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Composition and Conversation
Current
Events
Oct,
1998
Film:
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Titanic
travel theme: A truly
Titanic tour
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Visiting
Capt. Miller The
tremendous success of Steven Spielberg's film Saving Private Ryan has spurred
a sudden wave of visitors to the cemetery where the real characters who
inspired the film are buried.
Technology:
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Microsoft's
Midlife Crisis With
the big antitrust trial ready to roll, the software giant looks in the
mirror and sees a touch of gray. Can Bill Gates keep the company hungry?
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The
millennium bug looms PCs will freak on
Jan. 1, 2000. Is a fix in the making?
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Hot
Web Concept Is 'Portals' Excite and others transformed
themselves into Internet "portals." Microsoft Corp., Netscape Communications
Corp., America Online Inc., Yahoo Inc. and Compaq Computer Corp. are among
the other big players that have frantically spent tens of millions of dollars
to morph their Web sites into similar starting points for Internet surfers.
Social
Issues:
Politics:
News in Chinese (for your reference)
The
political situation in Indonesia: In-Depth Report (from
China Times)
Another
suicide case (in Chinese)