 DAY ONE:
The Meaning of Life
KEVIN CAREY
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Prompted by recent developments in reproductive technology and research and by the threat of President Bush to overturn Roe versus Wade, KEVIN CAREY argues, in a specially extended essay, that we need both a proportionate moral and legal framework for issues concerning the nature of human life, that the two should not be confused and that President Bush's moral confusion presages a disastrous outcome.
This essay does not permit of a myriad of subordinate clauses which would be allowable and indeed necessary in a monograph or book, but I hope it is detailed enough to overcome some of the generalisations which ruin properly constructed moral and legal arguments. For some people the cases under discussion have such simple answers that they require no debate at all. That is fine so long as their fundamental requirements for themselves are not assumed to be the proper basis for legislation. Equally, others may think that these matters are so personal that they are beyond the bounds of human agreement and must be left totally in the private domain. Surprisingly, perhaps, many people think both of these things in fuzzy alternation. This short essay is an attempt to untangle some of the factors. The word 'right' is placed in single quotes simply because I am not sure that the positions I describe amount to a philosophy that can be summarised in a simple term...
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TABLOID HART:
That Intern Thang
THOMAS HART
 If we have learned one durn thang in the last few years here in the US of A, pardners, I think it is that none of us want any of our daughters to go to Washingtoon, D.C., our nation's capital, and become an intern.
Dollar Bill and Monica Lewinsky was bad and sleazy enough. Now we got Modesto, California congressman Gary Condit and a missing intern, Chandra Levy. Sadly, there ain't a lot of trailer trash humor in the case of Ms. Levy, since she's been missing so long they are lookin' for her remains at this point ... More
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ACCESS Denied
DOUGLAS MC DANIEL
The date is Dec. 13, 2000, and the Internet landscape is teetering on the brink of collapse. But we don't know it yet.
We are secure, successful, on top of the publishing world. Or so we believe. Even as the U.S. Supreme Court is deciding the presidential election for us. We are winners --- or so we believe.
Gathered in a large enough quantity in a hotel meeting room, we, the full-time, well-paid employees of Access Internet Magazine, create a convincing air of confidence, of go-go e-business wiles, high on the Net-savvy narcotic of the zeitgeist vibe, a self-assurance and self-pleased demeanor that would be comic if it weren't so tragic. Looking back at it now, that is. Sure, some of us worried rough times were ahead. At least I did. I'm a worrier, though. Yet, even considering my natural pessimism, it would be hard to imagine how quickly such things can end.... More
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G21 NEWS: Having been awarded Hero of the Russian Federation (Russia's highest honor ), member of both French and Russian orders, pilot-cosmonaut Sergey Avdeyev celebrated in orbit New Year and his birthdays (he was born on 1 January) three times. His wife passed gifts to him by cargo ship beforehand, with the inscription: "Open on 31 December". And she never knew which of their friends would give her gift from her husband.
Sergey Avdeyev holds the record for most time accumulated in space. In his three missions he was off Earth 747 days and had nine walkouts in space with a total length 41 hours. ... "Longest in Space: The G21 Sergey Avdeyev Interview" RADIK KAGIROV More
RECOMMENDED DAILY REQUIREMENT: : Tanya and I honeymooned in Lake Tahoe, up in the high Sierras, one of the most beautiful places in Cali. I read about the World Tour of our publisher, Mr. Rod, with a sense of delight and foreboding. The Man was doing one of his transformations and I was thinking about the Law of Sevens. The Law of Sevens says that every 7 years people have a new life. They become someone else. That definitely fits what I've come to know about my home-slice Rod... "Brother from Another Planet" RADIO RAHEEM More
RDR 07.16.01: G21 Alumnus JEFF WINBUSH interviews an Internet sexworker "For Your Pleasure"
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RDR 06.18.01: ROD AMIS gives the first installment of his Serbian Diary "Tesla's Dreams"
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MY GLASS HOUSE: 22 July, 2001 - NEW ORLEANS - It's been two months since I left the United States to go on my latest World Tour. It's been two weeks since I returned to America from Serbia. And in these two weeks I have endured pain akin to the pain of being born... I guess I should have expected as much. But some of the things that have happened have made me redefine what I believed friendship to be.
In at least one instance, a person who I willingly helped a little over a year ago, when I was flush, couldn't bring himself to let me hold $50 for a week's time. I had to marvel at that. Instead, he wanted to act like my Dad and ask me what I planned to do now that I'd returned to America. If I planned to stay put this time. I thought that was awfully ballsy for a mere fifty bucks... "Butterfly Soul" ROD AMIS More
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Congratulations! You made it back for another week for the feast. This artwork is from the cover of our dear friend Dragan Vicanovic's THIRD EYE magazine, published in Belgrade. Our publisher envies this man his covers. But we digress!
