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While I admire landscape architect Julie Bargmann for seeing beauty in lands littered with mine refuse and in acid-laced waters, I hope her obeisance to the scars of the Industrial Revolution doesn't portend future parks. Bargmann has created a restorative park from an archaeological, environmental and artistic standpoint, but parks are also needed for physiological and psychological reasons. The mind is not rested looking at highly troubled landscapes. ANNE LUSK Ann Arbor, Mich...
...years. "ZANU-PF will form the government whatever the results," the party's national chairman, John Nkomo, vowed over the weekend. "Mugabe can have a cabinet of just five if he wants. Mugabe is an institution." But the president faces reelection in 2002, and Tuesday?s result may portend worse to come for the ruling party. The immediate danger is that the greater the challenge Mugabe perceives, the more desperate he becomes: The land invasions and accompanying violence began only after Mugabe lost a referendum in February that would have dramatically increased his constitutional powers. Then again, for the ZANU...
...face of Internet-wide virus attacks, is the realization that we will depend in larger and larger measure on the network's functioning reliably. Making this system of millions of networks sufficiently robust and resilient is a challenge for the present generation of Internet engineers. Failure could portend an increasingly fragile future. But I am an optimist. I believe we are going to live in a world abundant with information and with the tools needed to use it wisely...
Smith said the amendment faced some opposition in the Constitutional Committee, which he said would probably portend its death in the general council...
...wake not just bitter excitement but also one of the more hard-to-figure court decisions of recent years. In a federal appeals panel ruling last week that no one could remove Elian from the U.S. before a May 11 hearing in the same court, the judges appeared to portend a new issue, seeming to claim an unexpected new right for six-year-olds to press their cases...