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HOFFMAN: The past decade has brought a spate of books sounding the death knell for a host of subjects. Francis Fukuyama served up The End of History and David Lindley The End of Physics. But your more sweeping work The End of Science (1997) attracted a lot more attention and controversy--and with good reason. The idea that science may have had its run--that we've discovered all we can realistically expect to discover and that anything we come up with in the future will be pretty much small-bore stuff--left people either intrigued or outraged. With today...
...tech-stock watchers are concerned, Wednesday's joint wireless venture between Bell South and SBC couldn't have been timed better. Right when the death knell was sounding on the dot-com craze, wireless technology has emerged as "the new new thing," with new players popping up left and right and a host of IPOs on the horizon. Tech analysts say there are two trends driving the boom: Cell phones have finally come way down in price, making them widely available to the masses, and they will soon become much more versatile, offering a host of digital services...
...people of Canada have sounded the death knell for the NHL in their country...
...from automotive magazines. But last year, after Chrysler merged with German auto giant Daimler-Benz, the company began to phase out Plymouth, first cutting off sales to Canada and then removing it from Chrysler's marketing schemes. Finally, after sales dropped 30 percent this year, DaimlerChrysler tolled the death knell on the line altogether...
...pastor noted, "There's some possible theological, religious reasons you may not be interested in." Said Couric: "Well, go ahead." And Meredith explained that because of all the seminary students attending Wedgwood, "if I were Satan, and if I were real, and I wanted to deliver a death knell to the kingdom of God, I would target this church...