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God knows they deserve it:

Mr. Kaczynski came to be known as the Unabomber after the Federal Bureau of Investigation's code name for the case, Unabom, coined because the targets included universities and airlines. In his 18-year bombing campaign Mr. Kaczynski seemed bent on thwarting the advance of technology, and his victims included university professors, scientists and business executives

One victim who is not seeking restitution, David Gelernter, a professor of computer science at Yale, said in a letter to the court that he hoped "the criminal's property will be destroyed, or (if need be) sealed for a century at least and then made available at no charge to scholars of depravity."
"My wife and I are outraged that the court has decided to turn the sale of this criminal's property into a circus - or (more accurately) into a P.R. bonanza, starring the criminal himself," Mr. Gelernter wrote. "Why have you decided to help vicious misfits with cash to burn lionize this evil murderer?"

Serge F. Kovaleski/NYTimes 22.Jan.07
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David Gelernter - from the September 13, 2004 issue of the Weekly Standard:

It's obvious not only that George W. Bush has already earned his Great President badge (which might even outrank the Silver Star) but that much of the opposition to Bush has a remarkable and very special quality; one might be tempted to call it "lunacy." But that's too easy. The "special quality" of anti-Bush opposition tells a more significant, stranger story than that.

Bush's greatness is often misunderstood. He is great not because he showed America how to react to 9/11 but because he showed us how to deal with a still bigger event - the end of the Cold War. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 left us facing two related problems, one moral and one practical. Neither President Clinton nor the first Bush found solutions - but it's not surprising that the right answers took time to discover, and an event like 9/11 to bring them into focus.

In moral terms: If you are the biggest boy on the playground and there are no adults around, the playground is your responsibility. It is your duty to prevent outrages--because your moral code demands that outrages be prevented, and (for now) you are the only one who can prevent them.

Mr. Gelernter's prose continues thus for many paragraphs.
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Figure 1. Departure of temperature from average (in Centigrade) for the week (Sun-Thu) [14-18.Jan.07.] The western U.S. is suffering the worst winter cold of anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere. Europe and northern Asia continue to feel record-breaking warm temperatures.
Note that the area of most extreme below-normal temperatures occurred over San Antonio, Texas, where the world's largest meeting of meteorologists was being held!

Jeff Masters 19.Jan.07
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The technophiles are taking us all on an utterly reckless ride into the unknown. Many people understand something of what technological progress is doing to us yet take a passive attitude toward it because they think it is inevitable.

Kaczynski Industrial Society and Its Future
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IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage
Full Report in English available online
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The winds whipped rain across Europe in the middle of an unusually warm winter.
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In fact, as we have seen, Murray was indeed a Cold War warrior - not, perhaps, as prominent a player as some, but a player nonetheless. He received steady funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, which had served as cover for his trip with Cantril to the Soviet Union for the CIA in 1958, and from the National Institute of Mental Health, also known to be a covert funding conduit. He apparently worked for HumRRo. He served as an adviser on army-sponsored steroid experiments. He helped found Harvard's Social Relations Department, which had been generously funded by covert intelligence agencies. He served the U.S. Army Surgeon General's Clinical Psychology Advisory Board and the National Committee for Mental Hygiene with the CIA's propagator of LSD, Frank Fremont-Smith. Along with Fremont-Smith, Abramson, and Leary, he occupied a spot on the agency's LSD pyramid.

And in 1959, Murray would cap off a long and distinguished career with the last of a series of studies inspired by his OSS assessments and originally undertaken for the U.S. Navy Department. And Ted Kaczynski would participate.

Alston Chase, from Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist
Frank Olson Legacy Project