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Articles by Russell Seitz
A Long Row To Hoe
16 Feb 2006
Like the solar and wind energy franchises already on offer, biofuel suffers from sheer lack of real estate.
Space Jam
15 Dec 2005
Tell Qaddafi, it's a First Amendment thing.
Photoshopping the Apocalypse: The Gods Are Angry with Michael Crichton
13 May 2005
As in "Nuclear Winter" the dark skies arise not from physics but software jockeys.
The Last Wave
13 Jan 2005
The cruel sea that decimated surfers last month left the next generation a gift
"Send it, and We'll Figure Out How to Use It."
21 Dec 2004
So what could Santa deliver to good kids spending the holidays under fire?
What If It Ended at the Beginning?
13 Dec 2004
Few totalitarian movements outlive their infamy. Atrocities that stagger the imagination stem from ideas that repel the mind. Russell Seitz rethinks the consequences of 9/11 and where we are in the War on Terror.
Armor and the Man
26 Oct 2004
The arsenals of democracy contain more than arms. If Europeans won't stand up to the likes of Zarqawi themselves, they can and should provide scarce armor to those who will.
Terrorism in Ship Shape
06 Aug 2004
If the new maritime security regime achieved 99.9% success on paper, it would still leave a megaton of shipping unaccounted for in reality. Those dozing on the sand this summer may dream of ships on the horizon sailing to Byzantium, but just one incoming from Basra could bring a rude awakening. Osama Bin Laden is certainly no Sinbad, but the Jolly Roger is still a flag of a thousand faces.
The Catastrophic Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
28 May 2004
"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact."
Pumping Iron
28 Apr 2004
Brace yourself for the shock of good news about the environment.
London Calling
21 Nov 2003
Red Ken Livingstone has rolled up the carpet at City Hall.
Exit Strategy for the Mean Streets
19 Nov 2003
Sometimes the best of all exit strategies is to see to it that your former enemies have one of their own.
The Prodigal Sun
06 Nov 2003
New respect for the elephant in the room -- the one with the sunglasses and the tan.
Rumble in the Jungle
15 Oct 2003
A continent is a terrible thing for an accredited diplomat to misplace.
Twin Peaks
09 Oct 2003
Why models and the predictions they give rise to are doomed to perpetual obsolescence.
Pilgrim's Progress
01 Oct 2003
"We are as Gods, so we better get good at it."
They ALSOS Served
21 Jul 2003
Fathoming the nuclear ambitions of hostile powers has never been easy.
Pandora's Cornucopia
02 Jul 2003
Right now, 50 kilograms of 50 dollar bills can buy the equivalent of the Hiroshima bomb.
Cold Burn
13 Jun 2003
Let Jeremy Rifkin scowl - the spontaneous self-correction of science is a joy to behold.
Remember the Alamaut
05 Jun 2003
100 days is not time enough to harrow the deserts of Mesopotamia for the detritus of a despot's arsenal.