“George W. Bush has officially told the people of New York City that as far as he’s concerned, they can drop dead. And thanks to his lies, many of them will.

With his latest attack on the Clean Air Act he’s said the same to millions more.

Bush has used the 9/11 ‘trifecta’ to build his popularity, fund the military and tear up the Bill of Rights. But the GOP’s cynical uses of the tragedy have gone to a new level.

The White House directly interfered with planned Environmental Protection Agency warnings about the toxic fallout from the World Trade Center explosions. It had ‘competing considerations’ that came before protecting the health of the people of New York. Among them were re-opening the stock exchange as quickly as possible, and limiting clean-up costs and liability claims.” The Free Press

Office of Naval Research to unveil the ‘matchbox’ atomic clock: “It loses only one second every 10,000 years.. In October 2003 the Office of Naval Research will unveil the performance of the next-generation, super-accurate clock no bigger than a matchbox. The Ultra-miniature Rubidium (Rb) Atomic Clock, 40 cubic centimeters in volume and using a minuscule one watt of power, doesn’t weigh much more than a matchbox either. And… it will lose only about one second every 10,000 years.”

Using cellophane to convert a laptop computer screen into a three-dimensional display: Abstract: “We present a novel, inexpensive, stereoscopic technique for generating 3D displays from cellophane and a laptop computer screen. Stereoscopy requires independent manipulation of the left and right eye views.1 Our technique takes advantage of two facts; the first is that the light from the liquid crystal display of a laptop computer is polarized light 2, and therefore we can easily manipulate its transmission with a polarizer sheet. The second fact is that a cellophane half-waveplate can change the direction of polarization of light. The direction of polarization of one half of the laptop screen was rotated by the cellophane half-waveplate. Two images displayed with orthogonal polarization on two halves of the screen become separable by wearing a pair of glasses of orthogonal polarization.”