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Tech experts debate hotly how likely this is to happen, and how soon. Legal experts add that it may be a hard argument to make at trial. "It's difficult because it relies on getting the court to look over the horizon and take seriously events that haven't happened yet," says George Washington University law professor William Kovacic...
Someday, "Oaksbranch will require full-time commitment, and he would love to devote himself to its growth and success," Charles says. "There are more deals on the horizon, and even opportunities to diversify...
...usual, Microsoft officials downplayed the windfall, saying that such results are unlikely to be duplicated in the near future due to an unstable foreign economy and concern about the yet unresolved "millennium bug." "They always warn of darker clouds on the horizon. It's both good p.r. and a realistic assessment of how fast this industry changes," says TIME's San Francisco bureau chief Michael Krantz. "You always want to outperform people's expectations. If you're a dominant company you want people to set the bar lower so you can always do more." This low-key response may also...
...coming year, as Y2K becomes a more familiar problem, the ranks of secular Y2K survivalists may grow. But most early "roosters"--people who see apocalypse on the millennial horizon--came to their conclusions through a prism of religious belief. Though millennialism hinges upon the notion of Christ's return, there are pockets of religious Year 2000 cultism even in nations that are mostly non-Christian. Chen Tao, for instance, is a Taiwan-based group of cultists whose beliefs combine ufo lore with rough-and-ready bits of Christianity. In 1997 a group of them settled in Garland, Texas, to await...
...wonder, When will the gently twinkling lights be snuffed out by a sudden explosion of fire? When will the neon lines of tracers redraw the contours of the landscape in unthinkable ways? Will the trees and houses and mosques and suspect sites spreading peacefully toward the horizon be nothing but dust and rubble tomorrow? Will people...