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...movie heroes when the fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance. But here on Earth, lasers?which in more humble household varieties nestle deep inside your DVD player, reading data from the discs?are at the center of an epic movie battle of another kind: an escalating showdown among Japan's giant electronics manufacturers over the next generation of DVD technology. This fight may not decide the future of humankind, but the stakes are plenty high. The winners may be able to chart the course of the video industry for years to come, dictating the type of technology that...
...Nuclear Showdown IRAN Days after the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) approved a resolution demanding that Iran suspend all uranium-enrichment activities, a defiant Tehran announced that it had started the conversion of some 37 tons of uranium oxide (yellowcake) into UF6-gas - the feed material for enriched uranium. Iran denies its enrichment efforts are part of a weapons program, claiming they are for electricity generation, which the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) permits. A senior official at Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Hossein Mousavian, argued that " Iran cannot be subjected only to the limitations of the treaty...
...baseball: last week's compromise also eased long-standing restrictions on the creation of new teams. That may open the door for 31-year-old Internet tycoon Takafumi Horie, who says he wants to reform Japanese baseball but saw a previous bid for the Buffaloes spurned. If the current showdown succeeds in opening the door for him and others, it could mark the start of a turnaround for Japan's favorite sport...
When Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in August 1990, TIME assessed the political liabilities--and questions of style--associated with the first President Bush's SHOWDOWN with the Iraqi leader. His son would revisit those issues...
...posse in advance better suits today's world ... No matter how supportive the public may be of Bush's intervention today, its willingness to tolerate flag-draped coffins returning to the U.S. for weeks on end is at best problematic ... What will constitute a victory in the showdown against Iraq? If a year from now, oil-price stability has been achieved and Saddam is either back within his own borders or deposed, the political benefits for Bush will be great...