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...Regulatory Authority, reminded everyone that in 2001 his organization had raised the prospect of a blackout just before the August Olympic Games. "Sadly, that has been confirmed," he said in a local radio interview. But Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, who heads the Athens organizing committee, insisted "such an incident cannot affect the Games. All our venues have uninterrupted power supply systems." So at least in theory, if another blackout occurred next month, the backup system would make the Olympic venues islands of light in a darkened city. Last week's blackout was the most dramatic in Europe so far this year...
...begins Gao's slow reformation. Upon learning of the wheel of karma, wherein the things we do in this life affect our reincarnated form in the next, Gao travels Japan as a wandering monk's acolyte. Along the way he discovers his own talent for sculpting. Meanwhile Akanemaru has a vision of the Phoenix, a bird who represents the eternal reborning of all life. His carving of the bird earns him a commission from the emperor to oversee the construction of a giant Buddha. Eventually, after many more twists, Gao and Akanemaru meet for the last time in a contest...
...endangering the welfare of a child—Ariane’s little sister, who’d witnessed the robbery. By this point we were grumpy and uncomfortable. We didn’t understand the wording of the law. It was a tacked-on charge, guaranteed not to affect the sentence. But no one wanted to back down. Arguments reached a fever pitch, and suddenly came a sharp rap on the door: Time to break for the day. The jury groaned, unanimously...
...come to look back on its hugely successful first week the way we now think of the televised presidential debate between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon, as a moment when we grasped for the first time the potential of a mass medium--in this case, movies--to affect American politics in new ways. If that's the case, expect the next generation of campaign strategists to precede every major election not only with the traditional TV ad buys but also with a scheme for the rollout of some thermonuclear book, movie, CD or even video game, all designed to tilt...
...forward march of information technology is any indication, markets will come to play an increasingly important role. No matter the industry, companies are ultimately in the business of predicting the future: what a consumer will buy, where a product can be made most cheaply, how new laws might affect profit margins. There is such an undisputed advantage to knowing the future that corporations employ analysts and strategists, create committees and reports, conduct polls and pilots--all to figure out what will, and should, happen next. As HP's Huberman puts it, "A company that can predict the future...