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With Prey Crichton goes from dino to nano: the baddie comes from the currently hot field of nanotechnology, the science of building microscopic machines. The hero is an unemployed computer whiz named Jack Forman, a likable blank who has the misfortune to be married to Julia, a workaholic exec at Xymos, a shady Silicon Valley start-up. Xymos builds tiny nanorobots that possess no intelligence of their own but can assemble themselves, insect-like, into swarms capable of solving complex problems, reproducing and even evolving. Since the thoughtless hubris of scientists is Crichton's Big Theme, all this must...
Grumet-Morris stopped 29 shots on the night, stoning multiple Terrier breakaways and wide-open chances. He allowed just two goals, both coming on shots or deflections from point-blank range...
...From Adams House: Gregory R. Blank ’03, Chorba, Tanner T. Fahl ’03, Brandon T. Fail ’03, Barat Samy ’03 and Rachel V. Zabarkes...
...21st century. Jack, the mellower Osbourne sib, thinks sis is getting too big for her crucifixes. During an argument, Kelly tells him, "I hope someone beats you up." He snaps back, "I hope your album fails." Sharon is aghast--at Jack. In this family, you can tell somebody to blank themselves in the blank with a blankety-blank, but jinx their Soundscan numbers, and you've crossed a line...
...encourage people to get together and socialize. It's built right into the simulated psychology. Call it "simbiosis": your Sim won't be happy if it's not hanging out with other Sims. In The Sims Online, nice guys really do finish first. "We're giving the players a blank slate, a blank world," says Wright. "We want people to try to build a large, diverse world, so we're tailoring our reward structures to encourage the kind of world people will want to be in." You can see the outlines of a fantasy America emerging, one that's touchingly...