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... © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-0-1 3 Table of Contents THE RETURN FROM SPACE ...................................................... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-0-1 3 Table of Contents THE RETURN FROM SPACE ................................................................. ............................................................................ 4 THE GOOD LIFE .............................................................. ........................................................................... 11 FROM THE PAST AND INTO THE FUTURE .......................................... ...table for underground cities. But there is no place in our solar system as ‘people friendly’ as our own Earth.” —“What made you volunteer for the... ...n our planet. In Sarajevo, Bosnia. Kofi Anan, the Secretary General of the United Nations made the trip to the Balkans to celebrate, with trepidatio... ... in the cities. Here in California our population will double to 60 million people in the first half of this century. Most of this growth occurs bec... ...enough ash to cover the state of California under 6 meters of ash. We are entering a geologic era where Yellowstone should erupt again. Then there... ...for religious purposes, a tea that contained an hallucinogenic drug that is banned in the U.S. and throughout most of the world, the U.S. Supreme Co...

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...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name every...

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... economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current...

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