Martin

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I really like this quote from Colin Powell: What is the greatest threat facing us now? People will say terrorism. But are there any terrorists in the world who can change the American way of life or our political system? Only we can change ourselves.

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I read about parkour a while ago. I think in the New Yorker magazine

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/04/16/070416fa_fact_wilkinson

Just now I looked up the Wikipedia article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkour

certain things about the thought and attitudes underlying parkour impress me

I expect it can also be graceful an beautiful to watch---if not too scary.

Here is the Wikipedia article on CVN carriers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimitz_class_aircraft_carrier

It says that the CVN-77 is expected to be commissioned in late 2008

It says two Westinghouse A4W reactors, with the turbines developing a total of

260,000 ship horsepower. A rough estimate would be 194 Megawatts. Sufficient for a mediumsize city's electric power requirements, I should say.

Beautiful ships.
- June 1, 2008