Word: fates
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...which the government expects will take at least three or four days. Although the Miami relatives lost a battle to bring the matter to a state court Thursday, the setback was overshadowed by their victory in the Atlanta appeals court, which once again moves the struggle over Elian's fate off the streets of Miami and into a courtroom...
...both parties on Capitol Hill when it comes to the peace process, and Republicans were even happy to underwrite former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's constant efforts to sabotage it, but kissing up to China might offend some traditionally pro-Israel GOP conservatives. Still, Barak might not tempt fate unless he was fairly secure in Israel's ability, if push comes to shove, to muster greater congressional support than its critics. After all, he ultimately knows where his bread is buttered...
...stay tuned, heeding the words of Einstein, who wrote to a child anxious about the fate of the world, "As for the question of the end of it I advise: Wait...
...ultimate fate, though, remains in doubt, in part because the jury is still out on whether the expansion or gravity will triumph in the end. Most observations point toward the former, but many uncertainties persist. One is the galling "dark matter" issue. Studies of how galaxies are moving around indicate that there's lots of extra gravity out there, suggesting that the stars and nebulae we can see constitute only 1% to 10% of the matter in the universe. The rest is invisible; it emits no light. Nobody yet knows what this dark matter is. One possibility is that...
...dinosaurs, for example--we seek no such generality, and specific narrations for bounded events supply the explanations we seek. Thus a particular asteroid, striking the earth 65 million years ago and leaving evidence of its impact off the Yucatan Peninsula, probably triggered a global extinction that sealed the fate of dinosaurs and many other creatures. In developing such evidence, we have explained a unique historical event, but we have not discovered a general law of nature...