Word: disappears
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...altering atmospheric chemistry and appreciably warming the planet in just a few decades. And as our population began the year 2000 above the 6 billion mark, still spreading across the continents, dozens of animal and plant species were going extinct every day, including the first primate to disappear in more than 100 years, Miss Waldron's red colobus...
...projection expects government spending to stay level, which it won't, and for certain existing tax credits to be allowed to expire, which they won't. (And a real, multi-year recession would of course make those surpluses disappear very fast.) But an extra $1.4 trillion is a heck of a lot of breathing room, and Democrats will be hard-pressed to argue that even Bush's now-enlarged proposal (it's $1.6 trillion from 2002-2011 instead of the old $1.3 trillion from 2002-2010) will break the fiscal bank...
...terms are sketchy - the deal was strictly oral, and will simply disappear into thin air if either side rejects it - but whenever you hear the phrases "Palestinian state covering 95 percent of the West Bank" and "Israel to cede sovereignty over the Temple Mount," you know both sides will have plenty to complain about...
...even though more people agreed with the other guy's positions. He took on the suicide wing of his party, which would rather be right than win, and made them roll over and play dead, threw the invisibility cloak over the congressional wing of his party and made them disappear. Stripped of every winning Republican issue--the cold war, crime, the economy--he proceeded to run on Democratic ones--education, health care, Social Security. Lampooned as a feckless frat boy, he ran a more disciplined race than we have seen in years; he made his inexperience a virtue, his vagueness...
...look back...well, why look back? The technological revolution has no rearview mirror. We have not only seen the future, we've moved into it. Yesterday is history. Familiar forms will disappear. Who needs fiction when we have Survivor and the Florida Supreme Court? And new formats will change what designer Bruce Mau calls "the global image economy." Soon the multiplexes will go digital; "films" will no longer exist. We're already consuming e-books, e-movies, e-music. Egad...