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...before, you come to know it as you would a new acquaintance. It moves along, taking you into its confidence by following certain well-worn paths - it's a buddy comedy or a domestic drama or a space epic. These paths create expectations, which the standard Hollywood picture is bound to satisfy. Familiarity breeds complicity. But there are some movies that, in the middle of the story or later, take turns, make strange twists, as if to say, like that new acquaintance, Don't presume you know me. I am not what you think I am. I am something darker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Twisty Delights | 5/18/2007 | See Source »

...just fail to express themselves, like Robert Johnson's, but that have mutated in a way that they express themselves abnormally, a trickier proposition because doctors need to add something and suppress something else at the same time. (Boatright and co. would inject short DNA strands that, where they bound with the patient's DNA at the point of the fault, would alert the body's existing repair mechanisms to the problem). The future looks bright indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Gene to Cure Blindness | 5/18/2007 | See Source »

...would say the relationship of Islam to the world’s religions and to the West is inextricably bound with the relationship of Islam and science,” he says. “An Islam that can embrace science is not a fanatical Islam, but is the great Islamic tradition of the high middle ages—Islam, traditionally, was the religion of unification...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Science and Religion Drive Divinity Professor | 5/18/2007 | See Source »

...most recent leftist farce on campus concluded last week—as it was bound to—in ignominious failure...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: The Politics of Drudgery | 5/18/2007 | See Source »

...lodged a futile protest after Austrian energy company OMV announced an $18 billion deal to exploit Iran's South Pars gas field. "The Americans may refuse to invest in Iran's oil industry," Austria's Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik told the Austrian Die Presse newspaper. "But Austria is not bound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Pushes for Iran Divestment | 5/17/2007 | See Source »

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