Word: planet
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...raft in the Colorado River - - he will get the message on his cell phone and come on the line. If Fred is too busy negotiating the rapids to talk, you can always leave him a voice- mail message. The reach of phone systems continues to extend across the planet, as cellular transfer stations are built and communications satellites are launched. If Motorola's ambitious Iridium satellite project is ever completed, prospectively in 1998, virtually no place on earth will be out of range. Satellites are also making possible commercial use of the Pentagon- developed global positioning system, which was employed...
WHEN BONO TOSSED OFF THAT LINE during the fall campaign, he may have been merely poking fun at the save-the-planet folks, just as he used to trade put-downs with his old partner, Cher. But underneath the comic exaggeration was a serious message. The noises coming from Bono and many of his fellow Republican signers of House Speaker Newt Gingrich's "Contract with America" signal a radical shift in Congress's attitude toward environmental issues-a shift that may bode ill for the health of snail darters, spotted owls and even the human species...
...were on their own. Kasich, Clinton Budget Director Alice Rivlin told TIME, ``has got a huge job. The Republicans have undertaken an enormously difficult task.'' Yet the six-term Ohio Congressman seems to feel it is his responsibility, if not his destiny. ``We have an obligation to leave the planet better off than we found it. If we pile on debt, are we going to be able to look our kids in the eye and say we failed to tackle it?'' he told TIME. ``If you're going to fail, you better have tried...
...Iran or Afghanistan. Now, with a second round of trials under way in New York City, information from the intelligence agencies that tracked him around the world--including the CIA, the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration--reveals that Yousef's travels took in huge swaths of the planet. His attack on the Trade Center was only the first of many murderous interludes and clever escapes in an infernal global odyssey...
...total focus on building speed and calculating the tightest turns around the gates. ``He doesn't make the mistakes he used to, like leaning back on his skis,'' says Roberto Della Torre, deputy editor of the Italian monthly Sciare. ``Compared with the competition, Tomba's skiing on another planet...