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That may sound a little alarmist, on the basis of three days of DOS attacks on a handful of commercial websites. The danger is real. But as with many terrorist strikes, the fear caused by a faceless attacker has, so far, turned out to be more potent than the attack itself...
...years ago feminist writer Gena Corea offered the seemingly paranoid suggestion that men might eventually keep just a few women around in "reproductive brothels," gestating on demand. A guy will pick an ovum for attractive qualities like smart, tall and allergy-free, then have it inserted into some faceless surrogate mother employed as a reproductive slave...
...really like the rest of us, give him a medal but don't make him President. "I attribute it all to the abuse," says a former Senator after cataloging McCain's explosions. "He has a very short fuse and blows quickly," adds a Senate staff member, part of the faceless choir that has haunted McCain for weeks now. "That would bother me in a President, who has to be disciplined. I do not believe his temper is controlled...
...principle and cynicism is pretty commonplace, but takes us only part of the way to understand the complexity of the debates in Seattle. There are a series of truly unsolved problems. Anti-WTO activists are wrong, as a point of fact, to see the WTO as a faceless bureaucracy setting the world's rules, but they are right that the negotiating process, by which the U.S. and other countries bargain over trade standards, is opaque and mostly hidden from view. Its not the WTO's bureaucracy per se that's the problem, it's the behavior of the member governments...
...WARY of the dozen or so U.S. websites that offer $50-$100 consultations with faceless "virtual" doctors. By law, you don't have to actually see a physician to get a prescription from him. But if the site isn't asking enough questions about you and your family's medical history, your prescription may end up doing you more harm than good...