Word: planetful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while such revelations are interesting and provide plenty of fodder for dinnertime discussion, they fail to address what Y6B ultimately means for the future of the planet. Unfortunately, the answer to "what is the impact of a rapidly rising human population?" is not as easily obtained as the statistics, which can only make a feeble attempt to describe what should be a major global concern...
Microsoft is still in there punching, but its battle royal with the Justice Department was over a long time ago. "Nobody on Planet Earth believes that Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson isn?t going to rule against Redmond on this one," says TIME technology writer Chris Taylor as the Microsoft antitrust trial limped into its penultimate round on Tuesday with the start of final oral arguments. "About all they can do now is keep pressing their case and try to mitigate what will certainly be an unfavorable outcome." Both sides wrapped up with a quick recap of what the trial-watching...
...into refugees and killer mosquitoes patrol the New York skies, we don?t need the U.N. to tell us something is seriously wrong with the environment. But the Geo2000 report released Wednesday by the U.N. Environmental Program has some bad news for anyone who believes they?re saving the planet simply by recycling their trash and voting for politicians who get dewy-eyed about nature: Much of the damage to the planet is irreversible; we?re under increasing threats of flooding, plagues, drought and famine; and ? the hardest part of all ? the only way to alleviate the unsustainable stress...
Things are not looking particularly good for the late great planet Earth. Things are looking very, very bad. Two hundred million demonic horsemen are galloping across the smoky skies, and a third of the world's people will be slain--a third of those who remain, that is, following the recent Christian Rapture, which has literally snatched believers from cars and offices and carried them off bodily to heaven. Among those left behind to battle evil as part of the rag-tag "Tribulation Force" are Rayford Steele, a former commercial-airline pilot, and Cameron ("Buck") Williams, publisher of the cyberjournal...
Anyone who believes there is "only one species of human on the planet" has never shopped at Wal-Mart. BETH WITHERELL Peoria...