Word: greate
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Beyond 2000, the big questions for mankind will not be what to do about garbage, cholesterol and aging. These are "American" and "First World" concerns. The great part of mankind living in underdeveloped areas will still be facing the old problems of hunger, malnutrition, illiteracy and the growing burden of foreign debt. In the last analysis, modern man cannot escape the perennial moral questions of his own existence. Man is tending toward nihilism. In the next millennium, the search for transcendence will be more crucial for man's life than is the search for the key to longevity...
...small boy, he had the opportunity to shake the hand of a very old gentleman in his hometown who had shaken hands with an elderly man who, as a baby, had touched the hand of George Washington. So, as we enter the 21st century, my son, who shook his great-grandfather's hand on many occasions, has shaken the hand several times removed of a person who touched the hand of our nation's first President. Germy or not, that's a pretty good link through time. ROBERT L. DIERS Houston...
KIDS Study says they consume 5.5 hr. of electronic media a day. Mom, TIME's a great stocking stuffer
Maybe better to say potential torrent. Past budget forecasts have been wildly off-target. As recently as 1996, the Clinton Administration predicted deficits of $200 billion or more each year as far as the eye could see. So, can today's great expectations be trusted? Absolutely, said a majority of members at a special session of TIME's Board of Economists, which met recently in Washington to debate the budgetary outlook. For this occasion the board included some of the country's most important public officials as well as economists. They split along party lines on what to do with...
...viators has increased, the industry has gone into hard-sell mode, promising fail-safe, above-market returns. The harsh reality, though, is that investors are in some measure betting on the death of the sellers. If the person whose policy you buy dies in a year, it's a great investment; but if he lives five, it's a dud. "Profitability is related to the predictability of death, which has proved to be singularly unpredictable," says Bill McDonald, chief of enforcement for the California Department of Corporations, who thinks viaticals may need to be outlawed. In Florida, Mutual Benefits Corp...