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...room is warm and still and nearly dark, bathed only in the light that leaks through its glass door. Refrigerator-size incubators, set to body temperature, line one wall. Along another wall, a young woman in a blue jumpsuit, mask and bonnet is peering through a microscope at half a dozen freshly harvested human eggs. With a glass pipette in one hand and a microneedle in the other, she braces one of the eggs against the tip of the pipette and, as if she were making a stitch, plucks at the membrane, creating a tiny opening. Resting the egg against...
Lang's epic poem of urban dystopia and class warfare set the standard for imagining the future-and how it might feel to be a part of it. Even now, in the age of CGI, his dark vision remains unsurpassed...
...time die-hard fans were trekking out to see Revenge of the Sith for the fifth time, others had ditched their Yoda suits to blog about the film's politics. Some lambasted Lucas for a purported liberal agenda that seems to equate Bush with the dark side. "Grow a spine and boycott the movie," argued a right-wing fan on BLOGS FOR BUSH. While conservatives raged, others defended the film. "Get a life!" said a posting on CENTERFIELD. "It isn't Hollywood's fault there aren't any talented right-wing filmmakers." The verdict from INSTAPUNDIT? Politically neutral but weak...
...eight of his soldiers, with the intermittent help of Afghan irregulars, stopped an advance of 1,000 Taliban soldiers. Just as they were descending triumphant on Kandahar, an errant U.S. bomb hit, killing two of his men and leaving Amerine with shrapnel in his leg, a busted eardrum and dark, hard memories of a war that had him putting his best sergeant in a body...
...producer didn't have much experience producing. "I've been making music for 10 years," says Burton. "But a lot of that was me sitting in my bedroom." Despite his greenness, Burton announced early on that he doesn't like happy songs ("I'm just really into dark music and minor chords") and that he wanted to turn his back on sampling, which, at that point, was the only thing he was known for. Having spent most of the '90s with Blur, warring with Oasis' Gallagher brothers over the very important matter of which band was Britain's best, Albarn...