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...speeches, Levin likes to tell listeners about a game that H.G. Wells invented called Cheat the Prophet. Here's how to play: gather the smartest group of futurists you can find, ask them to describe the future, proceed to go out and undertake everything the futurists consider unthinkable or downright laughable. That's been Levin's career--and Case's. For decades the idea that every home in America would be wired with cable--or connected to a subscription online service--seemed unreasonable and even laughable in many minds...
HIID interim director Richard B. Pagett said until there is a final decision, the provost's office has instructed the institute to "proceed with business as usual...
...then harass them through guerrilla action. "Now we're entering the phase of a brutal and bitter partisan war in which the Chechens attack at night and try and raise the cost of the Russian siege," says Meier. "And the Russian military is clearly undecided about how to proceed. Even though it may be politically dangerous to risk the heavy casualties of trying to take Grozny, Russia's generals won't be prepared to simply dig in and wait if they're losing scores of men every...
...peace. And the impression that the Israelis are having things all their own way in the Shepherdstown talks has prompted Syria to declare a crisis. President Clinton on Thursday was called back to the West Virginia meeting to knock heads together, after Syrian delegates warned that talks could not proceed without discussion on the future borders between the two states. The current talks are premised on the principle that long-term peace will involve Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights in exchange for cast-iron security guarantees and normalization of relations between the Jewish state and its most intractable...
Does that mean you could go back, kill your own grandfather and keep yourself from being born--a seeming absurdity? Maybe not, say some physicists. In one interpretation of quantum physics, the world splits at each moment into an infinite number of universes that proceed in parallel; if you killed your grandfather, it might be in an alternate universe, so it would have no effect on the universe you inhabit...