Word: defectives
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...Humans, working with the genome roadmap, evolve themselves - correcting nature's blunders, fixing a defect of vision here, a tendency toward diabetes there, until in the fullness of time a perfected human specimen walks the earth, while, simultaneously, 2) The robots, in their parallel universe, labor at their own evolution, building their own brains, refining their subtleties and abilities at the speed of light...
...issue its "final report" on the 1996 crash of TWA flight 800. The plane's fiery demise, in which all 230 aboard were killed, was, it seems, a freak accident - a conclusion that, while comforting in its own way, as it nudges out the possibility of a serious design defect in the 747 model, provides the victims' survivors with little sense of closure...
Ford grew increasingly alarmed last year when similar failures cropped up in the U.S. Southwest. Working through Arizona dealers, the company collected tires from 200 Explorer owners. Ford and Firestone then X-rayed and sliced up the tires but could identify no defect. In the meantime, Ford quietly recalled vehicles from Venezuelan and Persian Gulf markets and replaced 40,000 to 60,000 high-mileage Firestone tires with those made by Goodyear. "You would have thought that they [Firestone] would have got the message," says a Ford official, in a none too subtle hint that the tiremaker should have addressed...
...mosquito-infested island off the Florida Keys, clueless as to when they'd be leaving. No, it wasn't the first episode of Survivor II, but rather the second attempt of Cuban baseball slugger ANDY MORALES to reach U.S. soil. Six weeks ago, the stellar third baseman tried to defect but was plucked from the sea and hauled back to his homeland, where a year earlier Castro had personally congratulated him for hitting the winning home run in an exhibition game against the Orioles. On Thursday, Morales, 25, who left behind his wife and seven-month...
...Castro, sending Juan Miguel to the U.S. was obviously a risk - if he chose to defect and join his uncles in Miami, that would have been a humiliating propaganda defeat for the Cuban strongman. But failing that, Castro had nothing to lose: With ordinary Cubans incensed by a case whose meaning to them was that the U.S. might question their fitness as parents simply for living in Cuba, Castro would have reaped a political dividend even if the Miami relatives had won the case...