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Water, not oil, is the most precious fluid in our lives, the substance from which all life on the earth has sprung and continues to depend. If we run short of oil and other fossil fuels, we can use alternative energy sources. If we have no clean, drinkable water, we are doomed. As the 6 billion passengers aboard Spaceship Earth enter a complex new century, few issues are as fundamental as water. We are falling far short of the most basic humanitarian goals: sufficient and affordable clean water, food and energy for everyone. "I cannot bear to watch the nations...
...sometime in the 21st century, A.I.: Artificial Intelligence depicts life on earth after the Greenhouse Effect has melted the polar icecaps and flooded many coastal cities, submerging them in water. Human beings have come to not only depend upon computers for survival, but also come to befriend machines with artificial intelligence for friendship. Directed and written by Steven Spielberg, A.I. specifically tells the story of one boy robot (Haley Joel Osment) and his quest to becoming what movie teasers have described as "something more." Many people look forward to A.I.'s June 29th summer release either because it is Steven...
...such, but it also gives those first-years a chance to cut their teeth on council business and impress the higher-ups. That is to say, there’s a built-in incentive for these reps to do a good job, as future positions within the council may depend...
Nations ought to be able to exempt certain basic services from private competition; governments ought not to depend on private organizations to deliver a nation’s mail, or even provide a nation’s healthcare, if that government so chooses. Such exemptions and protections ensure that governments will have the ability to directly provide for the day-to-day functioning of society and be accountable for those services’ successes and failures...
Turkey is knocking on the European Union's door. Whether it gets in or not depends on the commitment of the Turkish parliament to political and economic reform. But it may also depend on one M.P. who has transformed herself from an internist at a provincial hospital into a human rights warrior...