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... The problems we face today don't call for shallow understanding and short attention spans. They demand minds that can tolerate dull details, and maintain focus when wading through abstruse subject matter. Unparalleled access to information only does so much to solve problems, absent comprehension and perspective ...

Along with the Internet's "information overload" has come the vastly expanded ability of people to contact other people. Now, anyone can email anyone in the world. And with email signatures containing contact information, or by asking someone to call you, more and more people are getting your phone number and calling you.Email is very democratic; it doesn't distinguish between your mom, your employer, or a random press release sent from some organization 3,000 miles away. Sure there are ways to filter emails, but they all come to you in some capacity. There isn't yet a sophisticated way to filter out...

"The greatest single threat to human health since the discovery of AIDS". In particular, the release of a "transgenic nematode" (genetically altered and enhanced nematode) ,and subsequent trillions of releases since 1996 into the environment, via a loophole in United States law. The Law See: http://www.isb.vt.edu/epasrc/enacted/epa.gui.txt Evidence of its use See: http://www.aphis.usda.gov/brs/arthropod/permits/9605201r/9605201r.html

INFORMATION OVERLOAD by Cindy Furnare "Attention all personnel..report to your battle stations. I repeat --- report to your battle stations." Sounds official alright, but if you don't know what to do at your battle stations; you're going to lose the battle. It's just that simple. Our society is suffering from information overload. In my opinion, we need to examine this problem and fix it quick. We will never win The War On Terror if we don't know how to connect the dots and utilize information to its maximum potential. Let's address the most often heard complaints regarding information overload and...