Word: question
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...president?s son, his wife and her sister is now a hunt for their remains. Twelve hours, the statistical life of a person afloat in 68-degree water, are long since passed. The National Transportation Safety Board has joined the effort; they are excavators, investigators, not medics. The question of John Jr.?s death has changed from "whether...
That's really a shame. I had such a history with books, and then it looks like the future for them and me is a question mark...
...build a computer that appeals to both the high-end power user and the low-end, entry-level laymen? And retails for less than $200? That's the question the developers at EBIZ Enterprises asked themselves, and the answer they came up with may surprise you. In mid-August EBIZ will launch the Pia, the "Personal Internet Appliance," a user-friendly desktop machine that retails for $199 and runs pure, unadulterated Linux...
...Another question is how much ecotourists are truly willing to pay to keep the environment unspoiled. The government of the Seychelles has backed away from the $100 environmental fee it proposed to levy on each traveler this year to fund preservation efforts such as protecting the Vallee de Mai, a unique palm forest. In a recent study, 80% of Germans said an unspoiled environment was important to them, but only 40% were prepared to pay even $1 extra a day to help protect the environment of their holiday destination...
...book has been controversial, not because Mahbubani offers a particularly lurid answer to the title question--actually, he equivocates--but because of his belief that Asia is destined for greater world power, at American expense. Critics have called him anti-Western, but Mahbubani's argument is really with Western arrogance, with leaders who insist capitalism and democracy are the answer for all nations. In fact, he says, the West's hubris is accelerating its decline and polluting relations with proud, ambitious nations such as China and Japan...