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Home-meal replacement is the critical battleground between supermarkets and restaurants for consumer food dollars. According to the marketing firm NPD Group in Chicago, of the $691 billion that Americans forked over for food in 1996, 46% was for dishes bought outside the home. And half of that went to takeout. The traditional grocery store is morphing into a catering hall-delivery service. Last month A&P announced that hungry Web surfers can view full menus and in-store specials, and order prepared meals online from one of the company's 700 stores. Restaurateurs are developing delivery systems that...
...contend the additional area is needed for new and advanced weaponry and maintaining combat readiness. "With missiles going farther and planes faster, we need more space," insists Air Force Colonel FRED PEASE. But a coalition of environmental, recreation and peace groups says the reservations would create a giant supersonic battleground where low-flying aircraft and the flares and radar-jamming aluminum-silicon fibers they drop pose a threat to wildlife and motorists. "Have you ever had an F-16 scream over your head at 200 feet?" asks GRACE POTORTI, director of the Rural Alliance for Military Accountability, based in Reno...
...groups feel they can convince more of the populace than the state representatives to get their law passed, but this is precisely what has happened. The recent advertising boom in proposition politics can be traced to the huge infusion of money from outside groups, who use California as a battleground for their national concerns. Tobacco giants and conservative think tanks as well as drug-legalization activists have acted around spending limits and disclosure laws to affect the outcome. National media attention has often only exacerbated the problem, presenting a clip of a rally or debate and never considering the issues...
...real battleground, of course, is not Windows 95 but Windows 98, the next incarnation of Microsoft's cash cow, into which its Web browser is even more tightly knit. The implications of the shots fired last week are clear: selling two versions of Win 98, one browser-enabled, the other crippled, won't satisfy anyone...
What was missing, in short, was a battleground, a field of overt tension in which mass emotions might rise to an occasion. Instead, there was the presence of absence, which eats at the mind quietly and which can, when touched by one last straw, incite a riot. It may be that the death of Diana came simply as one loss and absence too many. Whatever else Diana was in the world, she effected a lovely presence, and who could not weep for the loss of that? Gone, Diana seemed to emblemize the word; she was everything gone. One grief stood...