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...this a sign of things to come in the Internet age? Two multimedia monoliths, Time Warner and Disney, are playing a high-stakes tug-of-war, not only putting the immediate fate of one TV network's programming at risk, but also raising questions about the shape of a totally web-based news and information future. After time ran out on their most recent usage agreement, Time Warner Cable and Disney arrived at an impasse Monday; Time Warner then called Disney's bluff, pulling the Mouse's ABC network from its programming roster. Time Warner Cable customers hoping to tune...
...those that tend toward an appreciation of serene majesty, passivity, mystery, solitude, pastoral virtues and a different kind of wildness. Both worlds are beautiful--city lamps on a winter night are no less attractive than a swaying kelp forest. The trouble is that nature usually loses in this tug-of-war, in part because it cannot compete in modern terms. Nature is undemocratic; in the wilds, wet or dry, the individual has no dignity. The strong eat the weak, and all one's humanistic ideals of equality and justice are drowned in acts of casual murder...
Like a Band-Aid being slowly, painfully pulled from a hair-covered forearm, tobacco companies in the past few years have faced a steady succession of product liability cases. Now a federal judge wants to pull the whole Band-Aid off in one swift tug. District Judge Jack B. Weinstein has ordered plaintiffs' lawyers and tobacco companies to discuss a single settlement to end all tobacco litigation in the nation, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The so-called "tobacco wars" have been a piecemeal affair so far, with many different types of plaintiffs dealing with different laws in different...
...Instead, it might still be there, lurking in empty space and urging expansion along, like an usher politely shooing playgoers back into the theater at intermission's end. Some observations of exploding stars in distant galaxies suggest the presence of just such an ongoing inflationary impulse. If so, the tug-of-war over the future of the universe involves not only expansion and gravitational braking but also the subtle turbocharging of lingering inflation, which acts to keep the universe expanding indefinitely...
...itself out, notes University of Colorado atmospheric scientist Brian Toon, it tends to grow larger and last longer, providing a shiny white surface that bounces sunlight out to space. Indeed, one reason the earth has not yet warmed up as much as many anticipated may be due to the tug-of-war between industrial aerosols like sulfuric acid (which reflect heat) and greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide (which trap it). Ironically, then, the cost of reducing one kind of pollution may come at the price of intensifying the effects of the other...