Word: fate
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...rural farm communities of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. Ethnically, they are derived from the same people who created the most exalted culture in Mesoamerica. Yet the thousands of visitors who come each year to admire the imposing temples of Palenque might be shocked to know the ignominious fate of the Maya's modern-day descendants...
White House sources have provided Time with specifics on heretofore undetailed joint U.S.-Vietnamese investigations into the fate of American POWS AND MIAS. In Vietnam, since January 1992, there have been eight joint field searches and 40 crash- or grave-site excavations; also, 422 cases from files and 92 live sightings were checked out. Vietnam and the U.S. have been making searches together in Laos and Cambodia as well; there have been a total of roughly 170 investigations of various types in the former country and 110 in the latter. The high numbers seem to indicate that Vietnam -- recently...
...take all suggestions. It's obvious that we have a common fate. It's in the best interests of Harvard to make a good relationship with Cambridge...
...title of the play is a pun on The Twilight of the Gods, the final opera in Richard Wagner's Ring cycle. The Ring is a sprawling work about gods and mortals deciding the fate of the world. The information the Gold family receives in the play puts them in the same godlike position, just where the current crop of genetic discoveries puts all of us. It is impossible to overstate the significance of these questions, What kind of world do we want? How will we make these decisions? Whom...
...published daily, is apparently out of business; provisional publisher Rupert Murdoch dropped his bid to buy the tabloid after he and the unions failed to agree on cost cuts. The Saturday edition of the paper was canceled, and staff members started cleaning out their desks. The unprofitable paper's fate was left in the hands of a bankruptcy court this week, but plausible new buyers seemed unlikely to appear...