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...Apple's -- and the industry's -- woes are just beginning. By the time the dust settles, analysts predict that fewer than 100 of the 350 PC makers in business today will be left standing. Says Richard Shaffer, editor of the Computer Letter: "What's going to happen to the personal-computer industry in the next few years won't be a pretty sight...
Weather is almost impossible to predict more than a week or two in advance. But when it comes to climate -- the long-term weather averages that make the U.S. temperate and the tropics torrid -- scientists are confident that they understand the overall pattern. Over the past million years or so, the planet has swung between ice ages lasting on the order of 100,000 years and interglacial periods of about 10,000. During each phase, the climate is pretty steady. It's the stability of the current interglacial epoch, which began 10,000 years ago, that made the invention...
...Israelis on the streets, and some of the German rightists who assault and kill Turks and other foreigners. Their depredations are "unorganized, unstructured, spontaneous acts with a political motivation," says Ernst Uhrlau, director of the Hamburg branch of an agency equivalent to the FBI. Police can never predict where or whom they will strike because, says Uhrlau, the offenders themselves "don't know in the morning what they will be doing that night...
...people's bureaus" (embassies) around the world. "We're always looking for a central headquarters," says Jenkins. But the new terrorists, he says, comparing them with their predecessors of the 1970s and '80s, are "more religious, more ecumenical, more implacable, less organized, less structured, more unyielding, more difficult to predict and to penetrate...
...autumn. Clintonites have even organized a war room -- dubbed an intensive care unit -- to coordinate a kind of marketing campaign. How soon Congress may act, however, and how much of whatever plan Clinton produces will survive the push-and-pull of the lobbyists for particular interests, no one can predict...