Word: fates
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Lasers may be the weapon of choice for sci-fi movie heroes when the fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance. But back here on Planet Earth, lasers are at the center of a movie battle of another kind: the one among Japan's giant electronics manufacturers over the next generation of DVD technology. The winners will get to set the course of the home-video entertainment industry for perhaps the next decade or longer--and reap billions in licensing royalties in the process...
...AUSTRALIAN ELECTION ANZUS: The U.S. alliance is in top shape, but will it stay that way? EDUCATION: Labor's funding plan gets an F from private schools ENVIRONMENT: The fate of forests has become a burning issue...
...Prime Minister John Howard and his rival Mark Latham are willing to go to save the forests he's heard much about. Though he likes the Howard government's economic record, MacLulich still hasn't decided who he'll vote for. When he does, he says, the fate of Tasmania's old-growth forests will be as important in his choice as the economy. He's waiting to be swayed. "Most people want to do the right thing, wherever it is," says the restaurateur, "and old-growth forests are a global issue." With several polls showing overwhelming national opposition...
...little Italian restaurant, the lacquered mahogany walls of a neighborhood pub. For a moment, I even harked back to the buff, headless mannequins in the window of the old Abercrombie, the plastic smiles of the salespeople who always looked like they just hopped off their surfboards. O cruel, harlot fate! Where was the humanity...
...troops to Iraq? Kerry is either incredibly naive or misleading his constituency. Charles G. Kormendy Frankfurt The upcoming U.S. presidential election is a matter of interest to the world outside America. Recent events have shown that, under the pretext of the war on terrorism, the President can determine the fate of many smaller countries. The international community realizes the danger of allowing one country unlimited discretion in its foreign policy. For that reason, all Americans have a duty to themselves and the rest of the world to exercise democracy and vote for the best candidate on the basis...