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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...this week his commission moved to block the WorldCom-Sprint deal and launched an investigation into AOL-Time Warner (parent of this site), and in the past year it has started similar probes into deals by Boeing and Microsoft. Could Monti's evident distaste for American corporate marriages be less about antitrust law than geopolitics...
...kick off with the words "I am not here to defend David Koresh." He'd much prefer that the trial deal not with why the FBI siege began, but with how it was ended: with a plan whose tactics had critics within the law-enforcement agency, whose execution was less than perfect, and the end result of which was the fiery death of women and children as well as the bad guys. Who started the fire - the key point for conspiracy theorists, owing to the troubling government flip-flopping on the use of incendiary devices - will be merely a part...
...thinks in terms of millions of years. Humans may be the most successful species on the planet after the insects, Erwin says, but we have triggered a global species extinction that rivals those caused by ice ages, floods and killer asteroids--with a difference. "Those extinctions were more or less local, zonal or regional," says Erwin. "The present trend, the so-called sixth massive extinction process, is worldwide and atmospheric, totally pervasive...
...well are we doing at creating living, wanting robots? We are making progress, both from the bottom up and from the top down. At one end, researchers are taking apart the simplest living bacteria--mycoplasmas--whose genome can be stored in less than a quarter of a megabyte, to better understand the process of life at the molecular level. Meanwhile, computer programs that reproduce and evolve are starting to exhibit behaviors we expect from simple living creatures, such as interaction with complex environments and sexual reproduction. Artificial life forms that "live" inside computers have evolved to the point where they...
...immediacy - and about capitalizing on a bountiful economy and a much-discussed "surplus." As the Democrats learned in the 1980s, talking about impending "hard choices" is the fastest way to lose an election. Lesson learned, Gore and Bush came up with these new, vaguely problematic blueprints, which are much less about financial realities than about winning the presidency...