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...direst threat to Windows hegemony may be Java, the Web-minded programming language created at Sun Microsystems in the early '90s. Java's great strength is its "portability"; in a Java-centric future, developers could write programs not for one OS at a time but for the Java Virtual Machine, the software that could run numerous next-wave computers: PCs, smart cell phones, personal digital assistants, stripped-down network computers and so on. "What should Apple do next?" asks Sun CEO and Java evangelist Scott McNealy. "Put 100% energy behind Java. Innovate, compete and add value. That's so obvious...
When asked, he said that he often gets requests to make a house call in the dressing room of a performer, but he rarely does this, because of the lack of resources and equipment available in such a setting. "It would take the direst of circumstances," he says, to warrant such a visit...
...enough. So why did Iraq have to dump millions of gallons of oil into the fragile waters of the Persian Gulf and thus devastate its marine life? And set an estimated 650 oil-well fires that spewed untold tons of smoke into the air? Some of the direst predictions, including altered weather patterns across Asia, failed to materialize, and the well fires were put out in only eight months (actually faster than expected). But in Kuwait itself, the air remained acrid the whole time, and the oil that seeped into the sandy soil will stay there for years...
...Manitoba, Elijah Harper, a Cree Indian and member of the legislative assembly, repeatedly blocked debate on the same ratification issue. The clock was ticking: if either legislature fails to approve the agreement by June 23, a delicate compromise over Quebec's place in Canada could shatter, leading, in the direst of scenarios, to the country's breakup...
...market prices and permitted families to boost income with after-hours work. Last week's changes will produce a decline of as much as 15% in real income for ordinary Hungarians next year. In addition, the closing of inefficient enterprises under a new bankruptcy law could in the direst scenarios put as many as 500,000 people out of work...