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...Then, of course, there are the book deals looming on the horizon. No firm offers yet, but if Gore were moved to write, for example, a sequel to his "Earth in the Balance," he could probably find a publisher willing to take the risk...
...Barak can't win reelection unless he has a peace deal with Arafat around which to campaign, the calculation being that he might conceivably win an election that could be painted as a referendum choice between peace and war. But there's no sign of any agreement on the horizon, and Palestinian public opinion has turned as much, if not more, against the peace process as the Israeli electorate has. Still, for a man who had come to believe that diplomacy and negotiation would win him his cherished Palestinian state, Arafat can't be comfortable contemplating Israel's turn from...
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Eventually they'll even understand you. The 10-year horizon promises the birth of both natural-language software that "understands" many complex sentences, and broadband data speeds that make online video ubiquitous. The average software product in 2010 could well have a face, a voice, ears and something resembling a brain, which suggests that our next great challenge will be figuring out what we really want...
Shannon Mahaffey's experience is a case in point. He was living in Sweetwater, on the flat Texas plains that spawn tornadoes during the spring storm season. Often he would stay up nights watching the horizon as twisters cut deadly swaths nearby. Twice, he says, they touched down on his property, tearing up fences and farm equipment, though luckily missing his house. One night, while waiting up in a storm-induced blackout, he wondered whether there was a better way to warn people that a twister was forming: "I knew that the one thing that always worked in the disasters...