Word: matter
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...possible futures: one with a healthy earth but no skyscrapers or plastic bags, and one where we have ruined the world to make a profit. Which way do you currently see humanity leaning? Oh, I think it's entirely what it says in the book - it's a matter of choice. We've got two possible futures: a really horrible one and a really good one. We're going to run out of oil. It's not a renewable resource. So that will happen. Meanwhile, we are very busy in creating all kinds of new tech that might save...
...novelist that Crichton was best known. He wrote two dozen thrillers, including The Andromeda Strain, Congo, Sphere and Jurassic Park, that collectively sold over 150 million copies. (A new one, its title and subject matter still unannounced, is slated for publication in December.) Crichton was never a literary stylist, but his skills as a storyteller were enormous. His plots have a crystalline perfection that has been much-copied, by The Da Vinci Code's Dan Brown among many others, and his sense of pacing and his ability to weave diverse plot strands into an elegant braided whole are virtually unmatched...
...this campaign cycle, we made a special effort to explore and analyze the ideas that shaped that narrative arc. In elections, ideas matter--they are the themes that influence how voters feel about the candidates. We did cover stories on "How Much Does Experience Matter?," on "How the Right Went Wrong," on "How the Democrats Got Religion," on "The Real Meaning of Patriotism," on "Why the Economy Is Trumping Race," on "Does Temperament Matter?" Even more than specific policy issues, these are the ideas and the discussions that voters use to make up their minds. And so we considered...
...individual interest. "Everyone thought risk-based compensation was equity in the firm," says James Wiener, head of the finance and risk practice at the consultancy Oliver Wyman. Employees at Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns owned some 30% of their companies. At the end of the day, that didn't matter. Because altering a foundational element of an industry is difficult...
...matter how insignificant the Tampa Bay Rays' accomplishments may seem to Walsh, the very least he could have done is acknowledge that the American League Champions of 2008 hail from St. Petersburg, Fla.--not the city of Tampa, as noted in both the dateline and the body of his commentary. This common gaffe among major media outlets is no laughing matter for proud Pinellas County residents and government officials, who are separated from their Tampa counterparts by a rather large body of water known as Tampa Bay. Don Moyer, CLEARWATER...