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...time, what antiquities you saw and you liked, you took. Perhaps you took it for the glory of your country, or for the glory of your country estate. What you left untouched was either out of a vague sense of propriety, or for lack of logistical support, or for fear of running afoul of an unpredictable, often-distant authority...For centuries, plunder had been the rule rather than the exception, and the privileges of colonial tribute seemed to bestow similar entitlements...
Crichton also had an amazing knack for wringing emotional drama from hard science. His novels plunge fearlessly into arcane scientific realms where lesser writers would fear to tread - nanotechnology in Prey, genetics in Next. He courted controversy ardently: he wrote about sexual harassment in Disclosure and the expanding Japanese economic hegemony in Rising Sun (back in 1992 when that was an edgy topic). Most infamously he attacked the theory of global warming in State of Fear...
What is the future of risk? In the short term, an era of risk aversion is sure to continue, as financial outfits, gripped by the fear that something more will go wrong--loans not paid back, a company on the other side of a trade going bust--pull back on everything from the creation of complex securities to credit-card limits...
...Emmy Award-winning medical drama series “ER” and wrote and directed several films.Despite his popular appeal, Crichton courted controversy through his outspoken skepticism of the existence of climate change, as evinced in his lectures and his 2004 novel “State of Fear.”Ever the inquisitive student, Crichton said in a 2004 interview, “I’m very uncomfortable just accepting. There’s something in me that wants to pound the table and say, ‘That’s not true...
...little scary and I thought I was going to fill in the wrong bubble. They have pens," Braun said. "I just had an irrational fear...