Word: planet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Andy Grove huddled with a bunch of lawyers right now? After all, Intel has more of a monopoly than its cousins in Redmond - 90 percent of the planet's PCs have Intel inside; only 85 percent see Windows. Why is it Grove, not Gates, getting the glory? The simple answer is unchecked ambition - Grove was content to cash in his chips; Gates intends to own desktops, cable boxes and the Internet. It's this last aim where Gate has gone too far, according to the boys at Justice. Gates denies it, but the judge isn't convinced - and the world...
...Arizona, but New York, Massachusetts and other states are clamoring for electric vehicles too. Japanese and European automakers are launching their own futuristic prototypes. Can it be that a revolution in global transportation is finally at hand? Clean eco-cars that will save smoggy cities--indeed, the greenhouse-gassed planet--from the Malthusian explosion of internal-combustion engines...
...storage. The Zone doesn't forbid all carbs--high-fiber fruits and vegetables are fine--but it does discourage all the tastier ones. Like pasta, rice and bagels. Sears' position: Get over it. "If all bread left the face of the earth, we'd have a much healthier planet," he declares...
...negotiators flying home from Kyoto this week with a climate-change agreement that may be less than they had hoped for, the coming generation of new energy technologies offers a ray of hope. In order to wean ourselves from the fossil fuels that are choking the planet, we need reliable alternatives. If anything can be done to accelerate the new technologies, we may all breathe a little easier...
SETTING Medieval world of caves, Futuristic planet with tunnels, pools of red tunnels, pools of red lava and green murky water lava and green slime...