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...maybe Microsoft would integrate AOL's Instant Messenger into the upcoming rethink of Windows and abandon its own anemic instant-messaging program. That might finally persuade AOL to kill off its Netscape browser, which everyone knows hasn't really worked for a few generations. Then AOL could officially adopt Microsoft's Internet Explorer. See how easy it is to play ball together...
...Macedonian mob that drove President Boris Trajkovski from the parliament building late Monday was enraged that NATO and the European Union had forced him to adopt a new cease-fire with a rebel movement that NATO's own leaders had dubbed "terrorists," "extremists" and "murderers" only a few weeks ago. But the mob wasn't simply calling for a more robust counterinsurgency effort against the ethnic-Albanian guerrillas that had menaced the capital for weeks; they were baying for blood and vowing to drive all ethnic Albanians out of the city. If that hatred translates into random attacks on ethnic...
Clearly, the President now needs to move toward a Son of Kyoto that re-engages the international community. The plan should include three key elements. It must allow emissions trading, in order to reduce costs and induce all nations to participate. It must ask developing countries to adopt a ceiling against which their reductions can be measured. (For the trading currency to have value, it must be scarce.) And finally, its mechanisms must encourage actions that reduce emissions for the long term, not just an initial period...
...colleagues at Cybertronics Manufacturing. "I propose that we build a robot who can love...a robot that dreams." Hurrah and alas, his dream is realized. Two years later, Cybertronics has assembled the perfect child, "always loving, never ill, never changing," and has found a potentially ideal couple to adopt him--or try him out. But we know the danger of answered prayers. Real life is messy; love can break your heart. Even the heart of a "toy boy" like David, who will be abandoned by the one he loves most and have to face a brutal world before...
...Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography by Peter J. Conn "I read The Good Earth, like everybody else did, probably in high school, but there are a lot of things about her that I didn't know. For instance, she started Welcome House, which was one of the first adoption agencies that allowed Americans to adopt interracial children from all over the world...