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...Vicky rents the first floor of a white, three-story house. There is a small front yard with bright orange flowers that a chain-link fence separates from the sidewalk. Photographs cover the walls in the living room. The pictures show relatives in formal Greek military uniform, several weddings and Katerina--infant photos, yearly school portraits and photos of her as a ballerina. "She stopped lessons last year. They're just too expensive," Vicky said. Katerina's bedroom is full of toys and other contraptions. "She has everything she'd ever need," Vicky said. "My dream is to take...
...According to an appeals court, which in 1998 overturned Jackson's own injunction against the bundle, Microsoft's tying "combines functionalities ... in a way that offers advantages unavailable if ... [the products are] bought separately and combined by the purchaser." The appeals court is higher up on the judicial food chain than Jackson's district court and it did have three judges examine the issue, as opposed to only one. But that was last year. His egregiously embarrassing computer literacy problems in the courtroom notwithstanding, Jackson simply knows best. (Although I'm praying he doesn't direct the anti-bundling animus...
...stores as big as 220,000 sq. ft. that combine a supermarket with a traditional Wal-Mart, you'll find plenty of Budweiser to put in the coolers being sold in sporting goods. Wine and beer are also sold in Sam's Clubs and in the company's new chain of downsized Neighborhood Markets, a.k.a. "small marts...
Consider too the sharks: apex predators, lords of the food chain, inspiration for scary stories. A few years ago, I dived off the coast of Costa Rica in a marine preserve where, supposedly, all life was protected. Every day, looking down, I saw the sea bottom carpeted with the corpses of whitetip reef sharks, grotesquely stripped of their fins by poachers who had slashed them off to sell to the soup markets of Asia and had cast the living animals back into the sea to die. Around the world, the numbers of some shark species have declined as much...
...coming century can be read in the numbers. The 6 billion people living on the planet are projected to swell to 9 billion by 2050. The pressure to exploit the world's remaining wilderness for natural resources, food and human habitation will become overwhelming. But bulldozers and chain saws aren't the only threats. A new menace has emerged from the least likely quarter; in many cases, the very people who care most passionately about empty places are hastening their demise...