Word: fight
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There's something timeless about Qui-Gon Jinn and Han Solo, about Princess Leia and Obi-Wan Kenobi. The struggle for peace with justice and honor is not a new fight and it is Lucas' artistic expression of these things that brings so many together for, yes, a movie. It really is true that the anticipation and opening of this film, drawing on our society's love for popular culture and, more importantly, often wordless search for truth, has brought people together like few other things can. Only once in my life have I sat in a theater...
...that reward players for shooting, maiming or running over anything that moves represent a significant fraction of a total revenue stream that could top $7 billion this year--bigger even than the annual take from movie box-office receipts--and nobody is going to tighten that spigot without a fight. "Video games don't teach people to hate," said Douglas Lowenstein, president of the Interactive Digital Software Association, last week. "The entertainment-software industry has no reason to run and hide...
Hitler was convinced that by blitzing London he would destroy Britain's will to fight. Now NATO has decided it can help the Kosovars by bombing Serbia. Do leaders ever learn from history? ANDRZEJ DERKOWSKI Oakville...
...obesity (about 66 million Americans today weigh 30% more than they should). So it was no surprise that sales of Xenical, the diet pill that just won FDA approval, exploded across the Net last week. There is, it seems, no shortage of Doritos-gobbling geeks who would prefer to fight flab without doing anything more strenuous than clicking a mouse...
...columnist Christine Gorman. "If you want to study the medical benefits of marijuana, you can?t just buy it off the street. You can?t prove anything about the drug without some standardization, which means utilizing pure research-grade samples." There is evidence, for example, that marijuana can help fight glaucoma and help stem the nausea associated with chemotherapy. The new HHS policy will loosen the rules enough to make top-grade marijuana available without hassles to study these and other possible benefits -- and to help ensure that those studies stay within the confines of the nation's top research...