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...Michael Crichton has made an excellent literary career scaring us about what will happen when our brains outpace our souls. In best sellers from the Andromeda Strain to Jurassic Park to his latest book out today, Next ("Welcome to our genetic world," says the teaser. "Fast, furious and out of control"), Crichton has for years been stoking the private ethics conversation that we are so clumsy at conducting in public...
...frame the choices that matter most: Harriet Beecher Stowe on slavery, Aldous Huxley on "progress," George Orwell on tyranny, Ralph Ellison on race. We could debate which debate has most refocused the Iraq war: the one moderated by Tim Russert or the one by Jon Stewart. When Crichton takes aim at genetic engineering and argues that "the future is closer than you think - get used to it," he is likely to shape opinion more than all the bioethics seminars and Senate debates combined...
...Crichton Chronicles...
...last novel's global-warming theories earned him a presidential sit-down. Michael Crichton's next book, Next, out--you knew it--next week also tackles a touchy topic: genetic research...
...four Category 5 hurricanes, that developed in the Atlantic in 2005. “If you add up all these numbers, you get big trouble,” Browner said. She went on to excoriate those who question the science supporting global warming, directing sharp criticism at author Michael Crichton ’64 whose book, “State of Fear,” argues that the scientific evidence for climate change is thin. Browner said that many people who deny climate change are using Crichton, who has no formal scientific training, as their “main source...