Short Takes: News From All Over: January 1, 2004

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The Real Dubya Action Figure
Not since the Gumby has there been a doll as agile as Mad Magazine's George W. Bush GI Joke action figure. This guy not only bends over backward for special interests, his head fits someplace warm and cozy. You'll just have to see it for yourself. -- Erin Ferdinand
http://www2.warnerbros.com/madmagazine/files/onthestands/ots_437/6.html

Population Bomb or Whimper?
By Peter Deselaers, Inter Press Service
Predicting world population trends is an inexact science to say the least. But an optimistic new estimate by the U.N. has the world's population leveling out at about 9 billion by 2300. Far short of the massive 'population bomb' environmentalists have long predicted. A more pessimistic estimate, on the other hand, says that if growth continues at its current rate, the earth would have 134 trillion inhabitants in 300 years, or 10 people per square foot. -- Adam Overland
http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=21480

J.M. Coetzee's Nobel Lecture
Read the story that won the Nobel Prize in Literature, 2003, by J.M. Coetzee. A touching piece of ducks and men, machines of death, and life sailing by on rough seas. -- AO
http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/2003/coetzee-lecture-e.html

GI Joe: A Real American Hero
Maybe this is what it really means to be a 'Real American Hero.' Camus would no doubt be proud of the absurd, random, often incomprehensible ramblings of these characters. All one can do is laugh. -- AO
http://www.dreamwill.net/giwoah/

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