From: sawicky at epinet.org (Max Sawicky) Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 15:55:35 +0100 Advert for my bud Bob Cherry's latest book -- mbs ================================= WHO GETS THE GOOD JOBS? COMBATING RACE AND GENDER DISPARITIES What do liberals, moderates, and conservatives agree on: the importance of Robert Cherry's Who Gets the Good Jobs? Both affirmative action supporters and critics agree that the book advances our understanding of the issues that divide and t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 10 13:04:21 PDT 2001

31600 Keep the faith. Faith is the spirit. -- rank: 1000

Jack Welch's favorite economist weighs in: <http://www.larrykudlow.com/commentary/042701.htm>

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Date:	Thu May 10 12:38:31 PDT 2001

31601 Detroit most segregated city in US -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: I'm trying to think how they draw the census tracts and whether >if drawn differently , there would be a different result. They're meant to be pretty homogenous. <http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cen_tract.html>: >Census tracts are small, relatively permanent statistical >subdivisions of a county. Census tracts are delineated for most >metropolitan areas (MA's) and other densely populated counties by >local census statistical areas committees follow ...

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Date:	Thu May 10 12:00:44 PDT 2001

31602 Hitch & the New School -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >how do we know this is the real Rakesh, and not >some imposter? Oh, but Max, which of us is really real? And how can we tell for sure? Doug

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Date:	Thu May 10 11:32:59 PDT 2001

31603 gun nuts threaten scholar -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - May 10, 2001 Book on America's Gun Culture Has Its Author Watching His Back By JENNIFER K. RUARK A historian whose recent book challenges the notion that Americans have always loved their guns has had to arm himself with secrecy after receiving anonymous threats. Michael A. Bellesiles has changed his home telephone number and adopted a "stealth" e-mail address to avoid vitriolic personal attacks by people angry about his book Arming America: ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 10 10:53:26 PDT 2001

31604 Hitch & the New School -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Narpat Bhandari wrote: >Um Doug you're the one who forwarded Hitchens' comments which Joanna >Sheldon then astoundingly interpreted as a reasonable defense of the >manner in which the war criminal Kerrey conducted himself in a free >fire zone (though it seems all the firing was in one direction). So >was I wrong to read the comments which you forwarded that way? You >seemed irked by them yourself, but now you get angry at me for also >finding Hitchens irksome! I found ...

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Date:	Thu May 10 10:25:22 PDT 2001

31605 platform shoes and bear markets -- rank: 1000

The wacky Elliott Wave Theorist newsletters - which explain the financial markets using strange wave patterns and Fibonacci numbers - are free this week. (Go to <http://services.elliottwave.com/monthly/> and use the user name "elliott" and the password "rules" - all lower case.) Here's an excerpt from one: >As for the cultural effects of the bear market, they are obviously >much more fully developed there than in the United States. So, Japan >presents a view to ...

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Date:	Thu May 10 09:44:12 PDT 2001