Word: fates
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Where is Lucie Blackman? For that matter, who is Lucie Blackman? Lucie is a pretty blond Englishwoman who disappeared one night from a Tokyo nightclub. British prime minister Tony Blair is among those concerned about the fate of the former British Airways flight attendant; on his way to Okinawa, Blair actually met with Lucie's dad, Tim, who is trying to put pressure on the Japanese government to step up efforts to find his 21-year-old daughter. This is a particularly embarrassing case because it involves one of the shadier sides of Tokyo life - the booming business in trafficking...
...fate of the wacky "Survivor" cast, of course, has proved to be much more interesting...
...profit and doing the right thing. But the brutal reality is there's no good-for-business solution to the AIDS crisis in Africa. Some 10 million Africans will die of AIDS in the next five years alone if it's left to the market to determine their fate, because there's simply no profit to be made in saving them. And that reality will force some tough choices not on the pharmaceutical industry, but on government...
...Pity the fate of the prolific German composer Georg Philipp Telemann. Never heard of him? Here's why. During his heyday in the 1700s he was quite the pop star on the church-music scene, but according to the Columbia Encyclopedia, "his reputation later declined because he was not an innovator." He has fans today who think he got a bad rap, but it shows how history judges people. The reference work gives far more respect to anyone who really innovated, ranging from fashion guru Elsa Schiaparelli (for the use of shocking pink) to bridge engineer Robert Maillart...
...there is also liberation in the constant flux, excitement at the thought that I never return from an excursion quite the way I left. Fate-teasing rides in tin-can auto rickshaws, curiously aromatic meals at hole-in-the-wall dhabas, solitary walks through ancient ruins perched in the center of urban sprawl, they all leave their indelible marks, imprinting the city on my soul and stealing a bit of my life's predictability to make room for what they've left behind...