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...kind of film they represent so admirably, it has a cloudier future--one best faced with poise, anxiety, a bit of hope and a lot of healthy skepticism. Kind of like a modern women's film. --Reported by Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles with James Inverne/London
...school-discipline picture is even cloudier. "In isolated cases, there appears to be a difference in treatment," says Susan Bowers, an enforcement director with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights who investigates claims like the one filed in Modesto. "But often school districts have a justification, and race goes away." Researchers have theorized that anything from lead exposure to passive smoke may drive some students to act out more than others. The National Association of Secondary School Principals has deemed the discipline gap "an issue of socioeconomic status." The interim findings of the Rhode Island task...
These are all worst-case scenarios, and the report's authors acknowledge that plenty of uncertainties remain in their analysis. For example, as the world warms up, it should get cloudier; depending on what sort of clouds predominate, their shadows could offset the warming effect. And nobody knows how the deep ocean currents--which play a major but still murky role in world climate, channeling heat from one part of the globe to another--would respond to global warming...
...longer-term picture is cloudier. Synergy is the business world's most over-hyped concept, and the Internet is a market where just about everyone is betting but almost no one is yet taking home winnings. A similar deal two years ago, in which Bell Atlantic proposed to absorb the cable giant Tele-Communications Inc., was called off before it could go forward. While MCI has a strong customer base among businesses, for instance, News Corp. has little in the way of business information services to offer them. For Murdoch, the most important advantage of MCI's already established presence...
TECHNOLOGY Why weather forecasts are getting cloudier...