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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...
...this structure is that it breeds inertia. The Broccolis, says a studio insider, "are very adamant about the things James Bond can and cannot do." A suggestion that always gets vetoed is for new larger-than-life villains. "They always say, 'James Bond is the hero,'" says an MGM exec. "No one can overshadow...
Tally laughs, but at least one person close to the author (he declined to be interviewed) says Harris may be willing to work with a screenwriter. Universal production exec Mary Parent chooses her words carefully: "There have not been hard conversations [about that prospect]." Don't be surprised to find Lecter eating lunch in this town again. --With reporting by Heather Won Tesoriero
After 10 years as a globe-trotting sales exec at Cisco Systems, Nuti had been touted by analysts as a potential successor to Cisco CEO John Chambers. But Nuti, 38, recently left the networking giant to become president of Symbol Technologies, the world's largest maker of bar-code scanners, based on Long Island, New York. Nuti likes Symbol's growth potential and will no longer have to commute from his Long Island home to Silicon Valley...
...Razak Yahya was abandoned after violence hit the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Defense Ministry said. Hours before the ministers were to meet, Israel sent its forces to foil what it claimed was an attempt to bring arms into Gaza by sea. Four Palestinian civilians were killed. INDIA Wanted: U.S. Exec A court in Bhopal rejected an attempt to reduce charges against a former chairman of Union Carbide arising from a 1984 industrial disaster that has killed 20,000 people. The Indian government wanted the charge of culpable homicide against Warren Anderson, a U.S. citizen, to be reduced to negligence...