Word: fateful
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...fate of the Everglades could be decided this week. A $465 million restoration plan, originally hammered out in the late 1980s, has emerged from nearly five years of litigation and faces a mediator's June 21 deadline. Federal and state officials, environmentalists, Native Americans and farmers are still haggling over who will pay for the cleanup and the timetable. If no settlement comes this week, the issue is likely to go back to court -- where it could linger for years while the ecosystem deteriorates. "What's at stake is the biological future of the Everglades and the Florida Bay," says...
Helpless, Manju, like many in her profession, is resigned to her fate. Returning home would not be an improvement. "Even if you work 24 hours a day in Nepal, you do not get enough to eat," she explains. "One can endure anything except hunger. If I were a man, maybe I would have committed murder to fill my stomach. But as a woman, I became a prostitute." It is a choice being forced upon too many. Along the highway of cheap love that now circles the globe, the cost in destroyed lives has become a blight to rival...
...fate of the wetlands could be decided soon...
THEN WHAT ARE THE PEOPLE WHO USE THEM? "Idiots are people who give up their nuclear weapons." -- GENERAL VLADIMIR TOLUBKO, A MEMBER OF THE UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT, PRIOR TO THIS WEEK'S NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN UKRAINE AND THE U.S. OVER THE FATE OF THE MISSILES LEFT IN UKRAINE AFTER THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION
Harvard College Class Day speaker Marian Wright Edelman yesterday asked the Class of 1993 to take responsibility for their own future and the fate of the nation's children...