Word: uncertainity
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...thousand" had left the program and were making it on their own. Then came the double blow of drought and soaring food prices. Of the 7.3 million, 5.4 million suddenly needed extra food aid. The sobering lesson: even the best efforts to eliminate hunger are expensive, slow and uncertain of success. Depressing as it may be, this may not be the last time Ethiopia needs help...
...scary truth is that we don't really know how Greenland will react to rapid warming. The most recent assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change didn't directly take into account the possible loss of the Greenland ice sheet, noting that the data were too uncertain. We don't even know exactly how much ice is being lost from the island...
...Atlantic's territory, even though the Baby Bell won a federal-court ruling in Virginia last summer that allows it to send movies over its telephone lines there. (The Justice Department said last week that it will appeal the decision.) Meanwhile, the Clinton Administration's policy toward megamergers remains uncertain. James Quello, the Bush-appointed acting chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, greeted the proposed consolidation as ''the most momentous deal of the decade.'' Quello is scheduled to be replaced by Reed Hundt, a Washington lawyer and childhood friend of Al Gore's. And the Vice President, a proselytizer...
...flight schedule would have been sharply curtailed even without a Challenger disaster. Reagan gave James Fletcher, NASA's new administrator, 30 days to explain how he intends to implement the commission's recommendations. A more basic decision on whether to replace Challenger with a new, fourth orbiter remained uncertain. At his press conference the President encouraged the embattled space agency by saying, ''I think we should go forward with another shuttle.'' But one Administration source insists that ''there's a raging debate at the White House'' on whether, and how, to find the $3 billion that another orbiter would cost...
...week's end there were happy endings in both Loma Linda and Louisville. Jesse's new heart was beating normally, and he was taken off a respirator. Baby Calvin had meanwhile found a donor, and was in stable condition following surgery. But both infants faced a long and uncertain road ahead. So far, the ; longest any infant has survived with a neonatal heart is seven months, and last week two babies who had received transplants in April at Loma Linda were back in the hospital for rejection problems. The mother of one of the infants had a word of warning...