Word: horizons
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Every now and then a movie appears on the horizon, sending streaks of a false dawn through the sky long before the actual appearance of the film; Princess Mononoke is that sort of movie. It was the highest grossing film in Japan when it was released in 1997 (to be replaced, tragically, by Titanic, and bootleg copies have been circulating though North America for years.) The big screen debut in America has been completely unlike that of any other foreign animated film; touting the voices of stars like Gilian Anderson, Claire Danes, Minnie Driver, Jada Pinkett-Smith and Billy...
...aren't close to the Donna Reed 1950s Space Age ideal. In fact, Donna Reed largely doesn't exist anymore. As fewer women choose to be housewives, the need to create Rosie the Robot has ironically fallen by the wayside. Flying cars aren't anywhere near the horizon. We're just getting started with alternative automobile fuel sources like ethanol, electricity and solar power. Food capsules? Forget it. We're still working on genetically enhancing our food, not shrinking it into little pills...
Already on the horizon for the Crimson are the National Championships, which take place in Newport on November...
Will that be enough? Apple's 12% home-computer market share is a big improvement over 6%, but it still leaves the Mac on the margins--a minority desktop operating system at a time when desktop computers may be marginalized by the thousand portable "net appliances" looming on the horizon. If Jobs' crystal ball sees that far, he isn't telling. "He doesn't have a pocket Mac in the works, at least that I know of," says Tim Bajarin of Creative Strategies Research International, a Silicon Valley consulting firm. "But he's too smart not to be thinking about...
...center for the social sciences is on the horizon. Major renovations have been made to the Yard, and first-years have a new and improved dining hall. This is all thanks to funds from the Capital Campaign...