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Lasers may be the weapon of choice for sci-fi movie heroes when the fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance. But back here on Planet Earth, lasers are at the center of a movie battle of another kind: the one among Japan's giant electronics manufacturers over the next generation of DVD technology. The winners will get to set the course of the home-video entertainment industry for perhaps the next decade or longer--and reap billions in licensing royalties in the process...
...told in a different style: ghost story, hard-boiled mystery and science fiction. You read that right. The third section will be set in New York City in the 22nd century, by which time the Big Apple will be dealing with a massive influx of refugees from another planet. What binds the three stories together is that they all, somehow, revolve around the same trio: a little boy, an old man and a young woman...
...exposed. WHAT ARE YOU REFERRING TO? I'm referring to aids. I am sure people know where it came from. And I'm quite sure it did not come from the monkeys. Why can't we be encouraged to ask ourselves these questions? WHAT'S THE PLANET'S BIGGEST CHALLENGE? The environment. We are sharing our resources in a very inequitable way. We have parts of the world that are very deprived and parts of the world that are very rich. And that is partly the reason why we have conflict. WHAT'S NEXT? More trees. I will grow more...
...Beauty, wildness, inspiration, adventure, the rights of future generations, the rights indeed of all life on this planet to have room to exist, these matters are reduced to zero on the economic scale...
...serious contender for government. And how will the party safeguard its ideals along the way? "If further down the line the Greens got seduced by power or money, as the older parties have," he says, "others will come along. The values of humanity and concern for the planet are eternal...